Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Let’s talk about frontline workers, the most in-demand workforce in the world. These are the nurses, drivers, hotel workers, restaurant staff, airline employees, cleaners, technicians, and manufacturing workers we rely on every day. Our research shows that almost 80% of all workers (by number) take on these jobs, and their total wages are $6.5 Trillion ... Read more»
All year I’ve been studying the employment data and talking with press about the smallish impact of AI on the job market. Most of the slowdown in US jobs, from my data and conversations, has been driven by cost-cutting and general economic uncertainty, not explicit AI job replacement.
Well going into 2026 the situation is ... Read more»
The global market for professional development (training, certification, and upskilling) is over $400 billion, and almost a third of this is focused on topics and technologies that aren’t company specific. During the last three decades, much of this demand has been fulfilled by training providers: online course libraries, video libraries, simulations, expert assessments, and many ... Read more»
Today I want to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, an important day that recognizes the needs of millions of people. My perspective, as a professional entering my later years, is that many of us are likely to have disabilities over time, so the more we understand the diversity of disabilities the ... Read more»
I just finished diving into the announcements at Microsoft’s Ignite conference and comparing them to the AI blitz from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I have to say, at this point I think Microsoft is very likely to win a leadership position in the corporate market for AI, with a few big caveats.
Before I explain ... Read more»
AI platforms like Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are amazing inventions. They leverage AI models trained on enormous amounts of publicly available web data to answer questions, coach and consult with users, and behave like human-like “agents” to address a wide range of business needs.
Yet despite these capabilities, these models are “generic,” trained to ... Read more»
I just completed nearly 60,000 miles of travel across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East meeting with hundred of companies to discuss their AI strategies. While every company’s maturity is different, one thing is clear: AI as a business tool has arrived: it’s real and the use-cases are growing.
A new survey by Wharton shows ... Read more»
This is mindblowing. Today the BBC and EBU (European Broadcasting Union) published a detailed study which shows that around 45% of AI news queries to ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity produce errors.
In other words, the “dangerously self-confident” AI systems we use are quite poor at giving us good analysis of news. While the ... 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»
Just as we get used to intelligent chatbots, video generation, and AI-powered analysis, research, content generation, and simulation along comes another good idea: the “digital twin.”
A “digital twin” is an idea which actually started in the 1960s, when NASA engineers built a digital replica of Apollo 13, the space ship which suffered an oxygen ... Read more»
I have the opportunity to meet many Chief HR Officers in my travels and they are all focused on AI transformation. They’re playing a pivotal role because ultimately AI transformation is not about technology: it’s about work, jobs, and people.
Today we are publishing an interview with Patricia Frost, the CHRO of Seagate. Her ... Read more»
This week we’re at SAP Connect and spent quite a bit of time with Dan Beck, President of Successfactors, the SAP leadership team, and a wide range of SAP Successfactors customers. I have to say, this was one of the most impressive array of enterprise-class AI announcements I’ve seen to date.
SAP Intelligent Enterprise
In ... Read more»
This week the AI market changed again, as the AI Slop tidal wave continues.
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched Sora, a new video generator that allows people to create short AI video clips. Immediately following Instagram parent Meta introducing a short-form AI video generator called Vibes to compete. It seems the advertising-driven business model has ... Read more»
I’ve never seen such a massive, rapid, and optimistic investment in technology as we’ve seen with AI. 2025 capital spending by Google, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Amazon are over $900 billion, reaching almost 3% of US GDP.
Why the optimism? Businesses are convinced that AI is the productivity technology of the future, and the ... Read more»
Today, only a few weeks after acquiring Paradox and Flowise, Workday announced the acquisition of another AI company: Sana Labs (for $1.1 billion).
Sana, the company that we partner with for Galileo and Galileo Learn, is a pioneering AI-native platform designed for learning, knowledge management, and agentic applications. The Sana Agent and ... Read more»
