Transforming The HR Function Through Better Business Partnering

HR has a mission: to be 'high impact'. A new operating model for HR is emerging

What is holding HR back from making the impact the business expects? Three main factors have come out of research carried out by Bersin by Deloitte and our experiences with complex clients in the field:

1. The traditional definition of the business HR role no longer meets the business and workforce challenges of the 21st century. Business leaders and sometimes the HR function itself have a dated view of HR's strategic and business potential
2. Business HR roles have often been left to evolve organically in the hope of becoming more strategic merely by centralising some activities within a traditional HR administrative group and implementing HR technology. Changes of this nature, or the use of titles such as HR Business Partner have not provided business HR teams with the tools, training or infrastructure to attain the elusive goal of 'getting strategic'