Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
The explosive AI market is changing everything, and even Handshake, the leader in university recruiting and early career growth, is taking the bait. Today Handshake acquired Uplimit, one of the pioneers in AI-native corporate learning, with a goal of building a massive AI skills academy and job network for young workers.
I talked ... Read more»
While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which went through a similar shift in the 1990s.
Podcast here: Is AI Becoming A Commodity? Or Is it Just A Normal Enterprise Technology like other?... Read more»
This week we welcome 450 senior HR leaders to our fifth annual Irresistible Conference at the beautiful USC campus in Los Angeles. I want to highlight the big announcements we’re making.
First, the launch of The Josh Bersin Institute and the Global HR Excellence Certification Program.
Yes, we’ve taken all our research, case studies, ... Read more»
One of the most interesting (and disruptive) aspects to enterprise AI is the simple fact that AI Agents and Superagents (read our HR 2030 architecture for more) are not “systems” or applications in the traditional sense. They are “your systems” that learn, grow, and “become your company.”
In other words, an AI Agent that does ... Read more»
Let me pose a controversial (but logical) premise: the price we pay for AI tools is going to start to skyrocket. And this price increase is going to have some very disruptive effects.
First, why will AI prices likely rise?
It’s pretty simple: this is extremely expensive technology to deliver. Already,spending on data centers, ... Read more»
Last week SAP launched one of the most sweeping announcements in years – a complete enterprise AI architecture that Christian Klein, the CEO, claims makes SAP an AI company at its core. It’s called The Autonomous Enterprise.
“The Autonomous Enterprise includes a unified AI platform for building, contextualizing and governing agents, an autonomous suite
ServiceNow just unleashed a barrage of announcements that set the stage for its goal: doubling revenue to $30 billion in the next four years. In a nutshell, they want to own the management tools, security, and front door to every AI agent in your company. And they’re going to ask you to pay for ... Read more»
Workday, a pioneer in enterprise applications for finance and HR, has struggled to reinvent itself in the age of AI. This week, in a compelling and integrated way, the company unveiled a clear strategy for the future, leveraging its almost $3 billion of acquisitions (HiredScore, Evisort, Paradox, Sana), a new management team, and a repositioning ... Read more»
As OpenAI and Anthropic talk about going public, everyone is fascinated. These two companies with battling CEOs make up the drama of today’s AI industry. And as more information comes out from their public offering, everyone is wondering how they will compete with each other. (Listen to my latest podcast on culture in AI companies... Read more»
As AI expands its role all over our companies, a big question comes up: What will AI Agents do to HR and all our human capital practices?
One could imagine the HR department “going away” or being replaced by agents, and managers interacting with this AI Agent Cloud for hiring, pay, promotion, hourly scheduling, and ... Read more»
This week Gloat, a pioneer in skills intelligence and talent marketplace, launched a bold entry into the world of AI Agents for HR. It’s an interesting move, demonstrating how competition for core HR technology has emerged.
Simply explained, Gloat is offering a toolset (Gloat Agentic HR) which uses all the business rules and security you ... Read more»
This week Workday announced a bold and ambitious AI strategy around its new technology platform Sana. We have been partners and users of Sana for three years, so much of this discussion is also based on our own experience building our HR Superagent Galileo, which runs on Sana.
Who Is Sana?
First, it’s important ... Read more»
Last week Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block Inc. (makers of Square and CashApp) loudly announced plans to layoff 40% of its 10,000+ employees (4,000) and replace them with AI. The announcement was simple and there were few specifics about how this is going to take place.
LinkedIn shows around 13,000 employees with most in engineering, ... Read more»
Everywhere I go people talk about reskilling, upskilling, and accelerating the adoption of AI. This week I met with more than 200 CHRO’s in India and Singapore and the #1 topic was AI readiness: how can we accelerate AI fluency and capability in all areas of the company?
Well we’ve been studying corporate training for ... Read more»
Human Resources (HR) has always struggled with two identities. Is HR a strategic partner, a driver of organizational value and inspired human capital growth? Or is it an administrative function, acting as the “company police,” here to enforce rules, policies, legal, and labor regulations?
The first is a value creator and demands human skills; the ... Read more»
