Imagine that you are a Vice President of HR at a large services organization, you just completed a quarterly virtual all-hands meeting with your extended department, and you followed up with a lengthy e-mail, a portion of which went like this: Thanks, all, for attending today’s quarterly meeting. As we discussed, we have several new …
The Application of AI to HCM: Benefits … and Warning Signs? Read More »
It would not be overstatement to say that the COVID pandemic and its impact on the U.S. workforce has put HR professionals on a “roller coaster” over the past 21 months – and not the fun kind! In late spring of 2021, just as COVID vaccines were becoming plentiful and the trio of horrifying metrics …
For decades, while the theory of performance management has been studied, written about, and improved “on paper,” the actual process has made little progress. Most often, it is still largely a paper-based, period-bound procedure with inputs limited to subjective observations by some combination of three sources: the employee themselves, the supervisor responsible for the review, …
AI in Performance Management: Gong Rings the Bell! Read More »
On August 26, 2020, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“the SEC”) announced its first significant set of investor disclosure requirement revisions in the past 30 years. These revisions require that investor communications such as prospectuses and annual reports include more detailed descriptions of human capital management risks and impacts to the organization. They are …
“Failing to plan … is … planning to fail.” (quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin) On December 13, 1972, Irwin Allen’s arguably most famous disaster flick, The Poseidon Adventure, debuted. Ultimately producing $125 million in box office (that was BIG back then, second only that year to The Godfather), it also produced just one Oscar win, …
The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Morning After…..Delayed Read More »
An unusual thing happened on the way to finalizing this issue of WSR: the world changed, seemingly overnight, and more fundamentally and dramatically than we’ve seen in the past 100 years. The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been profound – on employees, HR practitioners, IT professionals, businesses and the economy in general, to name …
“This virus is essentially malware aimed at the source code of humanity.” – Amy Webb, Quantitative Futurist On the last day of January, 2020, the average HR Information Technology professional in America was probably upbeat, working within a thriving economy, challenged by projects designed to harness the latest HR technology innovations, and focused on typical …
The Coronavirus Pandemic: What We’ve Learned So Far Read More »
One of my all-time favorite old movies, now 52 years old, is “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and book author Arthur C. Clarke were way ahead of their time, despite the incorrect prediction of the year when artificial intelligence would be perfected, that it could threaten to replace humans. And the satire was …
AI for Human Capital Management: “Not Ready For Prime Time?” Read More »
Point: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Must Be Part of Human Capital Management – by James Jeude ‘The purpose of Human Capital Management is to acquire, manage, and optimize the workforce that drives a modern business and powers the achievement of its mission and financial goals.’ Perhaps this sounds a little dull when reduced to this, yes? …
