‘HR in the cloud: It’s inevitable,’ is a single article extracted from a broader collection of articles from the Deloitte ‘Human Capital Trends 2011’ publication. A key theme of this collection is the characterisation of classic people domains such as talent, leadership and technology into a construct of ‘evolutionary vs revolutionary’ trends.
Cloud, be it software, platform or infrastructure as a service represents a truly revolutionary or more classically, ‘disruptive’ trend in the way business gets done today. This trend extends beyond the obvious commercial advantages of cloud in terms of agility and cost effectiveness, to the opportunities for crafting new ways of harnessing the latent or trapped capacity within organisations. Inevitable? Yes. Revolutionary? Absolutely. Mystifying, not necessarily…
