Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Key Ingredients for a Successful start of HR Digital Transformation

 



Digital technologies are transforming operations, products and services in organizations large and small. The digital transformation of organizations is extolled as a solution to organizational challenges related to both efficiency and effectiveness.. 

So here are few starting points for creating successful digital transformations in organization.

Goal is the Important 


Again, before going off on a big transformational HR journey, first establish a clearly defined goal that makes sense from a business perspective. Most of the time, this goal will be to solve an issue employees encounter.

That’s why, in a process of HR transformation, the focus should always be on the employee as an end-user. It’s also why you want to let your employees test any new technology themselves first before you implement it.


 
Get everyone on Table

This means all stakeholders, from employees to the C-suite and everyone in between. When it comes to a digital HR transformation  something that will affect the entire organization  you need all the support you can get in order for it to become a success.

Start with Simple


Always start simple and small. Look at the areas of your HR processes that could do with a digital makeover. Preselection & recruitment,  learning and development, payroll management and etc. Talk about this with your employees and the members of the C-suite. Ask them what they think should be a priority.
 


Prioritize Ideas

This will undoubtedly result in a long list of ideas. Prioritize them based on impact and effort. The former meaning the business impact of digitalizing the ideas and the latter meaning the time and money it would take to actually get the ideas to go digital. Start with the ideas that are high impact and low effort. They will help you build the business case for digital HR and get you going quickly


Assess Performance

Trying and implementing digital technologies is great, but doesn’t make much business sense if we don’t look at their results. Hence we need to critically assess what works and what doesn’t. After all, the only way for us to advance is to solve actual problems with technological solutions that truly solve these problems.


Work Place Culture

Digital technology alone is not enough for an HR transformation. Let alone a digital transformation of an entire organization. It’s just as much  perhaps even more about the mindset of everyone involved. And that has everything to do with your company culture.

From the new people you hire, via your current workforce all the way up to the C-level, a digital mindset in the broadest sense of the word  is essential for a successful transformation.

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10 comments:

  1. Simply well explained the article. Looking forward to seeing more deeply explained articles on HR with real-time scenarios.

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  2. Good idea about digital platform to HRM . We can use digital platform to whole organization

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    1. Yes Wimal. We need to doing this very smoothly. since start is always not easy.

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  3. The GetSmarter survey finds that the two most crucial ingredients for digital transformation success are strong leadership and effective change management. And garment factries use this well

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  4. My idea is the Digital transformation is much needed thing.However some traditional employees are concerned that the new responsibilities will be too difficult to them.so they dont like this transformation. what do you think about that?

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    1. Agreed with your idea Udara. This is the challenge we are facing. First we need to change their mindset & need to do the changes step by step.

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  5. Digital Transformation itself is a very complicated concept. An organization should implement a prescriptive strategy when initiating Digitalization. can you further suggest a change management model for implementing HR Digitalization in the Organization.

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  6. Strong leadership and good change management are the two most important factors for the success of the digital transformation, according to the GetSmarter poll; nevertheless, this only works in select private firms.

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  7. Digitalization easy the process of collecting and analyzing data. It reduce the time for decision making.

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