October 2023

I was fortunate to hear Rita Gunther McGrath speak about ‘The end of competitive advantage’ recently in a talk that both excited and scared me. The central theme was that the days of finding ‘sustainable competitive advantage’ are long gone and that companies will need to behave in a very different way to survive. That scares me because I don’t see many organisations doing a good job of delivering change. I’m not basing this on Kotter’s statistics on how many change initiatives fail, I’m basing this on what I see around me in organisations and on the stories I hear every day.

The recent appointment of Satya Nadella as the new chief executive of Microsoft didn’t catch many talent watchers by surprise. Late last year, outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer discretely announced in a meeting with analysts that Microsoft had already found their new leader. Given no major resignations or announcements had been made, other than to end speculation first, over ex-HP head Mark Hurd, and then Ford CEO Alan Mulally shortly before Christmas, the smart money was on an internal appointment.

No matter where you are in your transformation, it’s never too early to introduce a prioritization model. Here are the basic components of a good one.

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HR leaders can lean into the power of change and take a human-focused approach to thrive amid the fast-moving shifts in HR tech, experts described at last week’s HR Tech Conference.

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The new partnership builds on EY’s $1.4 billion investment into its EY.ai platform, of which EY.ai Workforce will be a part.

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