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Practitioner points of view on HR strategy, HCM delivery, change management, and AI in HR.
When the Transformation Budget Tightens, Protect Change and Learning When a transformation budget tightens, the software license stays. The integration work stays. What usually goes is the change management and learning workstream — and that gets the logic backwards. Key Takeaways ✓Licenses and integrations are visible and contractual; adoption is harder to price — which […]
The State of AI Adoption in HR: What the Data Actually Shows Part 2 of a series · Part 1: Where AI Actually Creates Value in HR Cary Consulting Group · Est. reading time: 4 minutes Last time, I made the case that AI in HR is a genuinely useful tool, not a strategy in […]
Every HCM vendor now has an AI story. Some of it is genuinely useful. A good amount of it is a feature built for the demo, not for your actual workforce. Key Takeaways ✓Real value today: administrative/transactional automation, recruiting screening and scheduling, self-service, and workforce analytics ✓Still hype: fully autonomous high-stakes decisions, “AI will fix […]
What Years in Big 4 Taught Me About HR Transformation That Still Holds True I left Big 4 to build something more personal and more direct — but I didn’t leave behind everything I learned. Some of it turned out to be permanent. Key Takeaways ✓The fundamentals of successful transformation don’t change with scale: a […]
Do You Need a Fractional CHRO? Five Signs It’s Time Not every organization that needs senior HR leadership needs — or can justify — a full-time Chief Human Resources Officer. That gap is exactly where fractional CHRO support earns its keep. Key Takeaways ✓A fractional CHRO fits the gap between real strategic HR needs and […]
Workday vs. SuccessFactors vs. Oracle HCM: A Practitioner’s Framework for Choosing Most HCM selections turn into a features fight — and that’s exactly why so many organizations end up with an expensive system that doesn’t fix what was actually broken. Key Takeaways ✓The platform decision should be your fourth or fifth decision, not your first […]