HCM World: Transforming HR With Technology

Last week I had the pleasure to attend and moderate a panel at the inaugural Oracle HCM World event in Las Vegas. (That is a pic of me on the right warming up the crowd prior to the start of the panel with a joke involving Larry Bird and Larry Ellison).

The panel was titled 'Modern HR Transformations' and focused on some of the many ways that the HR function, and even the organization overall, is being impacted, enabled, and transformed today, with much of that transformation being driven by advances in technology. Whether it is through leveraging a modern and integrated technology approach to Talent Management, the increased use of data and analytics to inform talent and people decisions, or even to predict the most likely business outcomes from a range of talent decisions, or even some more far-out applications of wildly innovative technologies like wearable computing or the Internet of Things - there is little doubt the next era of business (and HR), will be defined in many ways by the use and application of new technology.

It was a really engaging and lively discussion that was highlighted by the panelists, (Holger Mueller of Constellation Group, Debbie Damesek of Credit Suisse, and Maureen Brosnan and Anthony Abbatiello, both from Accenture), sharing of both the big-picture trends and imperatives shaping HR and organizations, as well as their specific and real-world experiences, successes, and challenges with large-scale HR transformation projects. It's kind of tough for me to recap the point-by-point of the session, (since I was kind of busy, you know, running the panel and keeping one eye on the clock, one eye on the audience, and one eye on the panelist), so I thought I would simply share a really cool resource on HR Transformations and the HR Technology role in them that has been put together by the folks at Accenture and Oracle.

The free E-book, titled: Accenture and Oracle: The Future of HR—Five Technology Imperatives, digs into the need for HR to change to better enable the organization to compete in today's faster, more complex business environment, looks at some of the external forces that are driving and influencing this new paradigm, and then examines some of the HR technology challenges and opportunities that HR and organizations can and are utilizing to help find and attract talent, leverage data more fully in talent processes, and deliver both a set of compelling career experiences to individuals and provide the organization the talent and capability it needs to meet its business objectives. And the E-book builds on the prior research on 'The Future of HR' that has been done at Accenture as well.

Above, I have cribbed just one snippet from the E-book to give you a feel for the style and content - I think you will find it an informative and educational resources, and a good summary as well of much of was shared and talked about at Oracle HCM World, both in the panel I was a part of, and the event overall.

Many thanks to the folks at Oracle for allowing me to be a part of Oracle HCM World!