One of our partners has revealed another opportunity for HR to choose a more strategic road in the journey to business performance. IBM Global Services conducted a survey about HR transformation and reveals their findings in the report, A New Approach, A New Capability: The strategic side of Human Resources. It opens with this warning from former SHRM president and CEO, Helen Drinan:

“If HR does not force its way into the heart of strategic planning in organizations, it will default to a technical and transactional dead end.”

Because of the familiar talent management/workforce issues—talent shortages, workforce demographics, increased global competition, and more—organizations are now looking to the human resources (HR) function to go beyond the delivery of cost-effective administrative services and provide expertise on how to leverage human capital to create true marketplace differentiation.

Facing these challenges, many HR organizations have been actively revamping to more effectively deliver the strategic insights the business requires. According to the report, organizations should focus on three areas to improve their strategic HR capability:

1. Enable HR professionals to apply human capital data and information – on par with what the CFO would expect in Finance – to drive business decisions.

3. Build a roadmap for HR transformation that builds momentum and embeds strategic changes into the DNA of the business.

The demand for HR transformation is growing. Join us at Taleo WORLD to learn more about Performance 2.0 and how your organization can benefit. On Tuesday, Tim Ringo, the Global Leader for IBM's Human Capital Management practice, will give his insights into what leading edge organizations are doing to transform their workforce and develop a strategic HR capability.