Nov 12, 2021 | Business Models, Total Talent
IT talent is running at a premium. Without it, systems fall, business continuity is threatened, and those plans to go digital–to become data-driven– will inevitably get shelved or derailed. The IT skills shortage is causing businesses to put more energy...
Nov 4, 2021 | Business Models, Total Talent
Because your employees are people too As industries go, recruitment is one of those disciplines of commerce that has felt the biggest brunt of economic impacts resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic. It rewired how many people think about work. The pandemic led...
Oct 3, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
4-minute read Artificial Intelligence (i.e. intelligence demonstrated by machines rather than humans) is the most Not a new story, but a news story AI isn’t all that new: it goes way back to the 1950s when Alan Turing invested in tests based on natural language...
Sep 24, 2021 | Total Talent
4-minute read Recruitment Process Outsourcers (RPOs) are companies that outsource the recruitment function for employers. Often, RPO outsourcing partners will bring onboard a dedicated on-premise team to fulfill recruiting activities; hopefully possessing a heady...
Mar 3, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Total Talent
3-minute read Includes FIVE of the best ways to source STEM talent. You’re not alone—It’s not easy to find STEM talent Roles in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—or ‘STEM’ for short—are unquestionably the most challenging roles for organizations to...
Mar 3, 2021 | Gig Economy
4-minute read What types of things should you be reading to broaden your knowledge on business subjects with an aim of progressing your career opportunities? Update your reading list here! Ever notice the back wall? We’ve all been on a Skype, Zoom or Teams web...
Mar 3, 2021 | Total Talent
3-minute read People pay attention to brands in their work-life, not just as consumers. To attract the best talent, your brand story (powered by modern social media) can equip you with everything you need to work. Your brand is your best weapon to source talent The...
Mar 3, 2021 | Contingent Workforce Staffing, Digital Transformation, Total Talent
2-minute read Every aspect of business activity has been touched by digital transformation. What has it meant for the talent discipline so far? And what happens next? The digitalization story so far… Think back a couple of years and you’d probably not notice a great...
Mar 3, 2021 | Total Talent
4-minute read Hiring Managers are turning to Statement-of-Work contracts to maximize their job outcomes. Why? And what are the implications of adopting them in your talent strategy? Statement-of-Work contracts place a focus on work outcomes, not hours worked A...
Mar 3, 2021 | Gig Economy
3-minute read As a Talent Leader, how do you fix it? The challenge of filling vacancies with the best fit talent by harnessing ALL of the available channels to talent? Some say Total Talent Management is the solution. But if that’s the case, why are many organizations...
Mar 3, 2021 | Total Talent
3-minute read ‘Total Talent Management’ has become a buzzword in the post-lockdown economy. What exactly is it? And how does it equip your organization to create a flexible workforce? Going ‘Total’ on Talent Total Talent Management (TTM) is a human capital management...
Mar 3, 2021 | Total Talent
4-minute read The impact of the pandemic on businesses has been a newsworthy item for almost a decade. What will its legacy be for Talent Leaders? Here are five big takeaways: #1 A flexible workforce becomes business-as-usual Employing a full-time workforce was the...
Mar 3, 2021 | Contingent Workforce Staffing, Gig Economy, Total Talent
4-minute read Facts on the impacts of COVID-19 on the world of work Pandemic-related job losses around the world The 2020 pandemic is destroying livelihoods around the globe. According to the United Nations Labor Agency some 1.6 billion people employed in the informal...
Mar 3, 2021 | Gig Economy
6-minute read The advantages to your business of moving to a flexible home workforce—and the mid-term challenges facing talent leaders in 2021 How a Pandemic Changed the World of Work COVID-19 proved to be an unstoppable juggernaut in 2020 and the lock-down measures...
Mar 2, 2021 | Gig Economy
Computer coders, digital marketers, accountants, leaders of tech startups, management consultants, market researchers, analysts—just some of the roles that long term home workers hold. These are the roles of just some of the community of people I work with on a daily...
Dec 15, 2020 | Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Software, Hyper Automation
Does your website or e-commerce shop integrate with your back-office systems and processes? If not, you could be facing an unnecessarily high cost of sale. A modern ‘glueware platform’ might just be the answer. It binds your front-of-house into your back-office...
Dec 15, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
How can your humans benefit from digital assistants? In this article we explore whether businesses can live in harmony with (or, indeed, live without) robots. According to McKinsey Global Institute, ‘While less than 5 percent of all occupations can be automated...
Dec 15, 2020 | Data-Driven Culture
We live in a data driven business world. How do you tap into yours? It’s thought Jeff Bezos was the first person to use the term Innovation Value Management (IVM) to describe data as a business asset based on its contributory value. If it wasn’t Jeff, then it was...
Dec 14, 2020 | Digital Transformation
According to the latest thinking by Gartner, DevOps teams are about to get displaced in the enterprise by FUSION teams. Many firms pursuing distributed delivery are using “fusion teams” to bring together IT and business employees to develop digital solutions. As...
Dec 14, 2020 | Digital Platform
How business are set to become innovation factories in 2021 2021—The Year of Digital Platforms In its 2019 FutureScale outlook focusing on ‘Digital Supremacy’ IDC argued that operating as a software-driven “digital innovation factory” will be at the core...
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