Hr Tech Stack

“operations was something that really wasn't, you know, a topic of conversation or considered a function, you know, 10 years ago. And so I really felt like I, I helped that company with understanding what people operation...”

“I don't think that you are too small of a team in order to start implementing different technologies or different workflows that have automation behind them.”

“There's no other digital product that ships every 2 weeks.”

“Why does it take 4 days to go from one system to another? It shouldn't, and it's because we're using very outdated money movement rails. We're using ACH, which hasn't changed in 70 years.”

“The greatest challenge is honestly communicating and navigating systems that may not be 100% what we need. We are in the midst of an enterprise-wide system implementation project here...”

“Our human resource information systems platform is— it's the lifeblood. It's the lifeblood of any HR team that's out there because everything that happens in an employee lifecycle goes through that system...”

“Yeah, you know, my career really started several decades ago now, but it really started because, not because I knew anything about HR or payroll, to be honest, I couldn't spell it to save my life, but I, I was good with...”

“We put together a learning technology platform that aggregated both the external, internal certifications from various vendors, as well as added our own internal learning and development pieces to create customized playl...”

“Elegant design dies without technology, to be honest with you, in this day and age, you can have the beautiful thing, but if it doesn't do anything and it doesn't provide any affordances or provide a a better way or a ca...”

“Workday relies on specific developers and specialists to roll out specific parts of the employee lifecycle. And so those leaders weren't really set up to thrive and really bridge that human side and technology together t...”

“With this type of technology [MetaView], at least I have the ability to be able to discover that and get ahead of it. And if I put that fear behind, right, because of that benefit, and then I know that I can not only hel...”

“I knew that technology was a, a big way to do, to do that and make enhancements.”

“The commonalities between an everything solution and a point solution is that the data dies, right? There's so much data that occurs in organizations, so many data points that are just dying in these systems.”

“Manual or fragmented systems internally within our organization. And what I mean by that is when data lives in too many places, it lives in too many places in our organization... we're trying to figure out how to consoli...”

“The critical partners to me are internal. So it's the product team, the engineering teams who are building our product... because I am the persona that we sell to, and my team are the people who use the product.”

“Every key aspect of the TA tech that you're trying to use should relate to one of those key levers within the business because business leaders, they don't speak HREs or TAEs or whatever the different languages that a lo...”

“At that time, Mike had used a tool called the Predictive Index, which is where I work now, to really help intentionally build that culture and team. It's just a tool that's guided my career ever since.”

“The free version of Glassdoor specifically is not a comp tool. So don't rely on that.”

“Ditch Excel, graduate from that. Look at a program that's going to help you really do a good job managing compensation.”

“Waiting for the coolest solution would have only delayed engineering, re-engineering of our processes or the ability to redesign our playbook.”

“For our employees to have that access 24/7 about their benefits, It's just, it's unbeatable.”

“for me, you know, personally, everything is It's ChatGPT and Gemini and Copilot and Claude and Perplexity and Comet AI and, you know, and 8N and Zapier and all that fun stuff.”

“I would say the approvals that HR is always involved in... we have somewhat of a, of an older process where it's done through email. So you're constantly having to go through, do we have the right people? Do we have some...”

“If you're gonna experiment with AI, um, in all of the tools in your settings, there is a little toggle that's gonna say, use this information to improve my learning. Turn that off.”

“one of my proudest achievements there was leading the implementation of SuccessFactors across the entire organization while also driving at the same time the ship toward a more agile, employee-centered HR model.”

“Progress is perfection. You're not going to get a perfectly rolled out system. Never happens. So if you look at it from an iterative agile development methodology...”

“the unsexy backend work that HR spends their time working on was actually the enabler for everything they wanted on the frontend.”

“The big success was that everybody got paid. That was the most important.”

“So I think really just being an early adopter and when the tools are in front of you, dig into them, learn about them, and actually put them into practice and make use of them.”

“The first thing I really try and focus is what's the business problem we're trying to solve? So it might be really cool, something might be really cool, but what business problem are we trying to solve?”

“I tell people technology can do anything. You want it to do. You just have to be able to think that way and be able to change hearts and minds to be able to leverage the technology.”

“Where the automation really takes into effect, it helps you take out and remove those mundane pieces of doing business.”

“I believe you have to have a really strong HRIS technology, but I think where you want to be world-class and where you want something that is more of a subject matter expert technology, you really need to be willing to g...”

“I think the first thing as myself, as an HR practitioner, I always do when thinking about the trends is like, what's a trend and what's actually going to stick around? Because I think it's very easy to get distracted by...”

“we are essentially, you know, customer service. Leaders, and our customers are the employees, right? And we need to have products where we can enable them to become smarter and better.”

“My hot take for a long time has been that HR has a little bit of a guild mentality that we should loosen a little bit. And if we need an analytics expert or we need a technology expert, HR has not traditionally nurtured...”

“We have software where we can identify... who is the leading most productive and who is the least productive... How do we help them achieve more things?”

“Previ, it's an AI-powered employee benefit, and we are bringing employee pricing on premium brands to employees everywhere.”

“Some of the issues can be around systems, just purely systems, because when the business becomes of scale, you rely more and more on technology as well... And it's not often that all the systems are the same, that when t...”

“And the newest trend is the use of AI. There are several companies that are able to look at all the job postings across the country and kind of pull out what the expected compensation is for those roles and then relay it...”

“The technology that we use is live, and so I can actually check the score in the middle of the survey to see what we're doing and looking at each of the, each of the questions also has a comment section so that we can ge...”

“What I found with Previ is easy to understand, easy to socialize, and quick to street because there was very little that we needed to do to launch the program.”

“GE was really my foundation of understanding HR as a business function and not as a support function.”