Is the era of digital transformation over for HR professionals? For all the talk of digital tools and digitised practices, our research at Personio suggests that the majority of organisations in the UK are still lagging behind. In this article, we want to talk about the realities of digital transformation in 2023. More importantly, why it should still matter for people teams and exactly how digital transformation can (and should) start in your HR department. What Do We Mean by Digital Transformation? Digital transformation refers to an organisation’s efforts to replace manual, paper-based practices with digitised, automated processes . The intended outcome is to increase organisational effectiveness across your entire business. Diving deeper into the topic of transformation, we need to make a key distinction between two things: Digitised Ways of Working Digital Transformation For the first, think of tools like video conferencing or instant messaging at work. These feel like big changes facilitated by digital tools, but they more or less augment usual working practices (like meetings or conversations). They don’t transform, they facilitate. In digital transformation, there is a distinct shift between practices (what we are doing) to processes (how we do it). It reconsiders your organisation’s […]