HR Tech Weekly: Episode #128: Stacey Harris and John Sumser

This week: Microsoft Workplace Analytics helps understand productivity, Newton Launches Interview Scorecards to Help Make Better Hiring Decisions, 500 Startups’ Dave McClure resigns after harassment claims, Microsoft offers employees four weeks of paid family caregiver leave, DOL abandons overtime rule, and Harver Raises $8.1M to Kill the Resume.
 

HRIntelligencer 1.06

Topics: HR Intelligencer, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The Myth of a Superhuman AI, What is a Machine Learning Engineer?, 8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes, Data Science’s Dirty Little Secrets, Machine Learning Can Help HR Overcome Human Failings, What is machine learning debt?, and How does machine learning differ from “data science.”
 

AI / ML / Big Data / Predictive Analytics: Risks, Ethics, Liability Part 4 of 4

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Here we arrive at the next layer of challenge in the design of machine-led decision making. And, it has two parts. Part one involves the clarity of the recommendation. The second part involves keeping the flow of recommendations relevant to current circumstances.
 

Will the Function of HR Evolve or go the Way of the Dodo Bird?

Topics: HRExaminer, by Neil McCormick
“Currently, people still make up what we consider to be the workforce in organizations. How long will it be before the technologies John Sumser highlights each week mature and deliver solutions for not just HR processes but organizational processes as well?” – Neil McCormick
 

HRExaminer v8.26

John Sumser has a fascinating three-part series this week covering the risks, ethics, and liability being introduced to business by artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and predictive analytics. Jump in to Part 1 on HR Enterprise Software Liability, then Part 2 covering Basic Ethics Questions, and finish with Part 3 on Questions for your Vendor.


“If you want to do what other people were doing last year, spend a lot of time navel gazing, and define success according to conventional standards.” Read, When Best Practices Don’t Work from Heather Bussing.


In HRIntelligencer 1.05, John Sumser shares Why robotic automation is stumbling, How Blockchains Could Transform AI, Why So Few People Major in Computer Science?, Auditing Black-Box Predictive Models, When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Will Robots Take My Job?, and how Google’s AlphaGo DeepMind works.


On episode 127 of HR Tech Weekly: New GuideSpark Product, Workday on Medium Enterprise Organizations, Facebook gives up on making the world more open, Google and Microsoft urging court to back gay workers, and European Commission hands Google record $2.72 billion fine.


John Sumser talks with China Gorman, a successful global business executive in the Human Capital Management (HCM) sector. China is a sought-after advisor and speaker bringing the CEO perspective to the challenges of building company culture. China is the author of Data Point Tuesday blog and is published in mainstream media properties like Fortune, TLNT, and Fast Company. Listen to China Gorman on HRExaminer Radio - Executive Conversations.
 

HR Tech Weekly: Episode #127: Stacey Harris and John Sumser

This week: GuideSpark Launches New Employee Communication Product, Workday and Medium Enterprise Organizations, Facebook gives up on making the world more open, Google and Microsoft among companies urging court to back gay workers, Missouri Women Using Birth Control Could Be Denied Employment, and European Commission hammers Google with record $2.72 billion fine.
 

AI / ML / Big Data / Predictive Analytics: Risks, Ethics, Liability Part 3 of 4

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
John Sumser provides you with a list of questions for your vendor about the utilization of intelligent machines in your HR/Operations processes.

AI / ML / Big Data / Predictive Analytics: Risks, Ethics, Liability Part 2 of 4

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
“HR has been slow to adopt AI and Machine learning. The Sierra-Cedar HRTechnology Industry survey suggests that fewer that 7% of the companies they surveyed are using or considering using Machine Learning technologies in HR.” – John Sumser

HRIntelligencer 1.05

Topics: HR Intelligencer, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
This week: Why robotic automation is stumbling, How Blockchains Could Transform AI, Why Do So Few People Major in Computer Science?, Auditing Black-Box Predictive Models, When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Will Robots Take My Job?, and how Google’s AlphaGo DeepMind works.
 

AI / ML / Big Data / Predictive Analytics: Risks, Ethics, Liability Part 1 of 4

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
“Some of today’s tools (and all of tomorrow’s) do much more than record and report. They suggest, recommend, decide, evaluate, prescribe, filter, analyze, monitor, and learn. Era 1 tools could not hurt people. Era 2 tools can.” – John Sumser