Human Capital Management - Must evolve from RTB to CTB | GTB Play Arena

We have been through the Industrial age and now living through the midlife of Information Age. Knowledge Economy was an alliteration that caught amongst the business leagues post year 2000 has pushed the envelope further as it brought to bear an undeniable influence of Human Capital Assets and the Leaders of Talent Management.

Trend is more than ever before HR leaders are scaling to the peak of corporate echelons as well rounded true blue business leaders. Importantly Women who have been in the HR leagues are breaking the Glass Ceiling. What beckons is whether the powers of talent break new ground to take on both the challenges and opportunities of now and future.

We have seen a mushrooming trend of Entrepreneurs bloom in the Small Business arena picking the HR portfolio in the last two decades than any time in the past. This has plugged the gap as fillers to accommodate the frenetic pace of human capital intensive business albeit with tolerable in competencies.

Often times, HR folks are accused of being stereotypes & reactive support functionalists. Most HR leaders of the yore weren't acquainted with 360 Degree business imperatives while the dynamics of transformation agenda at Organisations expect challenging status quo & innovating against the run of business as a basic necessity to steer corporations in times of dynamic global change & uncertainty.

As Chieftains of the most important strategic asset of the firm - “TalentedPeople”, the imperative is to lend leadership & innovation on how they attract, engage, nurture, develop & retain top talents? This is a big problem areas and a big ticket question that is staring at most leaders.

Technology plays a crucial part in the talent management sweepstakes as is evidenced from the recent large deal acquisitions of IBM, Oracle and SAP. The three giants have admittedly consumed Kenexa , Taleo & Successfactors for their ability to bring in software assets that connect with the talents on the social networking fabric. They seek to listen to what they say & to see whats transacted on the social sites and derive meaning which will then guide their leaders in strategic decisions. Relationship analysis is the job handed to the new breed of employees- Data Scientists!! A Big Data Agenda for sure.

While technology plays a pivotal role, artificial intelligence isn’t yet there to replace the human touch. Particularly so when high touch and soft handle are required at understanding aspirations, limitations along with complex human relationship semantics - be it in the physical work world or the socially connected flat virtual world.

The shifts of global power and influence are certainly getting distributed from west to east. A new economic architecture is being evolved yielding to the pressures and pulls of an interconnected world grappling with change factors of changing political and economic horizon. Post the ushering of third world nations , facebook & likes are heralding a 4th World. They are both growing in enormity as well as in their telling influence.Recent uprising at Egypt have show us how !!!

In these times of uncertainty, change is a constant and predicting the change direction and timing the transformation with agility is the mandate for the Chief Executive of the Global , Glocal Corporations.

Machines and Software can change at the click of the button but to expect the vast talents spread across the chasms of generations, aspiration , cultures & geographies of most Global MNC’s is expectation wish list whose time hasn’t yet arrived.


It is in the above context that the Human Capital Executive is charted with a Premier Challenge of shifting gears from Run the Business ( RTB ) to Change & Grow the Business mandate ( CTB,GTB). Many Corporate Boards have realized this in the recent times. The Vineet Nayar's incredible story on Employees First & Customers Second at HCL Technologies is an example worth emulating.

The challenge presents the biggest realm of Innovation possibility for leaders to renew and redefine the ways they engage in attracting, engaging , nurturing , developing and retaining talented assets. For every talent is different from another and is unique therefore how we plan to accommodate their uniqueness , their life cycle in the companies those hire & engage them , customers they serve is the agenda that is the BIG Game Change at some of the smartest companies around.

These are challenging times , yet very interesting passage of time amidsts the Information Age. Knowing isn’t enough as it seems , predicting is the high stakes play for the future. People loath uncertainty - evolving certainty and delivering innovation & productivity is the sub rule of the big game change. The games have begun , it is the folks who recognize the subtle shifts and transform who will be winners ( importantly survivors ) into the future.

Reverse Social Security delivery in India by ChandraBabu Naidu

The devastating years of the recession years began from 1937-38 under the Roosevelt era . The Social Security Act was drafted by President Roosevelt's committee on economic security, the act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. By passing this act, President Roosevelt became the first president to advocate the protection of the elderly. The act aside addressing several factors of old age , retrials , health care etc also took into account reaching out to the unemployed with assistance from the government.

At many countries the ability of the government to take care of the citizens in their hour of need and create humane conditions where basic necessities of people are taken care of have become the gold standard that developing and third world countries aspire for in todays times. Tax paying people in the third world countries yearn for a layer of protection, insurance , providence etc when they face dire situations like the impending deep recession looming large and yet to hit with impact in countries like India.

While Roosevelt 's government made provisions and created the social security act by well thought of public policy , India seems to be heading towards providing social security to a certain sections of the vast billions of people in a peculiar manner.

Even if i were to word this phase of the blog as a satire there is an icing on the cake as the poor often times are exploited are at the receiving end of the goodies during the great general elections.

Free soaps like the record load waiver dished out by the ruling UPA or prevention of increment in petrol and LPG ( In Andhra ) prices giving the much needed cover to the common man against steep inflationary pressure is a respite indeed. At least to some. And these are always welcome.

Be it color TV's or 2 rupees rice schemes or loan waivers or free power or free laptops (as promised by the ever in waiting PM ) people have come to benefit greatly and surprisingly some of the prepoll promises have been kept and delivered by the elected representatives.

What Chandrababu Naidu has done by announcing a cash transfer pre poll soap is some thing unprecedented!!! It might defy logic as to how the exchequer will bear the expense but if looked at differently i see a glimmer of hope for the poor who brace them selves every 5 years at the great carnival of general election. If their stars are shining bright then when an government comes down crumbling mid term the goodies come their way earlier than the 5 year wait.

Imagine , Down South of India you cannot afford to put up a poll plank with out the de facto goodies which have become the benchmark manifesto of sorts. If the party i s not offering free power , two rupees rice , loan waivers , COLOR TV's then the party isn't a serious political force. As to daru or local liquor those have been flowing freely at elections since the last 60 years.

Therefore imagine when the political parties are forced to follow Chandrababu Naidus prepoll soap like the 2000 rupees he is promising as cash transfer to women in the family below the poverty line, It is akin to delivering social security in reverse order. Knowing Naidu he is sure to pull of this trick with a commendable degree of aplomb and accuracy of execution. Delivering cash to the poor directly in there ATM at the neighborhood.

At least the we can push the tyranny of the political goons to the back stage. Tyranny of caste , religion and the marathi manoos and ram sene brand of politics played by the present opportunists.

And the cash for votes is lot better than the cash for votes witnessed in lok shabha last year during the debate in nuclear deal times or what happens when several horses are traded to amass numbers to prove majority at the floor of the house.

Be it cash or lap tops one thing is sure , Diebold , NCR , Wincor , Seimens , HP , IBM,Dell , Microsoft et al will get a lot of business , thanks to Advani and Chandrababu :-)

Let there be more elections in India and let there me more free beeies reaching the poor and needy..can we call this democratic innovation in reaching social security to the poor in India.

Until our politician aren't able to tell our citizens ask what they can give the country and not what the country can can give them or until they tell what the can give the nation and not what they get to loot when in the seat of power the poll rigmarole shall continue...jab that the end nahi hoga ......abhi picture baki hai mere dost !!!!