HCM and the digital future of work

From military service to enterprise tech - an unconventional career path is a feature, not a bug - especially when it comes to building AI This article is sponsored by:

Everpure APJ Ambassador Nina Sekiguchi's unconventional career path demonstrates that diversity amplifies innovation, reveals bias, and results in multi-dimensional products relevant to everyone — not just the designers.

Colourful office featuring diverse team working together around a coffee table

AI adoption is real, but so is the change required - lessons from an ASUG Talks podcast with SAP CEO Christian Klein This article is sponsored by:

In an ASUG Talks interview with Tim Clark, SAP CEO Christian Klein argues that real AI enterprise value demands redesigning business processes from the ground up — not layering AI onto existing systems.

code leading to blocks of data that look like buildings

Striking the human/AI workforce balance - human intelligence matters as much as its artificial counterpart, argues Salesforce's Marc Benioff

LLMs are important, but they're not up to muster just yet in terms of being viable human replacements, a lesson that some CEOs have yet to learn, it seems.

How Mumsnet is using AI to improve the lives of women without giving away its valuable data

MumsGPT has helped shine a light on medical misogyny, but site moderation will remain human.

AI needs to be inclusive by design – here’s how the NHS, Microsoft and GoFibre think it can be done

Audits, augmentation and appeals processes on the cards.

Monki Gras 2026 - the most important thing in open source isn't the code

A conference about prepping craft turned out to be about something more fundamental - the communities that make everything else possible.

Sue Smith's slide from Monkigras © Monkchips - Bluesky

Qualtrics X4 - new CEO Jason Maynard declares the insight gap closed, and sets sights on driving outcomes

At his first X4 summit, new Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard declared the insight gap closed and made the case that experience context is the missing ingredient in effective agentic AI — but the harder test of whether Qualtrics can shift from measuring experiences to shaping outcomes in real time

an image of Jason Maynard CEO Qualtrics on stage

'We have to come up with a plan for them' - Workday leaders on the fate of workers displaced by AI

The latest AI agents from Workday will displace a lot of 'low-level HR work' says Aneel Bhusri, its CEO. Here's what he his colleagues have to say about what this could mean for the workforce.

Joel Hellermark, Workday, in screengrab from video briefing

AI will follow the path of the industries that keep the world running This article is sponsored by:

IFS's Kevin Miller predicts that industrial AI is moving from over-promoted bolt-ons to the operating model of essential industries — foundational, dependable, and reliable.

Abstract map of the world, glowing with electricity

Workday rolls out Sana, its conversational AI gateway to enterprise work

Workday delivers a new conversational UX for its own applications and other enterprise workflows based on its acquisition of Sana

Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, speaks at Workday Rising 2024

AI will make planning uncomfortable before it makes it better This article is sponsored by:

Planful's Rowan Tonkin on how 'local truths' — hidden systems built from siloed data — are undermining your organization's planning, and how AI can expose them. Will enterprise leaders embrace the challenge?

Blocks of data that look like buildings in blue.

Something for the weekend – yes, we do need a radical plan to close the gender gap in tech; the latest 'big idea' from the UK isn't it!

Why the UK's ‘Breaking down barriers’ plan is far too unambitious to make any real difference. The 'Madeline Manifesto' would expect far more from government, education, and business/

Zombie Projects at work are killing productivity. AI can put them to rest This article is sponsored by:

Is your to-do list overrun by unfinished, abandoned Zombie Projects? Atlassian's Sven Peters sets out the strategies teams can use to cut through the clutter and stop them in their tracks.