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Develop a Holistic HR Technology Strategy

Drive today’s success and tomorrow’s innovation through HR Technology.

  • HR’s role has become more strategic than ever, and HR technology is an enabler of this evolution.
  • When used effectively, HR technology is a powerful tool to drive organizational agility, competitiveness, and a data-driven culture.
  • An HR technology strategy helps drive meaningful outcomes from technology such as improved operational efficiency, an augmented employee experience, and enhanced HR service delivery.

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  • Get on-demand project support
  • Get advice, coaching, and insight at key project milestones
  • Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project

Our Advice

Critical Insight

To deliver value, an HR technology strategy must be anchored in organizational goals and strategy. A holistic, future-oriented approach ensures that investments in technology go beyond automating processes to build the capabilities the organization needs to thrive in the future.

Impact and Result

  • A comprehensive HR technology strategy that is aligned with the broader organizational, HR, AI, and IT strategies to drive more effective and impactful use of HR technologies.
  • A roadmap that provides clarity around the current state and a vision of the future state where HR and its clients have the people, data, processes, and technology they need to efficiently and effectively meet their goals.

Develop a Holistic HR Technology Strategy Research & Tools

1. Prepare and Establish Foundations

Build the HR technology strategy team, identify strategic priorities, conduct a macroenvironmental scan, and articulate the need for a holistic HR technology strategy.

2. Define the Scope

Define the scope of the HR technology strategy, inventory current HR systems, map system integrations, and develop end-user personas.

3. Assess Current State and Explore Future State

Evaluate current and future states, uncover pain points and opportunities within each HR capability area, prioritize HR capabilities, and evaluate technology solution options and define the path forward.

4. Build an HR Technology Roadmap

Craft a vision statement, define strategic guiding principles, prioritize initiatives, prepare risk mitigation plans, and plan to communicate the HR technology roadmap.


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 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

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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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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 10 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

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: Define the Scope
  • Call 1: Define the scope of the HR technology strategy, including which HR functional capabilities to include.
  • Call 2: Inventory current HR systems and map integrations to identify redundancies and gaps.

Guided Implementation 3: Assess Current State and Explore Future State
  • Call 1: Assess maturity in each HR capability area (process, technology, people, data) and uncover pain points.
  • Call 2: Discover and prioritize opportunities for improvement through HR technology, including AI and automation.
  • Call 3: Evaluate technology solution options (maintain, optimize, augment, consolidate, replace) and select the best path forward.

Guided Implementation 4: Build an HR Technology Roadmap
  • Call 1: Craft a vision statement, define guiding principles, and identify/prioritize key initiatives for the roadmap.
  • Call 2: Prepare risk mitigation plans, change management strategies, and communication plans for key stakeholders.

Contributors

  • Paul Herztein – Senior Workshop Director, Info-Tech Research Group
  • Hong Kwok – Advisory Director, Info-Tech Research Group
  • Steve Goldberg – HR Tech Industry Analyst, ABC Company
  • Ilia Maor – Manager, HR Technology and Analytics, York Region
  • Daniel Spadafora – Head, HR Technology and Operations, Bruce Power
  • Amy Kruse – Senior Director, People Systems, Operations & Analytics, Arc’teryx Equipment
  • Allison DeTitto – Senior Manager, HR Technology Programs, Elastic