HR Real Insights

Reaching for the stars

Aerospace and defense firms step up hiring of engineers and skilled workers

Enter the next frontier of productivity with conversational AI agents

Boosting human performance and productivity with the help of artificial intelligence.

Does your organizational design meet the evolving customer-centric world?

Today’s companies need to take a hard look at how, and if, their organizational design is helping them meet customer needs and demands. By sitting back, businesses may soon find customers looking to spend their dollars elsewhere.

Is your business using AI to transform HR and the employee experience?

To attract and retain talent, businesses must focus on the employee experience they are creating. With technology improving personal lives, employees expect to see the same intuitive and up-to-date technology at work. When it comes to HR, both current and prospective employees will expect improved experiences within recruitment, training and development, and collaboration and productivity.

Implementing HCM cloud

Tackling the “easy-to-use” paradox with effective change management.

Plugging into gig economy & its disruption of traditional talent model

Self-employment has been on the rise and is becoming widely referred to as the “gig economy.” With one in every three Americans working as a freelancer, this movement goes far beyond popular examples like Uber and TaskRabbit.

The role of the strategic thinker and business partner

Cultivating a staff with strategic partnering capabilities can help drive better business outcomes

Driving agility from the top down: Characteristics of an agile leader

Change isn’t new, but our need to change quickly and all of the time is.

Tips for getting the change management right

It’s an altogether too common scenario. A company makes a major technology purchase and spends large amounts of time, effort, and money implementing the new system. But once it’s up and running, it fails to deliver the expected benefits.

Redefine your Contingent Workforce Management strategy

Contingent Workforce Management is one of the most important spend areas for many organizations. Key indicators include the following statistics.

The boundaryless workforce: the right talent, right away

In today’s fast-changing business environment, companies need to be able to ramp up resources quickly and efficiently to remain competitive and cost effective.

Banking on better employee engagement

Successfully engaging employees is no easy feat—especially when you have hundreds of thousands of them.

HR and risk join forces to modernize HR

The conversation surrounding IA is massively different than it was 12 months ago, and will continue to change as we move into the future.

Join new KPMG group to advance women in risk field

“You have two hands for a reason.”

Getting your company ready for Generation Z

Learn how, as Generation Z takes its place in the workforce, organizations must adapt their talent programs to accommodate the traits of these new workers so they can continue to attract and hire the best and the brightest among them.

Candidates as consumers

How is your talent brand and employee experience attracting the best talent?

Give your employees a purpose and watch productivity rise

Explore how 21st century enterprises will increasingly need to create a purpose-driven culture if they want to attract and keep the best talent in the years ahead.

Serenity now: Business transformation can be messy, but it can also be harm

Learn how KPMG's professionals helped a global pharmaceutical leader’s HR organization harmonize technologies, services and processes following a period of transformation in which the company had completed more than two dozen acquisitions and divestitures.

When your co-worker is a robot

Learn how intelligent automation is not so much a threat to the human workforce as it is the next evolutionary step toward ever-smarter, productive, and innovative employees.

Artificial intelligence is changing the hiring game

Currently, most businesses are using analytics and intelligence rather than true artificial intelligence. However, big technology organizations that are inherently data-centric already engage artificial intelligence in recruiting functions.

The new model to wow customers

In a world of instant access, constant connectivity and seemingly unlimited options, customers have the power. And delivering a great customer experience is critical to the survival of your business.

The greatest business intelligence asset: Your HR managements system

The vast potential is growing as vendors are rolling out new capabilities to include things like artificial intelligence tools, machine learning, and mobile apps.

Making the supply chain a critical part of customer experience

To be successful, organizations need to understand what their true cost to serve is. And with the data available today you are able to assess what your cost to serve is and make more informed decisions.

Uranium supplier embraces an enriched experience in the cloud

Learn how KPMG helped a supplier of enriched uranium—an integral player in the ongoing maturation of the nuclear power industry—update and enhance processes by moving to the cloud.

Tackling the IT talent gap in today’s digital world

Explore the importance of creating an environment that provides employees with meaningful opportunities, recognizes their value and boosts their satisfaction.

Intelligent life sciences with automation

As life sciences organizations are pressed to lauch products as cost-effectively and quickly as possible, explore the advantages that intelligent automation (IA) can provide in reaching these goals.

Change management: Caring for the most vulnerable population

A large-scale projects, like modernizing the State of Tennessee’s Medicaid IT system, need a flexible approach involving people, processes, and technology.

The new transformer: mastering cloud HR

Explore and learn about four steps to help organizations better plan and optimize their HR cloud initiatives.

Creating a culture of innovation

Explore the impact of digital labor on the HR function, and how organizations can create a more effective culture of innovation utilization technology.

How will human labor go the automated route?

As the labor force is changing to meet the needs of advanced applications of automation, many jobs will be reconfigured and redesigned. Learn about how employees may be impacted and how leaders can overcome these challenges.

Cultivating innovation skills in your workforce

For digital and human workforces to complement each other, companies must encourage innovation to become a core competency of their employees. Explore the four steps employers can take to make that happen.

The human resources function's role in leveraging and enabling digital labor

Learn about what digital labor means from the perspective of the HR organization, and what potential issues organizations need to deal with, from Mike DiClaudio, a principal in the U.S. firm and an executive member of KPMG’s People and Change practice.