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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. A post-mortem was conducted that pointed to a lack of organizational alignment, internal politics, and a lack of technical competence that hindered its ability to transform. Approximately 89 percent of organizations have already adopted a digital-first business strategy.

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Shared Services Get Strategic

Chief Executive

This is the work that Barani did back at Salesforce in 2013. Last to migrate over were legal and compliance. Leveraging Salesforce’s cloud platform, the different functions benefitted from data standardization—the transformation of data flowing in from difference sources into a common format enabling users to process and analyze it.

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Happy HR Professional Day 2023!

AIHR

Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen initiated the day in October 2013 to pay tribute to the HR profession. This shift led to a need for HR to focus more on workplace health and compliance. From the 1940s onward, regulatory compliance and labor relations are critical to HR’s responsibilities. How did it start?