Vijay Bankar

It stands to reason that you have already prioritised your HR activities for the coming year. Obviously, no one can predict what may happen in the year ahead. This is especially the case given the unprecedented pace at which inventions and innovations are improving the HR tech landscape. The ‘alphabet soup’ is getting new ingredients with every product release from tech companies—case in point: AI, ML, DL, LLMs, GenAI, RPA, Agentic AI, MCP, and so on. This will obviously impact the recipe of our HR strategy for this year. During the previous year, we have seen companies experimenting with AI pilot projects in several areas with varying degrees of success. Giving us immense insights into where we should and should not implement these new products. During 2025, we have also seen announcements from Google about adding AI agents to Google Workspace, and from Microsoft about adding agents to (Agent 365) Microsoft 365.    According to various HR tech analysts, we are mov...

These days the market is inundated with a plethora of HR Tech options with solutions championed by AI. Almost every vendor flaunts their offerings, expatiating the salient AI features of their product. And how it would successfully address our concerns relating to people management. And the fortuitous arrival of Generative AI seems to be the 'next-gen' nascent technology within the HR Tech landscape. It will offer use cases limited only by the fecundity of our imagination. The often cited main benefits of AI tools, as Sir Humphrey Appleby would say, "thereby releasing their overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations that are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position." 😃😃 Given the rapid innovations in product capabilities, purveyors do not fit into one category. It leads to misapprehension about the categorization due to overlap. The absence of clear demarcation makes it inscrutable and incomprehensible for lay people to understand t...

(This article is written to practise my newfangled lexicon. Please pardon me for my mistakes.🙏🖖) Josh Bersin is a well-known HR Tech analyst and founder of Josh Bersin Academy. In the field of HR, he is the leading light and maven among other luminaries. A few days ago, he released a remarkably improving report filled with his perspicacious, distinctive, and magisterial insights on 'HR Trends for 2023.' Not to put too fine a point on it, but this compendious report is right out of the top drawer.  [ 📥Download Report ]  With reductionist analysis, this report comprehensively delineates 15 main trends and expatiate their effects on HR. Understanding these trends will stand HR professionals in good stead to devise their functional tactics and stay ahead of the curve. And suggested measures in this report will help them successfully address these trends and gain a competitive advantage. Let's try to epitomize the long and short of this report. Skills are on the rise in HR. N...

Every year SHRM India organize HR Tech APAC Conference. This year it was held on 22nd and 23rd May 2019 in Hyderabad. Around 1500+ professionals from the world of work were present at SHRM HR Tech APAC 2019. It gave us an opportunity to interact with HR Leaders to enhance our understanding of the latest trends in HR, Technology, and Workplace Innovation. In the evening of May 22nd, SHRM India released the “HR Influencer Report 2019." They have to carry out extensive research to generate this report. For primary research, SHRM India used HR-specific keywords through Talkwalker to map influencers. In addition, they also considered HR panels and publications for secondary research. SHRM India quantified the digital performance of each influencer based on their activities on: Twitter, LinkedIn, Kred, and Phlanx. This year, with a new methodology, they ranked influencers according to cohorts i.e. Experts, Generalists, Specialists, and Newcomers. Following image correctly ...