Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
I adore the human resources profession. These folks are responsible for hiring, development, leadership development, and some of the most important issues in business. And despite the history of HR being considered a compliance function, the role is more important than ever. CHRO salaries, for example, have increased at 5-times the rate of CEO pay ... Read more»
Today we are making two momentous announcements about Galileo®, both focused on making Galileo available “in your flow of work.”
First, we are announcing the deep integration of Galileo into the ServiceNow AI platform, known as Now Assist.
This means any user of Now Assist can ask questions about HR, leadership, ... Read more»
I just spent a week in London meeting with several dozen companies and most of the discussion was about AI. The overwhelming majority of the conversations were about how companies are struggling, pushing, and agitating about the implications of AI, both within HR and within their teams.
Coming from the CEO and CFO, HR team ... Read more»
Today Microsoft announced a wide range of Copilot features, many focused on Agents (research agent and analyst agent, agent development and management tools, and personal productivity features).
But one feature set that is significant to HR is Microsoft’s new skills infrastructure: a skills-inference agent (and a skills management agent) that lets companies identify ... Read more»
As many of you learn about AI and how to redesign your work, the “Superworker” story is now becoming real. In addition to dozens of AI case studies available in Galileo®, we just published the following explainer video to help you understand the four-stages of AI automation. Share with your teams and ... Read more»
Degreed is one of the most interesting business stories in the HR tech space. Founded in 2012, the company pioneered the idea of a Learning Experience Platform (LXP) to let anyone find and consume any form of learning. The original vision, which was well ahead of its time, was to democratize content beyond the clunky ... Read more»
Introducing the Mercury release of Galileo™, the world’s most powerful AI agent for HR. This upgrade adds reasoning power and new data to Galileo, increasing its power by an order of magnitude. Galileo is more than an AI assistant: it has become a consultant, now delivering world-class benchmarking and talent intelligence at your fingertips.... Read more»
Over the last six months we’ve seen much evidence of a white-collar recession. Employees have stopped changing jobs, wage growth is slowing, and research shows that workers with college degrees are the least “in-demand” in the market.
Note this new research by ADP which shows that jobs requiring advanced degrees (“extensive preparation”) are ... Read more»
Let me posit an important question: if your CEO or CFO asks you to use AI to improve productivity, what would you do?
Would you use the “chainsaw” model of efficiency and lay off 10% of the employees? Or would you thoughtfully redesign jobs around AI?
This week I talked with dozens of companies ... Read more»
The $360 billion corporate learning industry has entered a revolution, and we invite you to join us on this journey. Today we launch our 2025 Corporate Learning In The Age of AI Study, and we encourage you to participate.
Why L&D Reinvention Is So Urgent
Corporate learning is a massive imperative: companies spend ... Read more»
As we discuss in The Rise of the Superworker, we’ve entered a period of productivity-led growth in business. The economy is slowing (US consumer sentiment plummeted and GDP growth in the EU and China has slowed), expectations for AI are high, and CEOs are looking to redesign operating models.
Core to this ... Read more»
Today we introduce a groundbreaking research on the role of the Chief Human Resources Officer.
Coupled with this research we’re launching a new service, CHRO Insights™, to support CHROs and aspiring CHROs around the world.
The Rapid Acceleration of The CHRO Role
The CHRO has become one of the most critical jobs in business. ... Read more»
As AI Agents proliferate through our companies, Workday wants to make your life easier: the Workday Agent System of Record. This new toolset lets companies register, manage, provision, control, and train AI agents throughout the enterprise. It’s like a workforce management system for our “digital employees.”
Consider how the landscape is changing. Companies are ... Read more»
There has been a lot of debate about whether this multi-billion dollar investment in AI is going to pay off. Well in HR alone, I’m here to report that the answer is YES.
This week Jim Cramer, the most famous Wall Street TV personality and hedge-fund manager, actually brought it out.
In Cramer’s interview ... Read more»
As the WSJ has reported extensively, companies like Harley Davidson, Tractor Supply, Walmart, and McDonalds are publicly pulling back on DEI programs, largely under pressure by political activists. Fueled by the supreme court’s striking down of affirmative action in 2023, there is a political movement to dismantle the “social justice” movement that took hold ... Read more»