• Intelligent, personalized and self-directed learning platforms 
• AI-based employee coaching 
• Data-driven intelligent career management and talent mobility 

Although a source of inspiration for funny Dilbert comics, unnecessary hierarchies create massive inefficiency (≈$3 trillion per year) and frustration.

This trend of flattening organizations will continue to spread in favor of empowering small teams and individual contributors.

• Automated candidate sourcing of passive talent 
• AI-based succession management 
• HR analytics platform 

As organizations embrace how some talent will come and go based on their own freedom preferences, there will be certain core employees who represent a more permanent foundation of the company. Retaining these people will be imperative and employers will take a more proactive approach in shaping t...

Companies will look at individual tasks as opposed to entire jobs. It’s unlikely machines will be able to do everything in the foreseeable future and instead, the winning model will incorporate machine + human where part of the value creation will come from machines and part from humans.

• Redefined compensation services 
• Marketplaces and digital channels to find contingency talent, across blue and white collar jobs 
• Tools for more efficient talent on- and off-boarding 
• Products to facilitate dynamic collaboration within fluid team structures 

The general perception of HR isn’t all sunshine, and many see it as the evil bureaucrats who bring bad news to people getting laid off. But as the war for top quality talent intensifies, HR will transition its role to become a key organizational asset.

HR decisions and tactics a...