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A month or so ago, the buzz was about whether HR and IT functions could—and possibly should—merge. It sounds like a bad idea—because it is. Each of the two have so many separate tasks where there is no overlap. Trying to put them together would be senseless.
The story was kicked off by something much more reasonable: a development at Moderna where the head of HR also became the head of IT (or, more likely, an IT leader also reported to the head of HR). It wasn’t a merger of the two functions. Two smaller companies since then have at least been identified as making the same change.
What was the reason? In principle, at least, it is a good one: The introduction of AI into work can and likely will be something that could touch every job. The big challenge, smarter organizations are realizing, is to actually make that happen—to get AI inserted into jobs in a way that drives efficiencies.
Earlier this year, I wrote about an amazing Harris survey showing that CEOs were desperate to show results from using AI. Three-quarters of them felt they would lose their jobs within two years if they could not. More
