You’ve decided to incorporate AI into your HR tech stack. You’re eager to see the technology start making your job easier, including automating some of the most tedious manual tasks involved in recruiting, hiring, managing and retaining talent.
While you look forward to having AI create more efficiency within your department, don’t overlook the potential for an even bigger impact. By integrating your AI-powered platform across multiple departments and functions, you can help drive results that move both your team and the entire organization forward.
The key to achieving those results is tapping into the data analytic superpower of AI.
“AI is really good at synthesizing a lot of data from a lot of different places,” says Ian White, founder and CEO/CTO of ChartHop. “As an HR practitioner, maybe you’re doing an engagement survey or a performance review. You need to read through hundreds and hundreds of documents to get insight into what is impacting the organization. AI can very quickly summarize and sift through a lot of different data and give you insights.”
3 Things AI Can Help You Do Better
1. Organizational Design
Yes, AI can help streamline the process of screening job candidates and onboarding new hires. But it also can guide decisions that reshape the whole organization.
Pilar Muner, VP of People and Talent at ChartHop, shares the example of how AI helped her department connect the dots between team dynamics and the business goal of client and revenue retention.
“I wanted to look at revenue retention, churn patterns and behavior over the past three years,” Muner says. “I did all of that using AI for data analytics.”
Specifically, she used AI to combine data from a variety of sources, including both HR data and business data. Based on the insights the analysis revealed, the company decided to restructure its customer success team and redefine the role of its Customer Success Manager. “Having that kind of connection between the business data and the people data was what led us to that conclusion,” Muner says.
When AI’s analytical capabilities are applied this way across multiple departments, the results can guide the entire organizational structure toward better alignment with business goals.
2. Compensation Decisions
Another way AI can help organizations gain a competitive edge is by enabling faster and more informed decision-making about employee compensation. AI can combine data such as pay rates, performance reviews, turnover trends, engagement scores and labor market information to show where compensation changes would have the biggest business impact. That kind of analysis allows HR and finance to target pay investments where they are most likely to protect critical talent and reduce costly attrition.
Citing a client case involving a review of compensation benchmarking data, Muner notes that the ability to speed up the process was a major AI advantage.
“Analyzing it manually would have taken 40 to 80 hours, even if you were technically literate,” she says. “Leveraging AI to do a massive market data analysis takes maybe four hours.”
White emphasizes that AI can’t remove the human role in determining fair compensation. “The AI is not going to make any decisions about how people should be compensated,” he says. “But AI can notice patterns that come out in a performance or compensation review.”
3. Future-Proofing
AI-powered business analytics can aid organizations in creating strategies to ensure their future sustainability. For example, it can help your HR department forecast staffing needs based on sales targets and market trends. That way, headcount decisions can match business priorities rather than historical hiring patterns alone.
AI can also help your organization understand emerging risks that may threaten its future success. For example, it can detect patterns in absenteeism, turnover, engagement or manager behavior and combine them with operational data to get a fuller picture of the potential consequences. That allows quicker action from HR and other leaders to turn things around.
“I’m seeing organizations changing their hiring forecasting needs relative to AI through increasing AI experts/internal tools team, adding AI engineering roles on the R&D side, reducing hiring spend in favor of software spend, and prioritizing AI skills in the hiring process,” Muner says.
How to Ensure a Smooth and Secure AI Adoption
Get clarity on the organizational goals you’re targeting with the use of AI
“In HR, for us to have the largest impact, we have to understand how what we do translates to what the business needs” Muner says.
Create one central depository for storing and managing all business data
That creates transparency and broader confidence in the reliability of the data. “We have a single source of truth for all of our data, which makes it a lot easier for us to have conversations,” Muner says. “Having the data be a single source of truth is super beneficial, because you’re not going to five different platforms to get it. We can all look at the same platform and see the same data at the same time.”
Protect your data
Take steps to ensure that sensitive and confidential employee data doesn’t get in front of the wrong eyes. Muner notes that the ChartHop platform keeps all AI activity contained within a single environment, eliminating the need to download, export or move sensitive employee data into external tools. It also enforces existing security permissions across all AI interactions, so users can only access the data they’re already authorized to see.
Keep humans in the loop
Even as you’re harnessing AI to improve your organization’s operations and decision-making, it’s important to understand its limitations. Muner recalls a recent conversation with a CEO about how AI might change the way employers do workforce planning.
“Part of his conclusion was, ‘I think it’s going to elevate the people who can do the human parts really well,’” Muner says. “There’s so much complexity to the way we think and what we do that even the most sophisticated AI models can’t replace that, nor would we necessarily want them to.”
White concurs, offering this summary of AI’s role as a partner with HR leaders:
“AI is going to do a great job of bringing a lot of information together—getting the answers fast, automating a lot of things—but it doesn’t replace the critical work of the people leader, working with their business stakeholders, their employees, to help build the best organization possible.”
By having a clear vision of the business goals you’re targeting with your implementation of AI technology and following these guidelines as you navigate the process, you can steer your organization beyond just saving time and eliminating repetitive tasks toward transformational improvements.
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