Author: joshbersin

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»

SuccessFactors

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.)

As ... Read more»

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»

ADP Lyric HCM

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»

Workday plus Galileo

Galileo™ Selected As Workday Innovation Partner

This week at Workday Rising we’re announcing our new partnership with Workday. As one of the selected Workday Innovation Partners, we are developing a deep integration between Galileo and Workday.

Galileo, as many of you know, is “Your Essential AI Assistant for Everything HR.” Filled with 25+ years of research, benchmarks, ... Read more»

What Is Workday Illuminate?

Today Workday introduced Workday Illuminate, the new brand name for Workday AI. While the name is not important, this new brand demonstrates a shift from AI “dazzlers” to AI “capabilities” within the entire Workday platform. In other words, Workday has now built an underlying AI infrastructure that can manifest solutions in hundreds of ways.... Read more»

Growthspace

Growthspace: A Pioneer In Precision Skills Development

As most of you know, developing business skills takes time. You have to ask people questions, take a few courses, and learn from your mistakes. If you’re a software engineer, this means writing buggy code. But if you’re a sales rep or a manager, it could mean trouble: losing deals, alienating people, and possibly being ... Read more»

Agentic AI - New AI Employees

AI Agents, The New Workforce We’re Not Quite Ready For (Agentic AI)

The Agents are coming, the Agents are coming.

If you follow the AI tech market you know there’s a lot of talk about “Agentic AI.” In other words, our friendly AI assistants are starting to feel more empowered. Instead of just answering questions and composing poetry, they’re now able to “do things” on ... Read more»

Cornerstone Galaxy: Acquisition Of SkyHive Could Pay Off

Cornerstone spent the last decade acquiring LMS and talent software companies, all in a goal to build an integrated skills platform. Finally, after years of hard work and integration, the company introduces Galaxy, an advanced offering in the world of AI-powered HR systems.

Before I explain Galaxy, the history is important. Founded in 1999, ... Read more»

With Thoughtful Design And Culture, Dropbox Proves Remote Work Is A Winner

One of the most interesting tech companies we’ve studied is Dropbox, a $7 billion market cap rocket ship generating more than $2.5 billion in revenue. This kind of company, which sells a platform that competes with Microsoft, Google, and other major players, lives in a world of brutal competition: competition for product leadership, sales deals, ... Read more»