Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
This week at Workday Rising we introduce our new partnership with Workday around HR 2030. Together we will be launching a series of whitepapers, tools, education programs, and advisory services to help companies of all sizes move to the new, growth-oriented agentic model of HR 2030. This work will help Workday customers and others ... Read more»
Today I’m excited to share a new additions to our HR 2030™ research: The HR Leader’s Guide to Multi-Agent AI Architecture.
Getting a multiagent HR architecture right is like conducting an orchestra. The instruments are powerful, the musicians are skilled—but without a score and a conductor, what you get isn’t music. It’s noise.
Our newest ... Read more»
Today we introduce the Jupiter release of Galileo®, the world’s AI intelligence for HR. For the firsts time companies can embed Galileo’s massive intelligence into any AI agent, unleashing its insights, data, and problem solving to every employee in your company.
This release represents two years of engineering, so I’ll walk through the new ... Read more»
Despite the talk about job losses from AI, we now know the opposite is true. The new Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections: 2025-2035. shows that we are likely to have labor shortages in the future, despite growth in AI productivity ahead.
The bottom line is this: the US labor market will only grow ... Read more»
I have spent almost 30 years studying organizations, work, jobs, and HR, and every year there’s a new theme. There was digital transformation, employee wellbeing, hybrid work, diversity and inclusion, women’s rights, and now AI. What’s the real direction here?
One might argue that employment and jobs are becoming “more human,” but that’s not true.... Read more»
Now that AI is part of our daily life, we see its impact on management. In this article I’d like to explain this important topic, and introduce you to our new research, “The Rise of the Supermanager.”
A Brief History of Management
If you read Peter Drucker and look at decades of research, ... Read more»
Workday Rising Announcements: Sana as core interface, 17 major new Superagents including “autopilots” (that we call “monitoring agents”), Sana Concierge for self-service, Sana Coach for performance coaching, massive improvements to talent acquisition suite, Workday “work intelligence” to break down jobs into tasks and help build capacity and workforce planning, a direct interface to Claude, and ... Read more»
Now that corporate AI tools from Workday, SAP, Oracle, Databricks, ServiceNow and many others have hit the market, it’s time to think about how we apply AI strategically. In this podcast I introduce the idea of Business 2030, a framework built from our HR 2030 architecture.
The simple story is as follows. While it’s ... Read more»
This week SAP explained its new Joule Work and Autonomous Enterprise strategy at its SAP Connect conference. As you’ll hear, SAP is building a solid set of AI agents to compliment and automate many of its business processes and it’s now all live.
What does this mean for HR? Well SAP customers now have lots ... Read more»
There’s a raging debate going on about something called Superintelligence: the idea of a massive AI network that knows everything and does everything for us each day.
Bill Gates, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Nick Bostrom are all talking about this, and they’re painting a future where we won’t have to ... Read more»
I’m really excited about the potential for Personal AI Agents. While GrokBot and Muse and Microsoft Autopilot (Scout) are very young (and not at all mature yet), we can now clearly see how personal AI is going to transform and disrupt our business lives.
In this podcast I explain the architecture of HR 2030, ... Read more»
Andreas DeNeve, founder of TechWolf, believes AI can “infer” your skills with great precision. After years studying this problem TechWolf has built a variety of AI language models to observe and identify your skills and tasks, which then form the basis of many decisions in business.
TechWolf monitors and indexes all your work ... Read more»
News Corp, with more than $9 billion in revenue, is one of the most important and iconic media and digital real estate companies in the world. The company owns mastheads like The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, The Times, The Sun, New York Post, California Post, Factiva, Realtor.com, and other media and digital businesses that ... Read more»
Perspectives on AI safety and alignment, and what you as a business leader need to know. I’m attaching a good set of resources for you to read, this is a fascinating issue.
Second, I introduce the idea of Business 2030 – the new, ai-powered operating model for business, which is coupled with HR 2030. ... Read more»
Today we launch the Jupiter release of Galileo, which we call “HR Intelligence for the Enterprise.”
In this podcast I explain the history of Galileo, its evolving and new technical architecture, and how AI agents can revolutionize every aspect of an employee’s work life. As you’ll hear, Galileo is now the most trusted, efficient, ... Read more»
We are all living in a world of “beta products” from AI vendors, and whether we like it or not we’re stuck with the risks. Today I weigh in with my perspectives about what’s going on and how we, as consumers and builders, need to push back on Frontier Labs and force them to “fix” ... Read more»
Guess what. There is no AI jobs apocalypse, there’s an AI-fueled labor shortage. And this means human capital and leadership strategies will be more important than ever as we transform our companies around AI.
It also means that you, as a professsional or frontline worker, are going to see yourself become Superpowered, as we ... Read more»
What do you do when the funding that anchored your HR transformation disappears unexpectedly? For Seneca Polytechnic, a public college with 44,000 students in the greater Toronto area, the answer was redesigning the transformation itself.
In this episode, we speak with Diana Mohan, Executive Director of Transformation and Change at Seneca Polytechnic — ... Read more»
The BLS forecasts an almost flat growth in the labor market in the next decade yet US GDP is expected to grow by 22-24% cumulatively. In order for this to work we are all going to be focused on “labor productivity.”
In this podcast I explain this new world of Superworkers and discuss why the ... Read more»
Rochana Golani, VP of Enablement at Databricks, is one of the most innovative and business-focused learning executives I’ve met. In this action-packed conversation Rochana shares the secrets of the company’s AI-powered dynamic training, learning, and enablement system, and how she runs internal and customer learning like a fast-growing business.
Databricks is one of the ... Read more»
Workday’s Q2 2027 earnings were a pivot point, showing how Workday has shifted to its “AI-Forward Future.” The company reported $600 Million of recurring AI revenue and a clear and confident position in the market.
While Workday’s 12.8% YTY revenue growth is nowhere near that of a Frontier Lab, my takeaway is that Workday is ... Read more»
