November 2007


 

Jim Holincheck, Gartner Group
-         Demographics shifts happening
– “Baby Boomers” near retirement
– `Digital natives` enter workforce
— 48% of teens visit social networking sites at least daily
— 55 % have created a personal profile on-line
– Cultural, Ethnic diversity rises
- Globalization: Workforce options expand
– Service Industrialization
– Regional Economic Clusters
– Into untapped markets
– Into reaching talents
- Future Worker 2015: Individualizing the Appeal
– potentially 20 organizations working for during the working life
– from mass customization into extreme individualization
– strategic planning assumption 90% of the tools will be tailored
- HCM Drivers
– Attract/Retain talent
– Develop next gen leaders
– pay for performance
– link HCM to Bus Results
- Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems Landscape
– Integrated Talent Management talked around 2003/04
— the first results published 2005
-.web 2.0 and the “Next Generation Web”
– technology
— principle: WOA, data-driven, syndicated content, rich semantics, mashable, rich client, build by example, aspects: architecture & platforms
– community:
— principles: participation, collaboration, social, transparent
– business:
— principles: long-tail, continuous innovation, collaborative offerings, open business models
— aspects: “ecosystem”, process,value
-         non-routine behaviours
– discover
— simulation, communications, search, predictive analytics
– innovate
— automatic contextual search, agents, professional communities
– team
— social software, expertise location, social network analytics
– lead
— web conferencing, group project management, employee performance management
– learn
— e-learning suites
-         case: Procter & Gamble
– transforming innovation strategy doubling its market capitalization
– moved from research and develop to connect and develop
— internal research no longer sufficient for growth. new goals: 50 % external innovations
– this is not outsourcing innovation: collaborate and leverage internal skills
– proprietary networks and technology entrepreneurs
– open networks: ninesigma etc.
- a model for workforce analysis
– decision support focused
— 1. Improving Controllable Contribution at a Retailer
—- employee perceptions linked to business outcomes
—- aggressive case: 210 million USD improvement in CC
—- managers target workgroup engagement behaviours to ensure high employee engagement
— 2. Sun Microsystems
—- performance data analysed, diversed participants
—- performance metric: salary grade changes, promotions
—- assumed a dollar increase in compensation equalled a dollar of value for the company
—- results: 25% of mentees had salary grade increases vs. 5 % in control group
—- results: 28 % of mentors had salary grade increases vs. 5 % in control group
—- mentoring results better in lower end that in the higher end
—- continuous investing in mentoring program
— 3. Improving sales leadership programme at a pharmaceutical company
—- correlated behaviors with sales performance
—- identified seven differentiating behaviors
—- develop profile for top performers
—- determined ROI
—- top performers contributed 25%-50% more than others
—- found correlation between a few key behaviors and high performance
—- 5% improvement in key competence increasing 40 million USD
-         “Skate to where the puck will be” – Wayne Gretzky

 

Amar Dhaliwal, SVP of Product Operations, Saba
-         discontinuity is opportunity
– chaos is the opportunity
- workforce engagement is critical
– critical for success
- informal learning and web 2.0 are in your thinking
– social networking
- developing leaders remains a challenge
- building the right talent is your key priority
- the HCM conversation is gaining traction
- globalization and flattening is changing everything
- FedEx is the largest airline in the world !
- shift happens
- the adaptable workforce
– survey of 400 organizations
– 75 % concerned with ability to develop future leaders
– 33 % employee skills are not aligned with business prorities
– 47% employee turnover has increased in last two years
– 52% ability to rapidly build skills in primary challenge
– 14% workforce is capable to adopt the change
– 13 % have a clear understanding
– 13% capable of identifying individuals
– 8% companies who think they are good at fostering collaboration
- learning 2.0
– embrace informal learning
— user generated content
— network effects
— collective intelligences
– engage users
— compelling experiences
— edge of network
-         learning shift
– ILT, WBT, virtual, blended  -> blended blogs, wikis, Q&A, search
– command and control, top-down -> bottom-up; peer to peer, pull
– delivering training programmes -> mentoring, knowledge networks
– expert intructors -> experts (discoverable)
– instructional designers creating content -> everyone contributing content
– content in notebooks and powerpoints -> content in blogs etc.
- enabling architecture
– the adaptive enterprise will have an architectural blueprint for their entire people strategy
- the adaptive enterprse
– adaptable processes
– workforce insight
– learning 2.0
– enabling architecture

 

-         100 Billion USD revenue of 100 years old company
-         60 % hired in last 5 years
-         selling out PC and hardware business
-         landscape is changing exponentially
-         example: preserving the world – the intensifying complexity of the world – the Great Rivers project
– helping the Chinese Gov about what they can do to help the cleaning it
– providing the IT for doing in order to get experts connected and linked into it

 

-         the globally integrated enterprise
– leverages the power of global assets
– makes informed choices within a global competitive market
– secures unique value via specialization in a network of open partners
– taps into a universe of modular services
– operates seamlessly across boundaries via global values, skills and processes
- tailored skills and networking the expertise
- intersifying the complexity
- we are reinventing continuously like helping oil industry to identify new reserves or helping the understand the climate change
- recently the discussing about resourcing in China including different talents and experts
- enabling integrated learning and talent management
– from enterprise strategy into enterprise performance
– from taxonomy for 360000 employees
— job roles, skill sets, capabilities, competences
— expertise assessment
— + plus for 110000 parttime consultants
— thinking about to include the partner’s employees, too
-         IBM 70000 workforce in India growing in less than 7 years from 3000 employees, what workforce could be in the Philippines, what expertise we could resource in which location
-         we are fluid 42% of IBMers are working outside of the IBM offices
-         we are using the expertise systems to find right skillsets
-         how to build the expertise – either employee or contractor or partner
-         still a lot of manual work required, so the vision is to get the last graph or a snapshot of the status
-         one employee is a part of elephant, so how to find the right location for the expertise
-         what are bringing to the world, what is your brand? how to develop it?
-         what makes you special?
-         three primary software: IBM & others, SAP and Saba now in use
-         since 2 months using Saba for everybody with a different complex
-         Centra use exploding in the IBM – due to global presence, so we should be using the interaction between people in order to achieve true learning
-         now looking at:
– competency management
– personal development plan
– performance management
– my success plan
– workforce planning
– succession planning
- IBM and Saba are have the vision
- people are self-selecting the development highways into what direction there are developed
- 7 years ago 52000 skills identified – skill sets defined – can you the following at work rather than skills identified
- 400 roles in IBM – right 2000 skill sets identified (can you do the following things used as a question?)
- self assessments verified by managers

Bobby Yazdani, Saba

- Strategic partnerships with customers are sought
- Global Workplace is changing
– 60 % of global work force retiring
– shortage of 15 million skilled people
– workers by 2010
- info now 2 x 72 hrs by 2010 will be obsolete
- English speakers will be in China
- years it to be reach an audience of 50 Million
– rapid transition
– 1 out of 8 couples met in the US met online
– more than 50 % of 21 years old have created the content
– more than 70 of US 4 year old have used PC
- the organization of the future in the new
– discontinuity of the market places have been looked out
– bottom-up organization
– every single individual
– many minds, better solutions
– chaos management – who is the first will succeed
— Saba gives discipline for the chaos by bringing new technology for supporting your success
— help organization to act faster for reacting for change
– from functional organization into process-oriented organization
— part-time organization, 75 % still in full-time
– organizing per project and per task so flexible workplace “boomerang” workforce
– dynamics required
- information architecture should be dynamic
- holistic approach has been put together for helping us to handle the chaos
– strategic processes
– operational processes
– people processes
— many questions in relation for people
—- how to find the right people? how to motivate? how to resource?
— people management platform
—- process standpoint, IT infrastructure standpoint and capability standpoint formed together
—- strategy view
- working and partnering with Fidelity, IBM and HP

- new features: – Blackberry info searching, Facebook / Saba user profile mash-up, Tool bars could be added into browsers added