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Using AI to Transform Organizations: The Promise and the Barriers
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Last updated November 5, 2025 As businesses continue to navigate the ever-evolving challenges of today’s dynamic...
Podcast: Who has the Best People Analytics Team? And what does the Future hold for Alexis?
In this podcast episode, host Cole Napper interviews Alexis Fink, former leader at Meta, Microsoft, and Intel, about her “post-corporate season,” where she now runs the People Analytics Board for I4CP, collaborates with USC’s Center for Effective Organizations, writes, teaches, and helps organizations navigate AI and the future of work. She also discusses the upcoming SIOP Leading Edge Consortium, the evolution of people analytics beyond dashboards, and the importance of balancing I/O psychology with data science and business acumen to drive meaningful organizational value.
Podcast: The Future of HR: Exploiting the Ambiguity
The role of HR continues to evolve, yet ambiguity still surrounds its true impact at the executive level. In this episode, John Boudreau explores how courage and clarity can reshape the CHRO’s position in modern organizations.From bet-the-badge moments to building credibility with boards and senior teams, he highlights why courage is essential to turning ambiguity into opportunity.
USC CEO Webinar: Driving Organizational Change with Data – in the Age of AI
Over the past quarter century, workforce/people analytics has become central to the work of HR. Yet good analytical work often fails to gain traction. And even though AI is poised to transform how analytics is conducted, it cannot solve the challenge of integrating data-based insights with effective organizational change. Integrating analytical practices with organization development and change practices can help each of these HR specialties be stronger, driving better overall outcomes for the organization, and make the best use of what AI has to offer.
Uncertain Times Call for Analytics
We are living through a tornado of change in organizations. When things change, our old practices often don’t work as well – or, we’re worried that they won’t work as well. So, we change them – often on pretty shaky evidence. But most of the time when we do this, we are looking at a symptom – not at the root cause. Like a Sisyphean game of whack-a-mole, that root cause keeps throwing up problems in new places.
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