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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year.

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment. Presently, many U.S.

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Ageism in the Workplace: Laws and Resources for Employees

HR Digest

Changing technology and a dismal job and economic scenario have forced many companies to tighten their budgetary belt. It is the mid-segment executives that were handling the finance, accounting, sales, and administrative jobs that are finding themselves left out in the cold with applications softwares taking over their careers.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business Review

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. Remind people that we are all human and have physical limitations. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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