SuccessConnect: Get with the Cloud or lose your job in HR
Posted by admin in Technology on Tue, 11/05/2010 - 20:45
Is Cloud Computing effectively calling the bluff of the HR director? For years HR people have longed for a seat on the board, complaining that they are unable to make their true contribution to adding business value to their organisations because they're bogged down in traditional processes and paperwork.
Cloud Computing potentially changes all that. “We are revolutionaries and revolutionaries need to huddle together to learn how to revolutionise,” said Lars Dalgaard, CEO of Cloud firm SuccessFactors at the Success Connect user gathering in New York. “We're all building on one another. We're telling people something new.”
Dalgaard said that the type of Cloud offering that SuccessFactors provides alters the nature of the HR role for the better. “We have HR executives who have become very successful inside their own companies,” he said. “There is a bunch of HR people who have already taken the chance with us and we have rewarded them. I often hear HR people saying 'I put my career at risk by going with you.
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