Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Today we learned that OpenAI just signed a five-year deal with Oracle to spend $300 Billion on data centers (this is five-times Oracle’s annual revenues today), more or less doubling Oracle’s annualized revenue in one transaction. Oracle’s stock went up about 35% or more.
This $300 billion deal can now be added to more than ... Read more»
We’ve now spent years debating the use of AI for human decision-making: who to hire, who to promote, how much to pay someone, and hundreds of other things. Leaders are faced with complex, difficult decisions every day: can we trust AI to make them for us?
I’d suggest the answer is no, and that’s the ... Read more»
This week the White House issued a dynamic, pro-business AI Action Plan focused on “winning the race” for AI supremacy. As I discuss in today’s podcast, this 28 page document details the Government’s comprehensive policies to support infrastructure-building, energy production, and investments in AI across government, the military, commercial businesses, and our own careers.... Read more»
Have you ever wondered where all your personal and professional data goes? Here’s a peek into the multi-billion dollar “people data” market.
One of the most dynamic and important parts of our economy is the marketplace for people data. Every recruiter, location planner, HR executive, economist, university head, and government planner wants to know where ... Read more»
I’m continuously surprised by the hyperbolic articles and comments about AI ruining the job market, the web, or our lives. Yuval Noah Harari believes this is an existential change to humanity. Mark Benioff claims that 30-50% of Salesforce ops is now done by AI. And media sites like The Verge (Nilay Patel) worry that all ... Read more»
Imagine if you knew every task of every worker in your company. With such a database you could quickly make decisions about what to automate, where to centralize work, and what business platforms to buy.
This is the goal of Reejig’s new Work Architecture Platform, launching today. Let me explain.
Just as talent intelligence ... Read more»
This week we launched a bold new course “Reinventing L&D: Join The Revolution,” a comprehensive program filled with information and case studies on the reinvention of corporate learning. Not only is this course essential to training and HR professionals, it’s also a mandate for people with roles in sales enablement, manufacturing training, and ... Read more»
By Kathi Enderes, SVP Research and Global Industry Analyst with comments by Josh Bersin
The Workday Innovation Summit 2025 was more than an analyst meeting: it was a signal that Workday is attempting a full-scale reinvention. Under CEO Carl Eschenbach and Board Chair Aneel Bhusri, Workday is shifting from a product-centric model to an ... Read more»
All of a sudden, there’s a theme and meme that entry-level jobs are going away. Even Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently told Axios that 50% of white collar jobs may go away, leaving us with a 20% unemployment rate. (video interview below)
Okay, let me get my head screwed on straight here, ... Read more»
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»
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»
