HR Innovation Lab

By Maya Drøschler

HR Innovation Lab

WHY?

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• 87% of the global workforce is not engaged at work.• Eight out of ten managers have no management skills. • ‘The overwhelmed employee’ is a growing phenomenon.• Stress has become an epidemic disease.• 500 million people across the world are underemployed.

The existing HR processes have failed.

The existing HR processes have failed.

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• The gig economy is here to stay – especially young people and women are leaving the corporate world.

• Robots, AI and automation will take over a third of jobs by 2025.• Exponential technologies like AR and VR are the predecessors of

the virtual workplace which will transgress physical borders. • Social media, rating apps and public employee reviews make the

world transparent: no one can hide anymore.

Our organizations must absorb all these changes, but we don’t

know how.

Our organizations must absorb all these changes, but we don’t

know how.

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CULTURE

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• Disruptive companies outperform old brands not just because of their business idea and business model, but because of their culture.

• Innovative companies create consistency between the external business conditions and the internal cultural conditions.

• Innovation resistant companies have a growing gap between these two dimensions, the outside and the inside.

Most customers are employees. All employees are customers.

Most customers are employees. All employees are customers.

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GAPS

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• HR is a derived effect of the industrial era with its emphasis on silos and hierarchies, efficiency and cost reductions.

• The primary responsibilities of the HR department are to ensure the status quo and to mitigate risk. The mantra is to ‘avoid’: avoid employment tribunals, avoid recruiting the wrong persons, avoid poor employee survey results, avoid bad publicity.

• The organizations of the future need the opposite: creativity, innovation, pace - and a risk-taking culture.

In the future organization HR must think inclusion instead of

avoidance.

In the future organization HR must think inclusion instead of

avoidance.

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HOW?

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• We set up an independent think tank (the Lab).• We establish one or more online platforms that support digital

dialogue.• People located in Jutland/Funen meet twice a year; people located

on Zealand meet twice a year. We all meet once a year.• First meeting event: April 15th 2016 from 5pm to 8pm (Zealand). • Members of the Lab must be willing to put some of their own

resources, creativity and visions into a common pool of thought.

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WHAT?

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• Blogs and white papers• Videos and podcasts• Talks and webinars• Workshops and conferences• Networks and partnerships

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VALUES

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• Our recommendations are evidence-based – we use the available research or investigate things ourselves.

• We have strong beliefs – we believe in a more human-centric future of work.

• We are innovative – we’re not afraid to experiment with our own ways of collaborating, communicating and sharing our ideas with the world.

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…but we’re not so modern that we can do without a slide about our core values.

Please contact Maya Droeschler mayadroeschler@icloud.com for further information.