Predictions AI in HR for 2025

It’s got to that time of year when we slowly come out of our Christmas slumber and see HR posts about the predictions for the following year. It got me thinking and I wondered if the predictions each year for HR would be the same. My expectation was an increase in the use of AI …

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An Organisation Design Enabler: Blurring HR and IT

A significant organisational enabler needs to occur with the co-development, crossover and blurring between HR and IT. I imagine that you are now thinking what alternative universe am I living in as this is the organisational equivalent of ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’. However, for organisations to innovate and continue to …

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What is Organisation Design?

The impact of Covid has had a huge impact on businesses, ranging from flourishing, to just about coping. This has resulted in fast changes to services, products, sales channels, processes, ways of working and has had at least an equal impact on their culture. This has resulted in a significant increase in organisation design projects. …

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Whose job is it anyway?

A diagram showing a network of people connected together

I was recently reminded of the following witticism of how an important piece of work wasn’t completed: “This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody …

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It’s the principle of it…

A lightbulb exploding into light

“It’s the principle of it!” I said when I was a teenager to my parents on the subject of my freedom to choose whatever teenage thing I wanted to do. So now many years later instead of it being my final exclamation to a lost argument it is now a driver for how I do …

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