Written by: Mike Ettling - sap.com A better-prepared workforce delivers better results. And companies with above-average revenue growth are more likely to provide employees with advanced training and development programs, as well as give their workers access to the information they need to not just get...
Written by: Lynda Gratton - hrmagazine.co.uk It is striking how much I’m hearing about artificial intelligence (AI). From panel debates at Davos to news about the use of robots in healthcare, it seems that AI is finally breaking into the world of work. Perhaps it is...
By Andy Campbell - diginomica.com SUMMARY: Improved employee engagement delivers value to the overall business, but employee productivity remains significantly low in many developed nations. Most organisations recognise the impact and value that improved employee engagement delivers to the overall business. But while this should incite companies...
Written by: Jacob Morgan Recently Deloitte released their report on Human Capital Trends for 2015, which explores everything from the on-demand workforce to reinventing HR to data and analytics to much more. If you have a few minutes I highly recommend you check it out. I recently...
Written by: Grace Lewis - cipd.co.uk Unleash your inner HR business partner and embrace long-term planning It wasn’t long ago, in a recent edition of People Management magazine, that we were debating whether the HR business partner model was a dying breed. But at a recent CIPD...
Written by: Janine Milne- diginomica.com SUMMARY: Monitise is a familiar story – a fast growing business, expanding rapidly overseas whose internal systems cannot match the same pace of change as the business. A cloud-based HR strategy is helping address those challenges. Bruce King, SVP group HR at mobile technology firm...
Written by: Nick Martindale - hrmagazine.co.uk Enterprise social networks (ESNs) are becoming increasingly popular among larger organisations, but how can HR encourage employees to engage with them? In an era where people of all ages are increasingly comfortable with the concept of social networking – using sites...
By Meghan M. Biro - forbes.com Imagine a big desk. It’s loaded with two huge stacks of work, one on the left side, one on the right. Left side: the administrative pile, dense with data — numbers, stats, metrics, talent analytics. Right side: the strategic...
Will HR vendors embrace contingent, temporary and independent workers? HR systems have grudgingly supported this biggest growing part of the workforce but it has mostly been a bolt-on, incremental approach to the issue....
By Arvind Hickman - hrmagazine.co.uk HR should not lose sight of its role to represent employees in spite of efforts to become more strategic and business-oriented, a panel of experts has warned. In a joint Work Foundation and Prospect event on the contemporary role of HR, the...