If your firm competes against serial innovation and top-market-cap firms like Amazon, Apple, and Google, you already know that you must match their “speed of innovation.” But you might not realize that to reach that speed, you also need “a future-acting workforce” in order to implement the new ideas generated …
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The Future Of Recruiting Is An Internal Talent Consulting Group, As Technology Handles Daily Recruiting Tasks
As seen on ERE Media (May 8, 2017). 8 Things To Do When You Want Recruiting To Be More Strategic The march of technology is already underway in recruiting. And that means that most day-to-day recruiting activities will become transactions, and that means that most sourcing, job matching, and candidate …
Read More »Slides – Should You Hire An Employee, A Robot Or An Algorithm?
Welcome to Human & Robot Resources (HRR) where robots are part of the workforce plan
Read More »In An Interconnected Digital Business World … Why Is Recruiting Still An Island?
As seen on ERE Media A “think piece” designed to stimulate your thinking about strategic recruiting Corporate recruiting, unfortunately, operates as if it were an island. Recruiting can, justifiably, be accused of acting as if it is an autonomous corporate entity because it seldom has any formal processes for sharing …
Read More »The Future Of Predictive Analytics – The Next Generation of Talent Metrics to Consider
A comprehensive list of current and future predictive talent metrics The use of predictive analytics is a hot issue and a developing trend in talent management. But unfortunately as a longtime thought leader in the area, most of the current prediction efforts are extremely shallow. And as a result, they …
Read More »Talent Strategies for a Turbulent VUCA World — Shifting to an Adaptive Approach
It’s not the big that eat the small. It’s the fast that eat the slow! –-Author Jason Jennings If the rate of change inside your firm is slower than the rate of change occurring outside your firm, your end is in sight. –-Jack Welch’s philosophy Even the most optimistic business …
Read More »The Top 30 Problems With Assessing Organizational Fit – And How It Can Hurt Your Firm
What could be simpler than assessing "the fit" of a candidate?
Read More »A Contingent Workforce Strategy as an Effective Part of Workforce Planning
During economic downturns CEOs and CFOs come to HR looking for ways to cut labor costs. As sales go down, labor costs must also go down proportionately. Unfortunately, HR’s responses to requests for labor cost reductions frequently come well after they can have a real impact. But HR must learn …
Read More »Why Workforce Planning Fails, Part 2
Last week, we took an overview of the eight catastrophic failures that have occurred in workforce planning in the past, looking at the areas where workforce planners had gotten into trouble. This week we’ll take a more detailed look at some very specific reasons why workforce plans fail. I have …
Read More »Before You Try It, Understand Why Workforce Planning Fails
Workforce planning was one of the hottest areas within HR during the 1980s. Now it’s back on top of the hot HR issues list. Why is workforce planning a burning HR issue again? There are four basic driving factors: A shortage of talent. No one wants to go through the rapid …
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