Culture, Innovation and Technology Leadership!

Innovative Disruption & Role of Leadership

We strongly believe in Innovation being the new stability in sustaining and performance in organisations. Innovation needs to be baselined at the core of a way of work and translated into a culture which breaks the shackles of traditional hierarchy ushering in creativity. A Culture, one with innovation is a sure invite to a great Talent.

Towards innovation and disruption being embraced, a leader needs to enable people who can handle changes as a part of normal, else it is not looked upon favourably so. Critical part of this culture transformation is to this day to let people know that embracing change shall only unlock the true potential for growth all around.

Design Thinking learnings encourage and enable a platform for common thinking and doing, a must for any modern organisation stepping into the future. A simple message for all is to Utilise the “time” “not in action”, in “preparation for action with innovation”. This would surely set’s the ball rolling out with a slew of products and services across the spectrum championing innovation and challenging the already set!

Culture plays an increasing role in efficiency at work

Similar to how, the success or failure of a farmer is dependent on weather, an organization's success or otherwise is dependent on its Culture, Talent availability is market driven whilst talent ability is culture driven.

Efficiency is a factor of skill will and thrill. If an employee has the necessary skill or be on the learning curve to attain that skill and is powered by an indomitable will with enough joy and happiness at work, she would transform the place of work in to joy at work and we then witness efficiency explosion. However, this being a sustained effort, today's leaders’ need to augment experiences and align purpose to be able to achieve necessary productivity. "The strongest cultures are those that have a workforce who exchange knowledge and become collectively better and wise". "Culture is the glue that binds the skill will and thrill together in a sustained manner".

Autonomy, variety in work, appreciation and a provision for constant social interactions are a sure-fire way to build that culture which enthrals and brings in the much-desired culture. What I always state is for every Happiness created per hour of work, efficiencies also peak.

Technology and Talent Management to Talent Delight!

Technology play in Talent Management either leads to just managing talent effectively or creating Talent Delight by ways of real transformation unleashing value and performance. For an organisation to command being unique, standing and sustaining the competitive advantage technology has a huge say in the coming days and years. Today decisions made on Talent and ability of organisations to deploy Talent at n=1 mode to unlock value is and will only be possible with technology delighting talent decisions.

Usage of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning has put the intelligence on finger tips to be able to make that steady qualitative and right timed decisions which in turn makes talent deployability more a science. To have great talent is one and to be able to deploy that talent at the right time to bring is sustained value, is today, no more a dream but a technology reality making it possible.

Talent Delight lifecycles as I prefer to call it has moved away from traditional succession planning to success planning, great talent available with the right skill. However, the journey in creating unique individual experiences to make meaning out of tech usage is still some way to go given that the platforms and systems available today are still configured at best to serve the group and not the individual in managing talent lifecycles. Per Sierra Cedar’s 2018-19 HR Systems survey report Talent Management applications experience the highest percentage of functionality gaps and the lowest vendor UX ratings for this HR application area. This certainly shall change into more robust systems enabling that n=1 environment ushering in a change across the board.