Opinion

Opinion

• Your competitors are amassing armies of recruiting chatbots

  AI is the new digital divide. Bots screen résumés in a fraction of the time, and emotion analytics weeds out corporate killjoys. So why rely on humans to make hiring decisions?  Continue Reading

• What the Hawthorne effect reveals about employee experience

  The phenomenon of the Hawthorne effect is used to support ideas about employee needs, including your potential HR technology choices. Here's why you should be wary of that.  Continue Reading

• How will AI in HR be a game-changer?

  Josh Bersin, founder and principal of Bersin by Deloitte Consulting, explains how AI-based tools are transforming HR processes, enabling better people decisions and eliminating human bias.  Continue Reading

• HR metrics require much more than data

  Data doesn't tell the whole story about employee performance and retention, but more companies plan to use workforce analytics tools to aid their staffing decisions.  Continue Reading

• Recruitment management system + alien life doesn't equal intelligent hiring

  What's a smaller needle in the haystack, finding the best job candidate or discovering what planet hosts intelligent life? A theory on the use of data is argued and debunked.  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and mini-videos signal changes in talent management tools

  Mini-videos, machine learning and blockchain could transform talent management in areas such as training, performance management and recruitment and raise the profile of HR.  Continue Reading

• Workforce analytics software builds stronger ties to business outcomes

  With data analytics tools, HR can measure aspects such as employee engagement and turnover of staff and use the results to become more strategic and essential to the business.  Continue Reading

• Align employee performance and strategic workforce planning

  New performance management tools can better connect employees to an organization's overall objectives, provide data for workforce analytics and improve operational excellence.  Continue Reading

• HCM tools best as an enabler of human interaction

  For human capital management to truly live up to its name, software buyers must make sure their old-school core HR functions work well with trendy talent management suites.  Continue Reading

• Financials can boost HR metrics and analytics

  Companies such as ServiceSource, Morgan Stanley and Wal-Mart are integrating financials with HR to determine talent strategies that produce the best ROI.  Continue Reading

• How HR can use the customer 360-degree view concept

  More and more, HR is being told to treat employees like customers. Two experts suggest how you can make that happen by applying customer 360-degree view research tactics.  Continue Reading

• Oracle PeopleSoft: Is it time for customers to move on?

  If Release 9.2 is the last version of PeopleSoft, customers must decide whether to stay with Oracle or move to a competing cloud alternative.  Continue Reading

• Can a big data project help repair broken HCM insights?

  The time is now for HR leaders to initiate big data projects that can provide better insight into a company's human capital management processes - while maintaining data privacy and protection.  Continue Reading

• Sierra-Cedar’s HR technology roadmap to data-driven decision making

  A trio of integrated workforce management, talent management and business intelligence software differentiates top performers in consulting company’s survey.  Continue Reading

• Success lies in strategic talent management, not software

  Companies invest time and money in employees, and they invest in software to manage them. What's not clear is whether technology has really helped improve business.  Continue Reading