Leading HR Through Digital Transformation

Do you lead HR? Have you lately been entrusted with the responsibility of leading the initiative of digital transformation of Human Resources at your company? Or are you aspiring for or are new to career in Human Resource? Or do you work for a startup and are ambitious to help your company ride on the wave of digital transformation?

Then grab a cuppa and take a plunge into the thoughts I share here.

How often have you felt you know what HR is, and yet it seems to remain as elusive as usual in its true meaning? How often have you decided to understand it to its core and yet failed to tap its true essence? How often you planned to commit yourself to explore the best in Human Resource and yet found yourself bogged down by its depth and vastness?

Quite often. Right?

Do not worry because we are here to explain to you the meaning of this term as well as the exponential change occurring in this field which might be helpful for you if you own a business or are a client working in an office.

Put simply, HR involves the management and development of the employees and aligning their work and accomplishments with the business goals of the organization employing appropriate strategies and now deploying the right technology.

"The biggest part of digital transformation is changing the way we think."

- Simeon Preston

A simple explanation of the term is that a company provides possible facilities and training to their employees by investing in them that helps them in getting more quality work for their organization. However, this can happen only when the company thinks and plans for beyond productivity and transactional relationship because people care for their experience more than the perks.

Learning and career development are almost two times more important to people than compensation, benefits, and work environment. - Deloitte

Strategies focused on enticing employees using monetary benefits are dated because we live in an experience economy today and companies need to uplevel their game to engage people.

Want to see how you can contribute your part as an HR professional in helping your organization gear up for the radical shift happening across industries?

Want to see how you can lead your own function and evolve it for the futuristic trends in human resources?

Want to see how you can liberate yourself from the dated systems and structures and empower your teams to be part of this transition?

Then here’s what you must acknowledge immediately:

The rule to advance your company is simple: Provide advanced technical training to your employees and keep them happy; in return, you will get the productivity you want. Address and quench their thirst for skills and knowledge and you will have created the right platform to invoke intrinsic motivation.

Fact: In the past few years, HR has entered into a new phase that involves digital transformation of HR, which uses advanced technology, platforms, and ways of working.

?Want to know what digital transformation brings? Let’s dive in.

Artificial Intelligence and Power of Analytics

For a company that is striving hard to develop itself, hiring an employee counts a lot. The reason is that an inappropriate candidate will not only waste time but will be responsible for drowning your business.

Leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence to analyze the large data sets received by a company aids the management in identifying candidates with the required domain knowledge, skillset and qualities which will help your company simplify and improve the process. Thus AI and analytics are helping to lead HR through deploying the tools of digital transformation.

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Changing Roles of Human Resource

HR is being challenged to step up its game in the new digital world. More than ever, HR leaders have been entrusted with the responsibility of facilitating this transition from the traditional to digital work culture while evolving itself with the changing roles.

According to a recent survey by staffing firm Adecco Group APOL, this year alone, 54% of companies surveyed plan on redesigning their Human Resources programs with tools like mobile apps and artificial intelligence (AI). And 51% were currently involved in preparing some form of AI technology, while 41% had developed mappable apps that employees could download onto their phones too!

While hundreds of companies offer digital solutions, it’s the responsibility of the HR Heads to study, choose and decide to deploy the right solution to digitize the tasks.

Need and Benefits of Human Capital Management Software in HR

The development of HCM software is to serve all the functions related to human resources (HR) in organizations of every sort. This particular HR program can support recruitment, interview, and hiring process, onboarding training for new employees, and workforce management but goes beyond the core HR tasks and serves as the intuitive faculty to equip you with the power of insights founded upon data bank to draw your decisions from.

This is so powerful because it reduces errors while increasing efficiency through automation! It also helps with better metrics to make HCM an essential tool for any big or small business!

While HR advances its role from administration to strategic leadership, it allows the management to save and use its time for essential purposes instead of spending hours of priceless time on tasks which can be completed easily by adopting advanced technologies like HCM.

Study the options available and make the right choice because change is a result of something more then just deploying a tool. It's all about installing the right culture! Embracing change is the difference between staying relevant and being redundant.

“Become a change-ready organization. This goes beyond being able to deploy a new tool or process — it means building a culture and communication structure that is ready, willing and able to adapt to any change. After all, the rate of change and evolution in business and technology is only going to continue and even pick up speed.” - Keith Kitani, CEO, GuideSpark?

Ranjan Kumar