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HR technology is everywhere. This was no more evident than during this year’s HR Tech conference. The expo floor featured a plethora of platforms and start-ups (over 400), with each vendor offering a product accompanied by an array of promises. Many decision-makers, when roaming the expo floor or watching a demo, were doing so with a desire to choose the next platform. Why are they shopping for the next platform?
Because the focus tends to be on adding more platforms to fix problems, address current gaps or streamline processes within a single (or fewer) vendor, rather than designing and driving a technology ecosystem with intent.
The result for many organizations is that their HR tech stacks are growing, but their talent strategies are not advancing.
Why buying more HR tech can drift you (further) off your strategic course
Several salient factors help explain why even well-intentioned digital projects end up disconnected from your strategic intent.
First, most HR tech stacks evolve through point solutions—individual tools acquired to solve localized or immediate problems and gaps. Distributed accountability, where no one is responsible for the complete system and the operation of a patchwork of sub-optimized and unscalable processes, is an undesired outcome
