The November HR Roundtable was doing its best to play the part of soothsayer and look ahead to what hasn’t happened yet. The topic was “Anticipating the Shift,” which most companies miss. There are endless examples of how companies thought they’d stay relevant no matter what, and they ended up disappearing.
This forum was trying to look at some of the reluctance to change as well as how HR can be included instead of on the outside looking in, or left to pick up the pieces of what occurs when the “shift” happens. Here were the starter questions: