Getting Ready For The Ride
Human Capital|April 2018

A successful HR transformation today is much akin to "creating land at sea", one that can be achieved via Advanced Analytics. With the underlying theme of 'transformation', this makes a case for HR organisations to find better ways to leverage advanced analytics, and use it to build an agile, responsive, and focused workforce.

Sunit Sinha
Getting Ready For The Ride

Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong is one of those marvels of human ingenuity and perseverance that it makes even the most habitually indifferent to stop and wonder. Bridging the chasm between reality and science fiction, this mammoth endeavour to essentially "create land at sea", has been the result of indomitable human will contending with an ambitious deadline. Meanwhile, HR organisations in global companies have a unique and an ambitious deadline to grapple with. In today's environment, HR is under pressure to understand the workforce in greater depth in order to recruit, develop, and retain talent effectively. At the same time, the senior management is largely invested in having concise, up-to-date information about employees and related external factors that can be used to make business decisions and mobilize talent in line with the changing strategies. HR needs to constantly ask itself, "How can we help beat the competition?"

The unlikely analogy with the gargantuan Chek Lap Kok still begs an explanation, though. For the uninitiated, Hong Kong's airport has been built at sea on reclaimed land. The italicized words emphasize the almost 'meeting-of-the elements' romanticism that this structure emulates. Islands were levelled, the sea was forced back, and typhoons were braved.

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