Artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud technology, distributed ledger, quantum computing, an ever-growing volume of data – whatever buzzword you name: all of these have the potential to disrupt each and every business model. And, as we learned recently, including that of central banks. I believe that we are at the beginning rather than at the end of digitalising the financial system.
HR professionals are being regarded as strategic partners, employee champion, administrative expert and agent of transformation and are assuming broader roles in overall organisational strategy formulation and policy development. Therefore HR professionals are now required to have a much broader range of skills. You are required to have some business sense, follow economic and financial logic, possess IT skills and even be a counsellor.