Develop a Holistic Digital HR Strategy
Increase efficiencies, effectiveness, and engagement with a living strategy that starts with the client experience.
- Seventy-seven percent of organizations do not have a documented HR technology strategy (McLean & Company, HR Trends Survey, 2021; n=431), resulting in existing technology solutions that were selected reactively and fail to effectively meet client needs.
- Many HR departments are not taking any action to support digital transformation and are left out of key decisions around HR technology selection and implementation, despite being the primary users and facilitating its adoption throughout the organization.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight
Creating a digital HR strategy without considering the client experience risks not meeting the needs of a modern workforce. To be successful, HR’s digital strategy must balance the organization’s needs with the needs of the people who will be actively interacting with the processes and systems.
Impact and Result
- Develop a holistic digital HR strategy that is owned and driven by HR in collaboration with other key stakeholders to realize benefits such as greater HR efficiency and improved client experience and engagement.
- Focus on the client experience to ensure the people who will be actively interacting with the processes and systems have direct input into the strategy to maximize buy-in, adoption, and impact.
- Ensure strict prioritization and take a phased approach to maintain a manageable workload. The goal is to create a multi-year, living strategy, not to achieve a static end-state.
- Incorporate change management into the roadmap and communications of the digital HR strategy to create reasonable timelines, encourage adoption, and maximize the benefits realized.
Digital HR Strategy
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How to complete this course:
Use these videos, along with the Project Blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the Course Modules. At the end of each Module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all of the course tests.
- Number of Course Modules: 5
- Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours
Learning Outcome
Develop a holistic digital HR strategy that is owned and driven by HR in collaboration with other key stakeholders to realize benefits such as greater HR efficiency and improved client experience and engagement.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the role HR plays in developing a digital HR strategy.
- Identify priority HR technology elements.
- Investigate the client digital experience.
- Determine and categorize digital opportunities.
- Describe the factors involved in creating a digital HR strategy roadmap
Course Modules
Introduction
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Identify priority HR technology elements
- Call 1: Review client feedback, connections to organizational goals, and results from external scan.
- Call 2: Prioritize HR technology elements.
- Call 3: Establish scope, purpose, and goals and metrics of the strategy.
Guided Implementation 2: Uncover the client digital experience
- Call 1: Discuss activities to complete process and systems mapping.
- Call 2: Define client personas and prepare for interviews.
- Call 3: Review empathy map and journey map findings.
Guided Implementation 3: Identify digital opportunities and select initiatives
- Call 1: Identify digital opportunities and initiatives.
- Call 2: Select goals and metrics for prioritized HR technology elements.
Guided Implementation 4: Create a digital HR strategy roadmap
- Call 1: Review the digital HR strategy roadmap.
- Call 2: Outline a communication plan and discuss next steps.
Contributors
- Francesca Bartha, Senior Manager, HR Systems Solutions, KPMG
- Corrado Chiaramida, Senior Manager, Network Learning Business Management, Telecommunications company
- Rossana Broderick, VP, Learning & Organizational Change Management, Alectra Utilities
- Larry Dean, IT Director, Hastings County
- Anjana Dhaliwal, Senior Manager, HR Systems, OLG
- Rick Diesinger, Associate VP, HR Technology Strategy & Governance, Allergan
- Debbie Elliott, Principal Consultant, Elliott D & Associates
- Sideek Headlie, Engagement & Change Manager, Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago Limited
- Marlon Herry, Enterprise Applications Manager, University of Trinidad and Tobago
- Lisa Highfield, Research Director, Info-Tech Research Group
- Volker Jacobs, CEO & Founder, TI People
- Sharifa Jivani, OE Consultant, Toronto Hydro
- Suanne McGrath Kelly, President, Chief Business Strategist, Plan in Motion Inc.
- Ilia Maor, Manager, HR Technology and Analytics, York Region
- Jim Meier, Director of Global Projects, Barry-Wehmiller
- David Piazza, President, SoftwareReviews
- Jay Polaki, Founder and CEO, HR Geckos
- Harjas Rai, Senior HR Business Partner, Media company
- Atif Siddiqui, Senior Partner, Cloud HCM, GroupeX
- Kim Townes, HR Director, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- Diana Valler, VP of HR, H.I.S. Red Label Vacations
- Ken Weston, Senior Consulting Analyst, Info-Tech Research Group
- Henry Winter, VP, People & Safety, Alectra Utilities
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