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Transcript of a discussion on how those writing the next chapters of human resources and information technology interactions are finding common ground to significantly improve the modern employee experience.
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With the influx of intelligent machines, conventional work models are shifting. Using insights from workforce intelligence, businesses can redefine the employee experience while also driving collaboration, innovation and success across the enterprise.
It used to be the case that staff worked the way they were told to by their employers. It was therefore the objectives of the organisation – efficiency, in most cases – that defined the working style of the majority.
Now, though, the way we work is subject to all manner of influences. Organisations that wish to design engaging and productive working environments for their employees must understand those forces, and react accordingly.
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analytic tools, HR leaders will be better able to help
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spectrum of potential, thereby enhancing their
own role and stature in the process.
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spectrum of potential, thereby enhancing their
own role and stature in the process.
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and social collaboration tools with the power of workforce
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talent, create an engaging social and
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work done. We help organizations build an impassioned
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Redesigning work creates a smarter workforce
1. Thought Leadership Whitepaper
IBM Software
Redesigning work creates a
Smarter Workforce
Helping organizations reinvent their workforce so they
can demand more
2. The recent advancements in human insight have been
extraordinary. We have now reached a place in time where we
know what makes people good at what they do, individually and
collectively. We also better understand the dynamics of talent
and the science of human behavior like no other society in the
history of mankind.
The combination of technology and human insight has
produced mounds of big data around human behavior and
workforce tendencies that employers have been collecting for
decades through their legacy human capital management
systems, but until recently, have not been able to extract and
use. We now have the ability to recognize and analyze trends
that can literally predict behavior, identify talent quickly, match
capabilities to marketplace needs, retain the best and act on
time-tested insights to drive business outcomes.
Businesses are starting to look at work from a human insight
and analytics perspective. Workers are more empowered than
ever before and our interactions through technology continue
to change the landscape of work. When both things are
combined, we can become more predictive and use those
insights to drive business results.
This workforce shift evolves into a fundamental change in
management style. Businesses have typically always run on the
premise of a top-down approach. Decisions are made at the
executive level and trickle down to directors, managers and,
eventually, the rank-and-file employees. But now, with the
power of technology and collaboration, those decisions are
being made from the bottom up to match the flow of collective
information. And if businesses are listening, they will take
advantage of it and see the fundamental difference it can make
to their bottom line. This can make businesses more flexible,
nimble and adaptable to market change and, as a result, more
successful.
After considering all of this, we need to understand what is
driving the change in work. Four major shifts are making the
world of work increasingly interconnected, instrumental and
Redesigning work creates a Smarter Workforce
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Work. It is something nearly three billion people do virtually
every day, but according to a 2012 survey from Salary.com, few
of us really enjoy it (Gouveia, 2012). As a society, we seem to
view work as a necessary evil, something we have to do rather
than want to do.
Through the years, work has gone from a means of providing
basic needs, to granting dignity, status and satisfaction. Work
will eventually become a means of identity – a time when the
work you do will proudly define who you are. This evolution is
placing added complexities on businesses as they engage the
individual, recognize talent, attract the very best, and open up
channels of communication and collaboration. If we can help
employees understand their true talents and, in turn, help them
find work that will use their full capabilities, the employee and
the employer will both benefit. This requires a fundamental
shift in thinking and attitudes about work. Companies need to
rethink the way they go about attracting, empowering and
motivating their employees.
With the current model of work, employees struggle to gain the
right skills to succeed in today’s ultracompetitive job market, to
find the best way to go about attaining meaningful work and to
determine what kind of organization best matches with their
personality.
At the same time, employers struggle to find top talent, to
enable their employees to do their jobs, to provide the necessary
skills and training to adapt to an ever-changing marketplace,
and to leverage the best from the talent they already have.
Today’s workforce is more empowered and informed than ever
before because of the recent development of technology and
means of communication we rarely thought possible 10 years
ago. Information about each topic under the sun is not only
available, it is accessible in real-time at the click of a button.
The speed at which people can communicate and connect with
others located virtually anywhere in the world is changing the
fundamental way we live, and is making collaboration possible
like almost never before. This shift has dynamically changed the
marketplace, and it is about to change business.
3. intelligent. These four shifts are: the rise in social business, big
data and analytics, mobile technology, and the independent and
contingent worker. Each of these shifts are accelerating and
magnifying many of the same problems we have today. And
they will likely create entirely new obstacles for employees and
employers to overcome. But the good news is that the solution
lies within the model of the problem. The solution is the
creation of a Smarter Workforce.
First, let us examine the four shifts that are changing the way
we view work.
The rise in social business in the
workplace
We are connecting with each other more quickly than ever
before, and we are doing it in new ways. Employers are
efficiently and effectively flattening their organizations,
enabling their workforces to share knowledge, build expertise,
and organize and collaborate in new ways, inside and outside of
their firewalls.
By embedding social tools, media and practices into their
existing systems and processes, businesses are experiencing up
to 11 percent top-line growth, and their people are increasing
their productivity by up to 12 percent according to a 2012
report from McKinsey Global Institute (Chui et al., 2012).
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By implementing these platforms, employers are capturing
volumes of data on the behaviors, morale and productivity of
their workforces. They can organize and analyze that data to
improve individual, team and business performance.
The rise of big data analytics
Decisions once made based on limited information and gut
feelings are now being made based on insights extracted from
the exabytes of information that employers collect from
candidates and employees. Potential employees prepare for
interviews by scouring job sites to learn about a company and
those who make hiring decisions. Employers are using the
same websites to actively gather, organize and analyze public
and internal data, and then using what they find to attract and
hire candidates.
From creating queries to predictive modeling and
optimization, data and analytics are revealing previously unseen
relationships and correlations. Employers are using these
insights to guide who and how they recruit, how they design
their jobs to attract and retain talent as well as how they
manage their workplace culture and develop their existing
workforce. More than 60 percent of employers who actively
use data analytics in human capital issues believe it is creating a
competitive advantage for their organization according to a
2012 report from the IBM Institute for Business Value
(Schroeck et al., 2012).
This tremendous source of data is also changing the nature of
the human resources (HR) profession. Now, HR leaders are
able to present workforce challenges based on quantifiable
insights in a way that has not been available to them in the past.
More and more executives see the Chief Human Resources
Officer (CHRO) as a trusted advisor who can help solve
business challenges through human capital initiatives. As a
result, the CHRO is making its way into the C-Suite, where
important business decisions are made.
Figure 1: The four shifts changing the nature of work
Social
Business
Independent
Worker
Big Data
and Analytics
Mobile
Technology
4. 4
Redesigning work creates a Smarter Workforce
The rise of mobile technology
Think about the ways people access information and how it
has changed during the past two decades. Until recently,
information was available in books and various publications
and from interactions with people. When the Internet reached
the masses, knowledge became a readily available commodity
and people’s worlds were instantly opened up to new ideas and
new information from virtually all over the globe.
Today, more than 75 percent of the world’s population owns a
mobile device according to a report by the World Bank and
infoDev (World Bank, 2012), so information is not only
accessible, but available at your fingertips. As connectivity
becomes easier, collaboration is done more rapidly and
decisions get made much faster. Organizations from highly
populated countries such as India and China are innovating at a
faster pace than those from developed countries due to the
ability for people to be connected through mobile devices.
The rise of the independent worker
As human capital becomes the leading source of sustained
economic value, more workers are striking out on their own.
As a result, employers are looking for better ways to partner
with independent and contingent workers to take advantage of
this new segment of the workforce.
At the same time, people are networking with other people and
employers to pursue the work they want to do, for who they
want to do it, and for when and how they want to work. These
workers are becoming hyper-specialized and extremely mobile,
and can be used to solve a pressing, short-term business need
before moving on to the next challenge.
Meanwhile, employers are networking as well. They are
building their own webs of talent in order to fill talent gaps
faster, to derive cost-savings from an adjustable workforce and
to boost the ability to innovate by regularly bringing in new
knowledge and fresh ideas. This shift in the workforce can also
change the culture of organizations. Organizations will see
the impact new ideas have on the company and the psyche of
employers, and will likely become more open, more flexible
and more productive.
Introducing a Smarter Workforce
These dynamics require one collaborative point of view and
solution to redesign work. And in fact, IBM, because of its recent
acquisition of Kenexa, a leading provider of business solutions
for human resources, is one of the only companies in the
marketplace that takes each of these dynamics into account to
provide solutions that help meet the workforce challenges of
today and tomorrow.
These dynamics present IBM and Kenexa the opportunity to
fundamentally change the way we work by:
• Augmenting the power of human judgment.
• Significantly reducing hierarchies.
• Forming a true labor market.
• Creating radical transparencies across organizations.
• Causing career paths and best fit roles to be predicted.
• Creating the new supply chain for the 21st century workforce.
The era of big data analytics will not replace human judgment,
but rather supplement it so decisions that were once based on
instinct will be made on the basis of massive data sets consisting
of hundreds of variables. These variables will include those that
no person would ever think of – multi-variate statistical models
that can analyze these numbers in real-time. IBM introduced
Watson, an artificially intelligent computer system, to the world
in 2011 by having it compete in one of the leading televised quiz
shows in the United States. Watson’s cognitive technology can
enable employers to find answers to difficult human resources
questions through the deep analysis and natural language
processing of both demographic and behavioral data. The effect
will be similar to what the microscope and telescope have done
for human vision, enabling people to see and understand what
was rarely visible before.
When work is done by people coming together, hierarchies can
break down and organizations can open up. The border between
an organization’s employees and ad hoc workers can become
more porous. Departmental and functional silos in the workforce
can become less relevant and the individual can be the “unit of
5. In the new supply chain for the 21st century workforce, people
will become linked virtually and socially through the use of
mobile devices in a world of instant connection and
collaboration. People will create enormous pools of networks,
skills and expertise – ready and able to deploy at a moment’s
notice to help organizations achieve their business goals.
There is power in work
So if we can harness the power of big data and analytics with
human insight, human behavior and workforce solutions, along
with social and mobile technologies, we could bring people and
employers together to do more meaningful and valuable work to
drive business.
We call it a Smarter Workforce.
Bringing these elements together and leveraging them to drive
business outcomes is what a Smarter Workforce is about.
A Smarter Workforce is actually smarter when:
• Behavioral science identifies what makes people good at what
they do and organizations thrive because of it.
• Technology does not just drive efficiency, it fuels collective
innovation.
• Analytics is both a predictive and management tool critical for
driving continual improvement.
The end result is that people will become educated about career
opportunities and their skills; have the tools to connect, organize
and collaborate socially so they can constantly tap into collective
expertise available at their fingertips; become culturally aware
and understand the type of culture they will thrive in; develop
leadership skills to lead in flat organizations and empower
real-time development opportunities; and define work through
talent and not jobs or roles.
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analysis.” The traditional role of manager as a coach, mentor and
resource allocator can change to be more like a guide and
facilitator. The leader can become the interconnection point in a
flat social network, helping ensure that for a period of time, the
goals of the employer match those of the individuals’ career.
The labor market inside each organization will need to change
as the percentage of independent and contingent workers rise.
This transformation can bring about the creation of a true labor
force. This true labor force will be global, complete with a
“common currency,” a “common language” and the free flow of
information. People will earn a “talent passport” that expresses
their true value based on their actual skill set, achievements and
the continuous feedback of nearly everyone they interact with at
work. The data on this “passport” will enable virtually every
company and individual to rely on the accuracy of the
information, and locate experts for projects and work at just the
right time, creating greater efficiencies and higher engaged
employees.
This dynamic will enable each aspect of work to become more
transparent, such as which jobs are available, what skill set is
needed, what it is like to work for a particular company – even
manager or leader – and the value that an individual can bring to
an organization. Real-time and continuous data, analytics and a
culture of transparency help enable executives to make informed
decisions much easier and will make it more important to match
the right worker with the right job. These changes can transform
the notion of professional reputation, and force people and
organizations to rethink how they manage, brand and value their
workforce.
With virtually all the big data, analytical techniques and
mathematical models now available, combined with behavioral
science, organizations will be able to predict career paths and
best-fit roles for candidates and employees. Employers will have
the ability to find the right people the first time who possesses
the expert skills required for their work. Individuals, whether
they work for a company or independently, will have a better
chance to find the right answers to questions they have before
they start a job or start out in a career. This helps the individual
find and undertake meaningful, fulfilling work because work is
matched to their personality and style.
6. Redesigning work creates a Smarter Workforce
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At the same time, employers will become experts at using
analytics to find the right people; have the capabilities to
leverage skills quickly and in a virtual work environment; assess,
recognize and reward people continuously using social business
tools; help employees learn continuously and socially; use mobile
devices as the predominant work tools; think of the social
network as the 21st century supply chain; predict performance,
engagement and business outcomes; and use the knowledge of
their culture to engage their people more to create stakeholder
value.
A Smarter Workforce makes smarter businesses.
One company used human analytics and data analytics to help
hire for fit the first time. This led to a 1.2 percent increase in
profits per customer, resulting in millions of dollars in added
revenue for the company.
A construction company empowered its employees with
real-time solutions that leverage the company’s collective
intelligence. As a result, new construction sales drastically
increased by 40 percent.
Attracting the right talent through employment branding
enabled a large, for-profit education institution to win the war
for talent while slashing the cost for recruiting employees by
$2 million.
These are just a few examples of what it means to build a
Smarter Workforce.
When companies reduce time-to-hire, increase productivity,
lower turnover and increase retention rates, business wins by
getting its products to market faster, sharing collective
knowledge and being more creative and innovative. These
companies truly understand how employees impact the bottom
line. It is not just good business. It is smart business. Because
what is good for people is good for business, and together, they
can change the world.