Strategic HR

Strategic HR is a phenomenal innovation in the field of Human Resources.This competency has changed the impact dimensions of a HR professional.

In most organizations operational HR is practiced.This does not have any visible impact on the competitive advantage of the firm.

However,Strategic HR is focussed on enhancing the competitive advantage of the firm through its human resources.This is the biggest leap taken by the HR profession in the last 2 decades.This may transform the HR department into the most important department in an organization.

Leveraging technology in HR

In a recently concluded workshop on,"Generating innovations in HR",I have experienced new insights into the dynamics of innovation and its potential in different functions.

Though i had experienced the power of leveraging technological shifts,but its utility in the HR function had not been experienced.When we applied this approach to generating innovations in the sub-functions of HR,to my surprise,potent innovation ideas began to flow.It seems that systematic scanning of the technology shifts and their application to the HR function just does not happen.Hence,enormous potential and possibility does not get tapped.

Moreover,the HR innovations generated have a greater probability of success in comparison to innovations generated from scratch,because the new technology has already been tried and tested for new value.

Even technology shifts such as blogs and bluetooth have the capacity to add significant new value to the HR function.Blogs make the dream of a learing organization,possible and bluetooth enables the delivery of instruction design without the trainer being glued to the laptop.