Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
The skills intelligence and skills inference market is enormous. Originally pioneered by companies like Eightfold and LinkedIn, early AI companies tried to “infer” skills through your experience, job history, education, and what you did at work. It was an enormous innovation ten years ago and gave birth to companies like Skyhive, Draup, Techwolf, and stalwart ... Read more»
When Microsoft announced its Voluntary Exit Offer last week, the headlines were immediate. “Microsoft Lays Off 60,000.” “Tech Giant Cuts Workforce.” “AI Takes Another Victim.” Quickly Instagram and TikTok were filled with angry videos: “another big company eliminates workers with AI.”
Well I hate to tell you, this is not what happened.
I spoke ... Read more»
I just finished a month of meetings with Workday, SAP, and many vendors at the Unleash conference so I want to give you an update on the HCM market. This is a long article but worth the read.
The Big Story: HCM is Hot, Foundational Platform for AI
After four years getting slammed by Wall ... Read more»
There’s a big flurry of interest in Job-Task Analysis (an old discipline) to break down jobs into tasks, categorize and inventory these tasks, and then “Voila,” you can build AI agents to automate these tasks.
It sounds like a great idea. So data providers like Lightcast, Draup, SAP (TechWolf), Reejig, and Workday (using Stanford data) ... Read more»
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»
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»
More than 70% of US workers are frontline workers and most of our workforce is worried about AI. How do we as a country and we as employers help our people reskill, upskill, and educate themselves as adults?
Well Guild, which started its life as a tuition reimbursement management company, has pioneered a new ... Read more»
Vijay Swaminathan, co-founder and CEO of Draup, believes the future of workforce planning is not about studying people; it’s about studying work itself. After nearly a decade pioneering talent intelligence, Draup has pivoted toward the most urgent question every enterprise faces: how do you redesign work for the age of AI? In this ... Read more»
As I discuss in this week’s article, Microsoft introduced a “voluntary exit offer” that teaches us some lessons in modern management. It’s not a layoff by any means, despite the flurry of headlines. Listen to me explain why these kinds of programs are part of what I consider “the new model of ... Read more»
The HCM (human capital management) market is being reinvented by AI. In this podcast I explain why and how HCM may become the center of the corporate AI revolution.
Why? There are many reasons, but perhaps the biggest is that AI agents are like people, and the HCM platform will help us manage, optimize, train, ... Read more»
Today I summarize my keynote from Unleash Paris this week, where I draw a line between generative AI’s birth in November of 2022 and the Railroad Era of 1873. Not only are the parallels uncannily similar, it points out that AI’s takeover of our economy has impacted employment, politics, and our teetering stock and bond ... Read more»
This week we launch our new book “Superpowered, how AI Unlocks The Power of People, Leadership and Teams. Based on more than 100 case studies and years of research on organizations and careers, this book sets the stage for your future as a Superworker, Supermanager, or Supercompany.
Whether you’re a human resources professional, a ... Read more»
There’s a big flurry of interest in Job-Task Analysis (an old discipline) to break down jobs into tasks, categorize and inventory these tasks, and then “Voila,” you can build AI agents to automate these tasks.
It sounds like a great idea. So data providers like Lightcast, Draup, SAP (TechWolf), Reejig, and Workday (using Stanford data) ... Read more»
Today, after in-depth meetings with Workday, SAP, UKG, Dayforce, Hibob, Gloat, and others, I’m ready to say “the SaaSPocalypse is over.” HCM is poised for massive growth ahead.
And there’s more – I describe the five new “redefining” features of Agentic HCM (Human Capital Management) platforms and why this may unlock a $10 Billion new ... 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»
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»
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»
