Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
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»
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»
We’re excited to launch our groundbreaking research “The Rise of the Superworker,” a deep dive into the impact of AI on the future of work. As our hallmark research for the year, it defines the roadmap for leadership, technology, and HR. (Register for the launch webinar on January 28.)
The Workforce and ... Read more»
I have a holiday present for you. This week we’re publishing a detailed report with 100 high-value use-cases for Galileo™, the AI-Powered Assistant for Everything HR.
With thousands of users around the world, Galileo now has many hundreds of amazing, high-value applications discussed in this report. Each of these 100+ stories is a real-world solution ... Read more»
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»
We’ve been doing a lot of advisory work on skills and job design and now that AI tools have arrived, we’re reinventing work faster than ever. So let me give you some thoughts on this process, and you can also learn more from my recent podcast.
As you know, there are many types of ... Read more»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
This week we launch the most exciting product that we’ve ever introduced: Galileo™ Professional – Your Personal AI Assistant for HR.
Effective today, you can buy Galileo Pro for your own personal use. ($39 per month, $400 per year)
As many of you know, we spent the last year building the world’s ... Read more»
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»
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»
