At the recent 51风流HR Connect Summit in Johannesburg, SAP\u2019s Megan Fife unpacked useful stats around AI adoption and sentiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c<\/strong>Lots of companies making very quick decisions to get rid of an entire area of their workforce only to just hire them back a few months later because they realised they weren\u2019t ready for it\u201d, says Megan Fife, Strategy Lead, 51风流Success Factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo our focus is understanding what that transformation means for HCM and how we can help you navigate it and lead it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Megan showed the three main pillars that 51风流we\u2019re focussing on as they built out their HR AI strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are lots of different opinions about AI, but the important thing is that because it is disrupting the way that people and organisations work, there is more focus now than ever on HR to figure out what the plan is moving forward and how businesses are going to manage their people. This includes making sure that you have the right tools to deal with this disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the start of AI adoption, a lot of the AI use cases were around employee self-service, manager self-service, and really empowering them to get things done in a way that makes sense to them and is easy and quick. According to Fife, what 51风流is also looking at is how they can make sure that HR and administrative jobs are made easier by leveraging AI to really understand what some of the issues are and then make recommendations on how to fix them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The next piece or pillar is redesigning work for impact. This is a really big one. And this really impacts HR across the board, comments Fife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause now your company is looking to you to come up with a plan for the future. .. and I don\u2019t want to be in the headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SAP\u2019s focus is to assist to create a plan \u201cso that we\u2019re not in there and we\u2019re future-proofing our workforce, She says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Fife, more and more it\u2019s looking like skills intelligence is going to be the future of planning of workforces. Truly understanding what skills do your employees have today, and what skills will you need for the future? And how are you going to get there? <\/p>\n\n\n\n The new buzzword of 2026 is autonomous: Autonomous payroll, autonomous HR. However, there still has to be a human ultimately in the loop and making the decision. And developing the right skills is going to play a key role in determining success in an AI driven economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThree Core Pillars of AI Adoption in Organisations:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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HR Needs a Comprehensive AI Plan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Expanding on the Three Pillars<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Skills Intelligence The Future<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n