HR leaders should be business athletes who run the people function. When brought in early, we act as true partners, not just ...

A 2026 study finds that most HR professionals are sidelined from AI strategy development, which reduces the efficiency, ...

HR professionals will take on a strategic role in organisations as their work tasks become increasingly automated through AI adoption, according to an expert. Piers Hudson, senior research director in ...

Senior executives are responsible for developing the overall goals and strategies for an organization. Some organizations use strategy maps to translate intangible goals -- such as operational ...

Human resources functions are significantly different from HR practices. Functions are comprised of transactional activities that can be handled in-house or easily outsourced. Practices are part ...

The Organisational Design Behind Business Growth . Organisations do not fail because they lack strategy - they fail because strategy is separated from organisational design. If we really think about ...

There was a time not long ago when “getting HR involved” generally meant diffusing an employee relations issue. Twentieth-century HR was all about control, enforcing compliance around hiring, training ...

Liana Passantino is a senior principal research specialist at Gartner Inc. As CHROs face ongoing pressure to deliver operational excellence and create greater business value, they are looking to HR ...

Fragmented data between HR and finance poses a risk to HR’s ability to strategically influence business outcomes, new ...

A survey of 1,180 HR professionals, launched today by people management experts the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), shows that the HR function is in a state of flux. The ...

Swarovski Corporation’s decision to use a cloud human resources (HR) system expresses its desire to move HR from an operational function to a strategic level, according to Oliver Kasper, head of HR ...

Six years ago, I wrote (with colleague Jennifer Riel) a Harvard Business Review article on functional strategy. But the questions about functional strategy keep coming unabated. It is a vexatious ...