Sen Soumyasanto - Digital HR Strategy

Soumyasanto Sen has done a masterful job of weaving together the emerging digital agenda for business and HR. He reports how business and HR will have to transform to have sustainable impact. This is an outstanding compendium of new-age thinking and action.

Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group

Digital HR Strategy is a comprehensive and useful book that shows any organization how to understand the vast impact of digital business on all aspects of work, organizations and HR.

Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst

We are in the midst of the Digital Age as organizations and as individuals. It can make people feel overwhelmed, unequipped and afraid because they lack clarity about how it affects them and their work. In this book, Soumyasanto Sen eases that anxiety and gives people solid connections on how they can thrive personally, organizationally and as a culture. His strategic approach is tangible and applicable to all industries. I thoroughly enjoyed Digital HR Strategy and will be using it as a basis for how to embrace the digital reality of today and the future.

Steve Browne, SHRM-SCP, Vice President of Human Resources, LaRosas, Inc, and author, HR on Purpose

As we undergo a new industrial revolution, the digital economy is transforming every aspect of how we live, operate and work in society. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the rapid pace of disruption, but in Digital HR Strategy, global influencer, author and thought leader Soumyasanto Sen brings his experience and expertise to the fore, and offers a practical, innovative guide to navigating this often uncertain landscape. In far-reaching detail, Sen expertly illustrates how to construct a sustainable digital transformation strategy one that both harnesses technology and cyber innovation while keeping people at the heart of everything they do. In the spirit of collaboration, Sen draws on his all-encompassing knowledge, drawing together the myriad factors driving change that combine to create a digital-ready workforce. Any business leader, learner or HR professional with an interest in the ways digital transformation intersects with human capabilities will benefit from this compelling volume. In Digital HR Strategy, Sen has authored a stimulating read and makes a unique, significant contribution to the dynamic arena of HR research.

Ester Martinez, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, People Matters

Work, workers and workplaces are all evolving from the analogue world to the digital. The HR function will need to lead the transformation, but to do that it needs to transform itself. Digital HR Strategy outlines the possibilities.

Abhijit Bhaduri, Digital transformation coach, author, The Digital Tsunami, and host of the podcast Dreamers & Unicorns by PeopleStrong

The story of digital HR transformation is about much more than technology. Its about having the right mindset, its about working with and for employees and its about leveraging people data for good. It certainly isnt about taking the same tired old analogue processes and simply digitizing them. Above all this, digital is a wonderful opportunity for HR to make a difference to the business, to the workforce and to the function itself. Soumyasanto Sen captures all this and much, much more in Digital HR Strategy. I am sure that this book will be read and read again by HR leaders seeking to make a difference in their organizations.

David Green, writer, speaker and consultant on people analytics and the future of work, and Executive Director, Insight222

Soumyasanto Sen is a thought leader in HR technology this is a first-rate book.

Gautam Ghosh, HR thought leader and influencer, and ex-Director, Talent Branding, Flipkart

Soumyasanto Sens book is a welcome guide to HRs long-needed transformation to become a strategic engine for success through humans. The author asks the right questions and proposes an excellent blend of ideas, methods and tools. He dares to take on the concrete migration to a post-Ulrichian world where many rules are still unwritten and many solutions are still available. An enjoyable read, which puts the humans in the centre of technology. It is easily accessible and highly recommended also for newbies in the area of digital strategy.

Frode Hvaring, Chair, Digital Leadership Lab, Geneva Business School

The biggest innovation in this book for the entire HRM discipline is that Soumyasanto Sen is not a replica of what I call the digital HR reincarnation crowd. Typically, when HR reincarnators write about digital HRM they pretend that digitization is just another HR function, just a little more technical and agile. But this book shows that this might be a false notion. The author presents an entirely new path to digitizing HRM, with changed paradigms and premises. The new world he is talking about is in the midst of a risky and unusual metamorphosis into a new digital reality, where HR models of the past are not capable of coping with the new world. When companies decide to build an HRM system that fits the next generation, they cant afford to ignore this book. It delivers a blueprint for implementing new principles of digital HRM in practice and offers a great opportunity to completely rethink the HR function.

Kai Reinhardt, Professor for Business Administration, Organizational Behaviour and HR, HTW Berlin

The area of digital transformation is fraught with misconceptions and failed attempts to apply a 20th-century mindset to modern organizations. In Digital HR Strategy, Soumyasanto Sen looks to unravel this and provides a useful guidebook for HR practitioners and organization builders.

Andrew Spence, Workforce Strategist, Glass Bead Consulting

The organizational world is changing fast. Technology is an important driver for transformations. HR can contribute a lot to successful transformations, and at the same time HR is transforming as well. In his book Soumyasanto Sen guides us through the basic as well as more advanced elements of digital HR. Both HR and business leaders can learn a lot from his structured approach.

Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute

To truly reinvent work we need to drastically revisit the way we recruit and manage talent in order to unleash the real potential of the networked business, that sense of purpose and meaning that will allow people and communities to thrive. We are a society driven by digital technology that has completely enabled and transformed how we work at an unprecedented scale. The advent of AI will decimate vast amounts of the economy where routine job functions will be automated, creating a shift for HR functions struggling to cope with people innovation, pace of change, exponential technologies and always-on to a Star-Trek world that thrives in this new digital normal. Soumyasanto Sens Digital HR Strategy is a must-read as we enter this new digital age in organizational design and human experience.

Marc Coleman, Founder and CEO, UNLEASH

Digital HR Strategy is for me a cumulative knowledge repository that provides ample context, structured knowledge flow, comprehensive diagrams and useful summaries throughout. This book is the best reference to everything the enlightened HR professional needs to embark on a powerful journey to becoming a financial value creator embracing the very technologies that have propelled our sales, marketing and software development functions to mission-critical prominence. Soumyasanto Sen is one of our industrys most thorough and learned thinkers advancing the HR discipline. And his extraordinarily comprehensive book is the best preparation to navigate your own digital transformation.