In this expert interview David Green speaks to Vipin Sharma, Head HR Strategy, Analytics & HR Innovation Labs at Tata Steel, to understand how his team is tackling the challenge of creating a data driven culture in HR. Their focus on simultaneously democratising access to people data for decision making and upskilling HRBPs and the wider HR community has stood them in good stead to address important business challenges with people analytics, including bias in performance management, which we discuss here also.
Read MoreThe myriad of 2022 predictions are supremely useful for giving HR leaders a sense check, to ensure that their investments are targeting the most important elements for their function to thrive in the digital age. Similarly, HR professionals can use predictions to target their learning and development goals for the coming year, enabling them to keep a pulse on “what’s hot” in the field. In this blog, we take a look at a handful of HR’s 2022 prediction blogs and convert these insights into action, by guiding HR leaders to insights and models that can help inform their strategy in 2022, and HR professionals to resources to upskill in these areas.
Read MoreDavid provides his reflections on the recent Wharton People Analytics Conference in Philadelphia, which featured the likes of Richard Thaler, Allyson Felix, Marcus Buckingham and Deloitte's CEO Cathy Engelbert along with the Wharton team of Adam Grant, Cade Massey and Laura Zarrow. The topics covered in Philadelphia were diverse with three themes coming to the fore: Diversity and Inclusion, Organisational Network Analysis and Nudges.
Read MoreIn his collection of articles for March, David brings together a host of examples of how people analytics and data has become a core foundation of the reimagination of HR. There are the latest reports from IBM (on the impact of AI on D&I), McKinsey/MIT (on the revolution in performance management) and myHRfuture (on the HR Skills for the Future). The article of the month comes from Dave Ulrich, and there are other articles from the likes of Stacia Garr, Josh Bersin, Jordan Pettman, Dawn Klinghoffer, Katarina Berg and a must-watch video from Andy Spence on the role of Blockchain in HR.
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