Testing Times: UAT, Test, Pilot and Parallel Run
In this 12-part series, Kate Wadia – Managing Director at Phase 3 Consulting – guides the HR professional through how to navigate, succeed and lead with HR tech project-work. From the inception of the business case to the handover into BAU, we’ll follow an indicative project timeframe to explain the way and the why of a project […]
Continuing conversations at the CIPD: dialogue with the data
There are continuing conversations in HR, about data, people analytics, AI and the data and insights we should be deriving. I often wonder whether these are the right conversations. This month I found some of those right conversations at the CIPD Analytics Conference #HRAnalytics17, chaired by Mark Lawrence. Mark sits on the Analytics Advisory Board […]
Powering the internal comms of the future
Employee engagement is notoriously hard to measure. Is it how many people respond to your company-wide email requesting ideas for the next charity event? Or how many read your article posted on the intranet system? Or the amount of people you count walking out of the office with a smile on their face? This in […]
HR technology implementation: the Building Blocks
In this 12-part series, Kate Wadia – Managing Director at Phase 3 Consulting – guides the HR professional through how to navigate, succeed and lead with HR tech project-work. From the inception of the business case to the handover into BAU, we’ll follow an indicative project timeframe to explain the way and the why of a project […]
How big data can eliminate bias and elitism in candidate selection
Studies by the Social Mobility Commission have shown that the largest industries are failing to hire talented youngsters from less advantaged backgrounds because they recruit from a small pool of elite universities and hire those who fit in with the culture – still favouring middle- and higher-income candidates who come from a handful the country’s […]
The ‘datafication’ of HR – how will this impact reward?
To date, those of you who have adopted compensation management technology have probably done so to gain operational efficiency. Reducing time spent on repetitive administrative tasks such as data calibration and spreadsheet reconciliation, whilst benefiting from improved data integrity and security together with a clear audit trail, have been the key buying reasons to date. […]
Leadership development challenge: implementing AI in the workplace
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) enters the workplace, business leaders need new skills to rise to the challenges and opportunities presented by this disruptive new technology. Task automation is a key area for AI applications. Roles traditionally thought of as requiring a high level human intellect are now being automated. The legal profession is seeing such […]
Digital understanding: “This is not optional. We need to own it.”
HRZone reports on the key takeaways from Baroness Martha Lane Fox’s keynote at the CIPD Annual Conference 2017 in Manchester in November 2017. In her opening keynote, Martha Lane Fox spoke about her profound journey through digital. In 1997, when she cofounded lastminute.com she was dealing with a general consensus among society that the internet was […]
“People analytics teams must balance partnerships with technology vendors and with HRBPs.”
Nicky Clement, VP HR, Organisation Effectiveness & People Analytics at Unilever, spoke at the CIPD’s annual conference about making your people analytics function successful. She said that employees are a ‘strong base’ for data-driven organisations, because “we don’t have to buy datasets on customers. We have the data there. We can survey employees and ask […]
Sorting the Stakeholders: Who is Who in HR Tech
In our 12-part series, Kate Wadia – Managing Director at Phase 3 Consulting – guides the HR professional through how to navigate, succeed and lead with HR tech project-work. From the inception of the business case to the handover into BAU, we’ll follow an indicative project timeframe to explain the way and the why of a project […]
Employee lifecycle: get deeper insight by aligning analytics initiatives
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate to be speaking in front of a room of high-level corporate executives and decision-makers, curious to find out more about the world of HR Analytics. Being a “People Analyst”, I saw an opportunity to gain some interesting data. Before introducing myself, and through a simple show of hands, I […]
“Companies will need to work harder to retain high performers.”
Fosway Group, Europe’s leading HR and learning analyst, recently appointed Carole Laithwaite as its Chief Operating Officer. With a wealth of experience in operational leadership and business strategy, Carole joins the company to focus on its HR and learning practices and support its longer-term mission. Here she gives insight on Fosway’s expertise in next gen […]
This is the year of people analytics! Again…
For the past several years, numerous articles and predictions have promised that this is going to be the breakthrough year for People Analytics (a.k.a., HR Analytics, Talent Analytics), with the assurance of rapid growth, competitive advantage, and value falling from the sky. Has it happened? For many organizations, it’s never lived up to the hype. Keep […]
How to close the engineering skills gap
Companies need to show more imagination when it comes to attracting new talent, says Matthew Aldridge, director of igus UK, the leading manufacturer of energy chains and polymer bearings. The engineering and manufacturing sector has long suffered from crippling skill shortages, and the problem appears to be getting worse. Statistics from trade body Engineering UK […]
Reskilling for the age of digital work: what do we need from a modern employee?
Virtually every industry is being impacted by the rise in automation and an increased reliance on data analytics. As a result, businesses are being forced to rethink the way they work and turn to new technologies to remain successful. One consequence of this trend is that technology is poised to take the place of humans […]
Why it’s time to scale your social calendar for talent acquisition
The Plainspeak Analyst is Katherine Jones, Partner and Director of Talent Research at Mercer, the world’s largest human resources consulting firm. Her job is to design and deliver insight research and services to Mercer’s global clients. She was previously VP, Human Capital Management Technology Research at Bersin by Deloitte. She has a PhD in Curriculum […]
HR past and future: time-travelling at HR Tech World in Amsterdam
We are all obsessed by the future, but get stuck in the past and can’t move forwards. Our obsession with the future is generally thought to be a pretty good thing, but getting stuck in the past is seen as something to be avoided at all costs. Attending industry events gives us space to notice […]
When culture kills the killer app
This article was co-authored by Helen Rosethorn, Partner, Practice Leader – Culture, Capability & Engagement, London, and Josh Feldmeth, Senior Partner, New York, at brand marketing consultancy Prophet. Every industry has been disrupted by a technology-enabled alternative promising faster delivery, lower costs, and delightfully better user experiences. In many sectors, these former disruptors now occupy […]
“For the human operating system, downtime is a feature, not a bug,” says Arianna Huffington
HRZone spoke to Arianna Huffington before her keynote at Unleash 2017 (formerly known as HR Tech World) in Amsterdam in October 2017. Arianna Huffington is not against transformative technologies but thinks people should set boundaries to retain their humanity. After all, we’ve done it before. Why can’t we do it again? “When electricity was invented, people […]
Book review: The Power of People, by Jonathan Ferrar, Nigel Guenole & Sheri Feinzig
HRZone has a range of books available for review. If you would like to receive one of our business books, free of charge, please contact the editor on editor at hrzone dot com and we can send you a list of what’s available. In return, we ask for a 400-700 word review of the book, […]
