Presentation by Perry Timms at Textkernel's conference Intelligent Machines and the Future of Recruitment on 2 June 2016 in Amsterdam. With a spotlight on AI; VR/AR; robotics, automation, machine learning and quantum computing, what does this mean for the world of work, jobs and human endeavour? More so, what does it mean to the technophobia often present in HR? There’s a thought that HR doesn’t even really get the technology that’s being used now and is having a profound effect on where, when and how people are working. And no, self-service cloud-based HR systems doesn’t mean the profession is anywhere near to being tech savvy. That’s low level labour realignment and marginal process improvement. My fear - as an HR professional aware of and experimenting with technology constantly - is that my profession is already WAY BEHIND the curve so how will HR practitioners cope with the latest array of digital disruption? Join me in finding out how I believe we can upgrade HR’s thinking and doing for the digital age of work.

1. Human > Machine Interface
The Future of HR
@PerryTimms
Founder - PTHR and the iPractice
TEDx Speaker - The Future of Work

3. A new era
“I think we need an ideological revolution in business. The ideology for the last 100
years has been ‘controlism’, and the tangible form of that ideology was
bureaucracy. As we move from the industrial economy through the service economy
to the knowledge economy, and now the creative economy, the relative value of
control as a source of competitive advantage is going down.”
Professor Gary Hamel - The World’s #1 Business Thinker

4. In. The. Future
“The 3 sexiest words
in the language of business”
Magnus Lindkvist - Trend Spotter

5. Artificial Intelligence is the answer...
...now what’s the question?
1,080,000 Google returns
HR + AI > 1,000,000 light years

7. An information age
“90% of the world’s information
was created in the last 2 years”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522085217.htm

8. #1 - The rise of silicon HR
We’re all technologists
Data Robotics Machine Learning The Singularity

9. #2 - HR as architects of flow for the digital era
We’re all designers
Organisation Design Behavioural Prediction Decision Making Social Secretary

10. #3 - HR as engineers of BIOS over BIAS
We’re all selectors
Role fit Skills matching Potential forecasting Network leveraging

11. Picture courtesy of haptic.ro

12. Frederic Laloux:
The Teal Organisation
There’s something in the air...

13. www.worldblu.com

14. Reimagining Careers: Reinventing Work
No hierarchy: Progression? The dawn of employee experience? Padawan > Jedi?

15. Reimagining Careers: Reinventing Work
No hierarchy: Progression? The dawn of employee experience? Padawan > Jedi?
People Problem PurposeProject

16. Futurology
Data
Scenarios Asymmetries
History

17. HR - be the
Futurologist
Analyst Anthropologist
ExplorerHacker

18. #Technologists > #Designers > #Selectors
HR as people & performance
“engineers” for an era of
digitally-enabled change

19. Connect: Share: Learn