A smart HR platform will help your entire organisation to stand out: a digital workplace, chatbots, AI, machine learning or  innovative apps, ... Via the SAP Cloud Platform, business application developpers can create value-added apps to your existing SAP HR solution – SAP HCM or SAP SuccessFactors – without the need for major investments.  Bart Van Hove, our expert in creating SAP extensions on SAP SuccessFactors, tells us how to tackle concrete business challenges with innovative solutions.

This episode contains an interview with Andreas De Neve and Tom Mentens about the resume matching app, also called 'the recruiter cockpit'. This app analyses the resume of an applicant not only based on the available words but also on related skills.

Andreas De Neve is CEO at TechWolf, a machine learning startup. And Tom Mentens is competence lead and HR transformation consultant at Flexso for People.

This episode contains an interview with Tom Mentens about Artificial Intelligence in HR. Technology is part of every business practice, also Human Resources. Robotics and AI can be real accelerators for your business and transformation trajectories. Tom tells us what it is, why you should use it and gives insights in the possibilities of AI. 

Tom Mentens, an HR business consultant at Flexso for People, is an experienced HR professional who follows all tech-news on AI. He also gave a presentation during the SAP Festival about Customer and candidate experience linked with AI.

This episode contains an interview with Eline Jacobs about how flat and flexible organizational structures can fit in HRIS systems.

It seems that every single organization is looking to flatten out their structure. HR information systems can help grasp complexity of today’s workforce challenges. In this episode we discuss the effect of the digital evolution, different types of organizations and the choices to be made to translate new organization structures into an HRIS suite.

Eline Jacobs, is an experienced HR business consultant at Flexso for People. She currently has both project- and change management roles in different types of organizations.

Linked Flexso blog: 

https://www.flexsoforpeople.com/en/stories/how-hris-supports-flat-and-flexible-organizations/

Other sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2015/07/06/the-5-types-of-organizational-structures-part-1-the-hierarchy/#269f14205252

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2015/07/08/the-5-types-of-organizational-structures-part-2-flatter-organizations/#82f74fd6dac3

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2015/07/13/the-5-types-of-organizational-structures-part-3-flat-organizations/#620f9d1e6caa

https://www.hrmagazine.be/nl/artikels/detail/agile-oude-wijn-in-nieuwe-zakken?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_NL_w1_art1

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/10/28/the-successfactors-employee-central-organization-structure/

This episode contains an interview with Lieve Heylen about the future of SAPHR and the link with HANA and SuccessFactors. SAP has recently updated the roadmap for SAPHR with different routes to take with your HR solutions. Lieve tells us what options companies have and which parameters to take into account when planning for the future.

Lieve Heylen, an experienced SAPHR professional  at Flexso for People, is mainly working on customer relationships with our SAP HR customers. She is fully up to date with the latest SAP HR news and especially interested in the roadmap for Time & payroll projects in Belgium.

This episode contains an interview with Dimitri Dupont about Continuous Performance. This topic is already trending for a long time and more and more companies are bringing this new way of working into practice. Dimitri tells us why 'Pay for performance' is not the only way anymore and how you can assess if you are ready to implement this evaluation method yourself.

Dimitri Dupont, an HR competence lead at Flexso for People, has a lot of experience in implementing performance management processes and in general HR processes, HR architecture and HR technology. He followed and implemented quite some implementations of continuous performance management at different clients himself and wrote a blogpost about it.

Linked Flexso blog: 

https://www.flexsoforpeople.com/en/insights-and-events/pay-for-performance-is-old-school/

This episode contains an interview with Tom Mentens about Robotic Process Automation. Technology is part of every business practice, also Human Resources. The time is now to stop doing boring, repetitive administrative work, and start using RPA. Tom tells us what it is, why you should use it and gives tips on how to build a business case. 

Tom Mentens, an HR business consultant at Flexso for People, is an experienced HR professional who implemented RPA before in his own team. He follows all tech-news on RPA and AI, linked with HR. 

This episode contains an interview with Bart Cools about HRIS user adoption. Implementing a new HR information system brings not only new technology into the business but also redesigned processes and other changes. Bart talks about the challenges HR faces in this context and why HRIS user adoption is more than only change management. 

Bart Cools, HR transformation lead at Flexso for People, is specialized in helping organizations to rewrite the rules for how they organize, recruit, develop, manage and engage the workforce of today and tomorrow.

Linked Flexso blog: 

https://www.flexsoforpeople.com/en/insights-and-events/transforming-hr-going-digital/ 

Is ERP more than an integration tool for your business processes? Could it also be the driver of innovation? SAP has recently announced new releases of S/4HANA Cloud. These new solutions are particularly interesting for medium-sized companies, as they are both user-friendly and innovative. You can rapidly implement new technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, Machine Learning as well as other AI applications on your ERP platform.

Listen to the podcast on the maturity of S/4 Cloud ERP.

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This episode contains an interview with Eline Jacobs about HR Analytics. This quickly evolving topic is not easy to put into practice and raises a lot of questions these days. In this episode we discuss definitions, tips and tricks for getting started with HR Analytics and how to leverage HR analytics with SAP SuccessFactors.

Eline Jacobs, an HR business consultant at Flexso for People, is an experienced HR project manager and has been following HR analytics with a great interest for the last few years.

Linked Flexso blog: 

https://www.flexsoforpeople.com/en/insights-and-events/real-time-hr-analytics/ 

Other sources:

• Kavanagh, M. J., Thite, M., Johnson, R., (2014) Human Resource Information Systems: Basics, Applications, and Future Directions. California: SAGE Publications
• Guenole, N., Ferrar, J., Feinzig, S., (2017)  The Power of People: Learn how successful organizations use workforce analytics to improve business performance. Indiana: FT Press