Author: joshbersin

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How AI Can Radically Interconnect A Business… And Also HR

AI is turning out to be pretty spectacular. Starting with ChatGPT and now moving to agents, reasoning, voice, image and video creation, the technology seems boundless. And now that Elon Musk has figured out how to connect 100,000 Nvidia chips in a high speed network, the opportunity just gets bigger.

Among all the things we’ll ... Read more»

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HiBob: A Fast-Growing New Leader In The HCM Market

The HCM market is an $11 billion market, filled with HR and payroll platforms for companies of all sizes. The well-known leaders (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, UKG, dayforce) are filled with execs who have known the space for years. And thanks to their time in the market, these companies have thousands of customers so they ... Read more»

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Wakeup Call for HR: Employees Trust AI More Than They Trust You

I’ve been a fan, advocate, and friend to HR for a long time. And in every discussion I have with HR teams, I’m impressed with the passion, commitment, and goodwill among HR teams everywhere. Yet despite our best intentions, a new survey of 851 business professionals found that “people trust AI more than they ... Read more»

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People Analytics, A Complex Domain, Is About To Be Transformed by AI.

We just completed a large study of People Analytics and the results are striking. Only 10% of companies directly correlate human capital data to business in a systemic way, with many data, technical, and operational issues in the way. Yet as our research found, AI is about to totally change this market. Here’s the story.... Read more»

Hyper-Growth Through Efficiency: Theme For The New Era

With all the mixed messages in the latest election, one rings loudly for leaders: the US Government must become more efficient. US voters did not seem impressed with the billions spent on the Chips and Infrastructure acts: they want lower taxes and more accountable government.

As Elon Musk explains, reducing costs is an exercise ... Read more»

LinkedIn Enters AI Agent Race With LinkedIn Hiring Assistant

As I discussed in the article Digital Twins, Digital Employees, Agents Everywhere, tech vendors are creating AI-powered Agents as fast as they can. And in HR, where we deal with hundreds of mundane checklist-types of processes, the opportunity for automation is everywhere.

This week, just as Microsoft launched a tools to help companies build ... Read more»

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SuccessFactors Leapfrogs HCM Capabilities: AI, Skills, Talent Intelligence, And More

This week SuccessFactors announced a vast array of new features, focused on taking the lead in the red hot HCM war against Workday, Oracle, and others. These capabilities fall into four areas, each of which bring SAP into a leading position in many areas of the global HCM market. (Product details here.)

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Guild Jumps Headfirst Into The Corporate Learning Market

Guild has been a fascinating company to watch. Founded by Rachel Romer, Guild was founded in 2015 with a mission to help companies connect their employees to high-value education programs, leveraging investments in tuition reimbursement. Today, through the acquisition of Nomadic Learning, Guild moves into the corporate L&D market directly.

Let me explain. US companies ... Read more»

Digital Twins, Digital Employees, And Agents Everywhere

I recently heard Elon Musk predict that every citizen would have multiple Optimus robots in their homes within five years. And while I often ignore his predictions because they’re exaggerated, I think he’s on to something. We are about to witness an explosion of Digital Employees in our companies, and these may be the “robots” ... Read more»

Can AI Do Performance Reviews? Rippling Says Yes.

This week Rippling, a fast-growing mid-market HR Tech company, introduced a fascinating product called Talent Signal. This product reads work output data from Github (for engineers), Salesforce and Gong (for sales people), and Zendesk (for service reps) and uses AI to analyze their performance.

How does it work? The system uses several inputs. With ... Read more»

Josh Bersin Company AI Trailblazers

Introducing The AI Trailblazers! HR Technology Outlook 2025.

Are you having a hard time figuring out which AI products are real and how they all fit together?

In our ongoing efforts to help you understand the HR Tech market, we’ve produced a report we call the AI in HR trailblazers.

This report lists selected the top 30 vendors which have developed working, ... Read more»

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ADP Lyric HCM, The Next-Gen HR Platform Many Have Waited For

In the Spring of 2018 I attended a confidential meeting in New York City to learn about a project called Lifion. ADP had hired a new team of engineers convened in a secret mission to build the “next-generation platform” for ADP’s offerings in the enterprise market.

This new system, designed ten years after the release ... Read more»