Employee Experience studies & perspectives

Last month we had the privilege of hosting 20 HR leaders from across the United States at Dolby’s office in San Francisco. Our goal was to guide the group through the what and the how of sustainable EX improvement. Around the room, the objective for many was much the...

By Mark Levy and Volker Jacobs It’s hard to find a conference for senior HR leaders these days that does not have an employee expe­rience (EX) stream. You can look at it from almost each HR angle, and you will find a very compelling use case for EX management:...

Employee experience (EX) management provides a better experience at ‘moments of truth’ and it has a direct link to business value. This insight made a client of ours think. He asked me in an email if the leadership and culture of a company was such a moment of...

The Digital HR Program is a unique platform for HR leaders to learn about HR innovation driving the employee experience (EX) and to co-create solutions for common digital HR pain points. We once more brought together our innovative members of the Digital HR Program to...

Employee experience is the new battleground in the war for talent. How can HR design a compelling Employee Experience and manage it at scale? Our new EX maturity model offers an implementation roadmap and readiness diagnostic to help HR executives focus limited...

That’s the July 2018 issue of Harvard Business Manager, where TI People founder Volker Jacobs in his article ‘Five steps towards innovative people management’ lays out a co-created model for a customer-centric HR function aiming to improve engagement, and hence,...

It looks like organisational agility is the new black. But how do we get there? There is already a rich source of literature on agile practices that we should consider . However, our research has suggested that HR is less certain on how to adjust their processes to...

This is the third article in my “Digital HR Value” series. It covers the digital HR building block ‘Applification and Machine Intelligence’ from our digital HR model, with a focus on Artificial intelligence (AI). AI is changing our lives in many ways. From automation...

No doubt – HR is not exactly a data savvy function: Between 80% and 100% of CEOs require strategic decision support informed by people data, yet less than 20% of them receive such information from the HR function. That message is well understood by HR: In our recent...

The world of work is changing at a faster pace than ever. Nobody knows exactly what the future of work will look like. Yet there are stable trends that help to predict how we will work in the coming decades. An easily accessible model describing tomorrow’s today is...

No doubt – the term ‘digital’ sums up the most eminent strategic challenges for almost any industry. In most companies though, HR is left out when digital strategies are discussed at executive level. HR is often perceived as a digital latecomer, with a reputation of...

Eight out of ten large companies are currently running a program to reduce the cost of their HR function and improve its effectiveness at the same time. But when we asked the Heads of HR of leading companies how their transformation program was going, their responses...