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LinkedIn

30 People & HR Analytics Groups on LinkedIn

Dear visitor!

Being on LinkedIn (as I assume) you know certainly about the groups around there and are probably a member in one or more yourself.

And maybe LinkedIn groups to exchange ideas and to connect with mind-like people are even a main reason for your profile in this business network, especially for those in Germany that left XING because it deleted all groups by the end of 2022.

But with 1+ Billion members on LinkedIn worldwide and an estimated number of 2 to 3 Million LinkedIn groups according to my internet research it may be a take a little time and effort to find the right group for you. Since I am working in Human Resources Management and focusing on People Analytics, AI, and Digital Assessment I am a member and interested in groups with these topics – as you are maybe also if HR Data is part of your job.

Yesterday I searched LinkedIn systematically for People & HR Analytics groups to get an overview, inspirations (for a planned local meetup), and further input for our upcoming Schorberg Analytics’ Market Report on People Analytics and AI in HRM (check this newsblog for further information and publication date).

The results: There were 1,000 entries on such related groups on 100 pages (+ many more with “HR Analytics” as a search term), but fortunately LinkedIn presented the relevant ones according to the number of members on the first 10 to 15 pages. I put the names of a group in a table with their links and language, and sorted them from the highest number of members downwards.

But why do I tell you that? Well, perhaps you want to get an overview about these groups too. And to safe you time and work I will send you the list in PDF for free via a personal message on LinkedIn, contact form or e-mail!

So that I know that you want to have it just like or comment on my LinkedIn post (And if you are not yet in my network: Please connect also in order to sent it to you) – or contact me.

I wish you a great weekend!

Stefan Klemens

PS: Want to exchange ideas on Human Resources, people analytics, digital assessment, or artificial intelligence in HRM? Then network, write a message and/or make an appointment for an online meeting. Or the classic way: phone call.

And: You like my work and the content I regularly share? Then I’m happy about a Like or comment on LinkedIn. Thank you! 🙂 🙋‍♂️🌳

Foto: Stefan Klemens (showing the skyline of the Düsseldorf Medienhafen in northern direction with the Rhine Tower)

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Digital Assessment

Digital Assessment of Leadership Judgement

Dear guest!

On this page you will find soon more information about our special offering on digital assessment of leadership judgement including our literature list: Below you find an excerpt with 15 entries of it.

Schorberg Analytics focuses on HRM and three areas: People Analytics, AI, and Digital Assessment. These days we are creating a special offering for leadership assessment with an interesting situational judgment test (SJT) that measures decision making – a critical success factor for individuals, teams, and companies.

In preparing this new leadership assessment offer, we have researched useful literature: Below is an excerpt with 15 entries from our full list that may be helpful for you as well.

Our complete list on leadership, assessment, and digital transformation with links to each entry will be available soon as a PDF file. Are you interested in this exiting topic and want to receive the list on its publication date? Then like my post here, connect with me on LinkedIn and / or contact me.

You find more information about Stefan Klemens’ services as part of Schorberg Analytics focus on Digital Assessment here, on this website and this page.

Excerpt with 15 entries from our list on leadership, assessment, and digital transformation

Abbu, Mugge, Gudergan, & Hoeborn (2023). Assessing Digital Leadership: Towards Developing a Scale to Measure the Human Dimensions of Digital Leaders. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (S. 1-8). IEEE.

Frehner (2023). Kompetenzen und Fähigkeiten von Leader-Persönlichkeiten. In Führung heute: Erfolgsfaktoren des New Leadership (S. 57-189). Berlin: Springer.

Güldenberg, Langhof & Moser (2023). Open Questions and Tensions in Digital Leadership Research: Why it is time to rethink leadership again. Die Unternehmung, 77 (3), 232-247.

Hasenbein (2020). Digitale Führung. Der Mensch im Fokus der digitalen Arbeitswelt: Wirtschaftspsychologische Perspektiven und Anwendungsfelder (S. 97-126). Berlin: Springer.

Kanning (2018). Diagnostik für Führungspositionen. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kanning (2019). Managementfehler und Managerscheitern. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

König, Drescher & Hemel (2022). Digitale Kompetenz im Beruf. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Kraus & Kreitenweis, T. (2020). Führung messen. Inklusive Toolbox mit Messinstrumenten und Fragebögen. Berlin: Springer.

Pandey, Majumdarr, Hassan & Benuyenah (2023). Role of Digital Leadership Capability in Shaping IT Innovation: A Digital Agility Perspective. Journal of Global Information Management, 31(8), 1-20.

Sarges (Hrsg.). (2013). Management-Diagnostik (4. Auflage). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Schütz, Köppe & Andresen, M. (2020). Was Führungskräfte über Psychologie wissen sollten. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Stulle (Hrsg.). (2020). Digitalisierung der Management-Diagnostik: Aktuelle Instrumente, Trends, Herausforderungen. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.

Wall & Knights (Hrsg.). (2013). Leadership Assessment for Talent Development. London: Kogan Page.

Weinert & Stulle (Hrsg.). (2015). Executive Assessment: Instrumente, Trends, Herausforderungen. Berlin: Springer Gabler.

Winkler, König & Heß (2022). Management und Führung hybrider Teams. ZBW-Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. [siehe auch das Fachbuch von Winkler bei Haufe von 2023]

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Event New Year

Happy New Work, Vitra, Visier & BASF

Dear visitor!

Eleven days have passed in 2024 and I wish you a very happy New Year! That is still okay, since wishes for happiness are regardless of time and place anyway, right?

But as you read correctly the first words are Happy New Work, and that is more accurate for someone whose business is to improve human resource management (HRM) by People Analytics, AI, and Digital Assessment.

So I hope the first 11 days were good for you, and you started your work with excitement and energy just like me after some relaxing days off with loved ones, good food (my first duck in the oven thanks to TV cook Steffen Henssler!), and walks in the woods and at the Rhine.

And this time off was needed since I had been busy the last few months with, for example, a client report on HR software for executive search, our own new market report on People Analytics & AI with 100+ tools (coming soon), the re-design of Schorberg Analytics’ website and our new flyer. Moreover I am now also operating from Workspace Factory Campus in Düsseldorf: A unique place for inspiration, co-working, and community.

But what’s up and maybe interesting for you?

Let’s start with Vitra – the well-known design furniture company. Due to their Innovation People Lab at Zukunft Personal Europe 2023, I was invited for two special days at their headquarters in Weil am Rhein on the first two days in February: I am thrilled to join this Learning Journey “New Work” on the Vitra Campus. Perhaps you will be there too?

Those interested in People Analytics are aware of Visier: A leading HR platform in this field that started its global success 2010 in Vancouver. Next Thursday, 18 January, there will be an online session on how BASF Performance Materials has transformed HR Analytics with Visier. I am looking foward to this case study! More: https://events.visier.com/BASF

As an independent People & Digital HR Analyst there is nothing in it for me promoting this event (or the Vitra event), and you should also check out other vendors as well like ChartHop, Crunchr, Erudit AI, functionHR, HRForecast, Ingentis, Knoetic, Lanteria HR, One Model, or Orgnostic – Or turn to our People Analytics & AI market 2024 report shortly ;-).

By the way: Have you received our free PDF Big Book List on People Analytics yet? Check it out too!

Have a nice end of the week and all the best for you!

Stefan Klemens

PS: Want to exchange ideas on Human Resources, people analytics, digital assessment, or artificial intelligence in HRM? Then network, write a message and/or make an appointment for an online meeting. Or the classic way: phone call: Contact.

And: You like my work and the content I regularly share? Then I’m happy about a Like or comment on LinkedIn. Thank you! 🙂 🙋‍♂️🌳

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Artificial Intelligence

How I wrote a book about Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources in 3 hours

Dear guest!

Artifical Intelligence and especially Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is driving human productivity to new heights! No news for those using ChatGPT or other tools like Midjourney or DeepL. And of course the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has entered Human Resources Management too.

Recruiters use it for describing roles and optimizing interviews, professional assessors and developers of psychometric tests find items for their instruments much quicker, and leaders and HR managers communicate better with their people by AI-assisted employee survey and feeback apps. But these are just a few applications of the new IT-Tools, and one can find nearly to any tasks regarding the employee life cycle a help by the software algorithms.

Since my training in Data Science with Python, Big Data, and Machine Learning in 2020 and my prior HR experience, I wanted to write a book about »Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management«. But this of course would have been required quite a lot of time and resources which were always competeting with more important challenges of my position as an entrepreneur and a self-employed person.

In fact I had started already on this book project, did research on articles, books, and tools, wrote a content and some texts. And some of my AI in HRM results I published yet in this Newsblog and on my LinkedIn profile.

Besides that I participated in various events, workshops, and online-seminars about this topic – just recently last Friday morning, October 20, 2023, I was part of an online-seminar held by collegues from ITB Consulting, a professional assessment company settled in Bonn (the place of my academic education in Work and Organizational Psychology).

Although AI in HRM in this event was just one out of four points on their agenda and with my pre-knowledge, I still learned something. And of course it is always interesting to see how collegues with the same background in Psychology, HRM, and Information Technology tackle a rising electronic star!

Furthermore the event and several other in the last couple of weeks reminded me that it makes a lot of sense to complete some basic work about AI in HRM. Or even better: Finish writing my book! And not in months nor weeks: But in hours and days!

Actually the first draft of my book about AI in HRM with more than 80 pages I created in really three hours! As you probably know no one could have done this – Not even a higly-trained expert in the field with very fast writings skills.

But I think you are not that surprised anymore since November 30, 2022, that this can be realized! And I am sure you have guessed by now who (or better: what) lent me a hand in my new authorship: Yes, ChatGPT did the job for me! Our personal assistant for all kinds of tasks, our words when the paper stays blank, and our expert in whatever you may wonder.

Exactly, ChatGPT-4, the paid version of OpenAI (highly recommendable), came up with the contents of the book, and the texts for its chapters. Naturally not on his own, but by the promps I gave to the growing GenAI tool (look and try the exiting plugins from the store inside the abo version, as well as the tools from the menu with DALL·E3 and the Advances Data Analysis expansion).

So, what was left up for me? Well, first I needed of course to check randomly the quality of the text and whether it made sense. That was the case and although I observed some repetions of phrases (most of them in the introduction and conclusion of a chapter), what I read was more than usable. Especially of course as the output of ChatGPT-4 was in English language (which I wanted); But I suppose even a mother tongue person would profit from it.

So, I created a table of content, formated the titles and subtitles, and copied and pasted the chapter texts in my office document – what took the most time until then [I have not figured out yet how to do this automatically, but a little work I wanted to do in this stage of the book production also! ;-)]

But even though a bunch of work has been done so far, there are still some steps to finalise he book: Like reading the more than 80 pages, checking for sense and logic and missing contents. And make it more readable by creating graphics and tables (but I bet GenAI can helps me here very much too, and I already designed some covers of the book with the help of DALL·E 3).

So now I have a small book titled »Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: From Potential to Praxis« with more than 80 pages containing 13 chapters, 39 sub-chapters, and an appendix.

These are the chapter titles of the book:

  1. Introduction
  2. Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
  3. Revolutionizing Recruitment with AI
  4. AI in Employee Development
  5. Enhancing Employee Engagement through AI
  6. AI in Workforce Planning and Analytics
  7. Compensation and Benefits Optimization
  8. Leveraging AI for Diversity and Inclusion
  9. The Role of AI in HR Compliance and Risk Management
  10. Challenges and Risks of AI in Human Resources
  11. The Future of AI in Human Resources
  12. Case Studies and Real-world Applications
  13. Conclusion
    Appendix: Resources and Tools for AI in HR

But as I already mentioned that was not it: Aftewards I used DALL·E 3 wich is intergrated in the ChatCPT-4 Plus abo (US$ 20 per month) for creating an appropriate book cover which resulted in the following four nice suggestions:

I liked most out of these four the one in the right top corner with the shaking hands and also the right bottow corner with the charts and people. Since GenAI and AI in general is made to support us humans (and machines) to get work faster and better done, I chose my first favourite picture for the title of this article.

And you know what? I wil not keep the book for myself to sell it, nor it was it just merely an experiment! I will hand it over electronically in PDF to everyone who is interested in the topic – And who has not the time, resources or knowledge yet (hurry! And it is easy!) to hire ChatGPT or some competing chatbot like BARD or Claude as a ghost writer.

I only will ask you for your name and E-mail in order to send you a copy and to stay in touch for more exiting stuff about HR Tech that is coming out of the Schorberg Analytics pipeline with focus on People Analytics, Online-Assessment, and of course AI in HRM.

The publication date of the book is planned until the end of next week, so if you want your copy on time, take the chance of showing your interest by sending me a short message (e.g.: e-book: AI in HRM) via the contact form or at my LinkedIn Profil along with your E-mail-adress!

That´s it for now.

Have a good day and all the best,

Stefan Klemens

PS: Want to exchange ideas on people analytics, digital assessment or artificial intelligence in HRM? Then network, write a message and/or make an appointment for an online meeting. Or the classic way: phone call.

And: You like my work and the content I regularly share? Then I’m happy about a Like or comment on LinkedIn. Thank you! 🙂 🙋‍♂️🌳

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Event

Why a pitch is a Berg-Pitch: How five Startups and Amiaz Habtu rocked the audience

Dear guest!

Yesterday evening, October 19, 2023, it was time for another Berg-Pitch – the 13th to be exact – and it was a blast! The wonderful Luisa Skrabic moderated this unique event, and the stage at codecentric AG in Solingen was filled with excitement, passion, innovation, drinks & food, and rap music!

Although it started raining on my arrival at the outstanding headquarters of the well-known IT company the warm welcome from the team of the organiser, Solingen.Business (the Wirtschaftsförderung of the city) and a cool drink before the start of the event in the nicely designed entrance hall put the guests in the right mood.

After introducing words by head mayor Tim Kurzbach, this time online, Frank Balkenhol (CEO of Solingen.Business) and a few information about the event by Luisa the stage was opened for the following five startups and their 6-minute pitches (and 6-minute Q&A-Sessions):

  • saasmetrix,
  • victorioso nutrition,
  • Repair Rebels,
  • MANSIO, and
  • Innovative Robot Delivery.

And they all did a great job: The speakers, founders, and/or CEOs, showed their passion and commitment for their various products and services in well structured presentations.

The first speaker Marcel Banmann from saasmetrix GmbH offered a tricky and complete integration for several cloud-based Tools used by employees (like Slack), while Pablo Klüppelberg and Ben Decker from victorioso nutrition UG presented a fast performance-revovery and keeping method (so called “pouches” that you put in your mouth) for top athletes in team sports such as football and basketball – with future offerings for amateur athletes and high performance jobs as well. The third presentation did Dr. Monika Hauck from Repair Rebels GmbH, which has built an online platform to connect customers with fashion and clothing repair needs (the startup’s primary focuses at this time) with local craftspeople like tailors.

After a break for drinks and talks between guests, we saw a revolutionary system from MANSIO GmbH for saving resources in the transport of goods by trucks presetented by Maik Schürmeyer – And an equally smart solution by Innovative Robot Delivery GmbH for the sending of parcels and saving on packaging brought to us by Boris Meyer.

The event was a highly professional in every way, from the organisation to the speakers to the closing with delicious wraps and a very wide range of drinks.

And that was not just it! Even though the audience was already cheered up, Amiaz Habtu topped it with his new rap songs and the start of his singing career. The moderator of the German TV start-up Show “Die Höhle der Löwen” (The Cave of the Lions) unleashed the emotions of the audience with his singing and acting, getting right into heart of the crowd.

In his keynote and interview with Luisa, Amiaz told us about his roots and the beginning of his TV career, as well as the challenges and obstacles along the way. He also involved the audience by asking and answering some questions about his new role as a musician (which surprisingly included me too, as he wanted to know if I had understood his rap lyrics; see the the link to the video of the live stream for the whole event below).

Finally it was then time to announce the winners of the Berg-Pitch Competition, as voted for by a panel of judges and participants online or via the app. It was a difficult decision, as all the candidates made a lasting impression with their fine products and services. But since only one could win, the choice was made and Repair Rebels took the 4,000 Euro prize home.

Besides all of that I also enjoyed my talks with the interesting people I met and talked to at my seat, during the break and the get-together afterwards very much. Thank you!

A big applaus to those who made this great event possible: Phil Derichs and his team from Solingen.Business, codecentric AG for their hospitality, the judges for their work, and the support of several local sponsers – interestingly with fourtexx GmbH one from the HR Tech industry. We thank all of them deeply!

And as with the Olympics, so with this special 13th edition of the Berg-Pitch: It was important to be there. We look forward to the next Berg-Pitch, but the bar is now set pretty high.

Have a good day and all the best,

Stefan Klemens

PS: Want to exchange ideas on people analytics, digital assessment or artificial intelligence in HRM? Then network, write a message and/or make an appointment for an online meeting. Or the classic way: phone call.

And: You like my work and the content I regularly share? Then I’m happy about a Like or comment on LinkedIn. Thank you! 🙂 🙋‍♂️🌳

PS 1: Special thanks (just to name a few) to Phil Derichs & Jade Steffens and the Berg-Pitch team, Luisa Skrabic, Lars Rückemann, Frank Balkenhol, Amiaz Habtu, the eight judges: Georgis Tesamariam, Petra Mück, David Viehweger, Christian Kern, Stefanie Pies, Sebastian Oremek, Kim Armbrüster, Samy Dahmas), the startup-speakers: Marcel Banmann, Pablo Klüppelberg & Ben Decker, Dr. Monika Hauck, Maik Schürmeyer, and Boris Mayer.

PS 2: Here the link to the stream (credits to Lars Rückemann for posting it on LinkedIn): https://lnkd.in/e4T857_N

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Technology

Why Europe Needs an “Artificial Intelligence Airbus company”

Dear guest!

Yesterday I was part of the opening of the Gen AI-Lab by Ecodynamics in Düsseldorf – An event hosted by CEO Hamidreza Hosseini that implemented several new insights into my brain, namely: my neural network. Which of course was, as the foundations of Deep Learning distribute to a growing number of people, the blueprint for GenAI. Artificial neural networks are the core of Generative AI and Large Language Models a central part of it; Hamidreza talked a little about it at the Startplatz in the Media Harbor of the state capital (Thanks also to Lorenz Gräf for his introduction).

We also learned about Large Language Models (LLMs), and got a deeper look at the powerful performance of ChatGPT-4 (available in the Plus plan for $20 per month by OpenAI). And it is no longer a chatbot anymore, although the most powerful today as the CEO of Ecodynamics pointed out, but expanding with its 1000+ plugins and including models into e.g. a multilingual personal assistant, a painter with DALL·E 3, and a data scientist (see “Speak” in the plugin store and “Advanced data analysis” in the ChatGPT-4 menu).

Once again this event, the experience of Hamidreza Hosseini and Stefania Kalinska (COO Ecodynamics), as well as of what some of the participants said about the restrictions and fears of using ChatGPT in their companies, made it clear, that Europe and Germany are lagging behind in this technology that is changing the present and shaping the near future. And of course not only in the development of own tools and Large Language Models for a corporate and scalable application of GenAI (although there are some promising approaches like Luminous by Aleph Alpha in Germany or Mistral AI from France [1] (see hugginface.co for more on AI and LLMs) – But also in the application of the leading GenAI ChatGPT.

One reason, we learned and imagined, is the fear of many managers to implement it mainly grounded in the strict German and European data protection regulations and laws. But this should not be the case, said Mr. Hosseini, because running ChatGPT on servers in Europe and people from Microsoft Azure, for example, make sure that the chatbot complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Just like today with corporate data in the clouds of the Windows inventor, Google, or Amazon’s AWS. So the enterprise dependency is already there – and so is the GDPR match.

But as I am a friend of Open Source, freedom, independence and competition, we should not have only one pair of shoes for the walk into the future! Or as Hamidreza said: A hybrid or different LLM solution for applying GenAI could be better in special company cases. Although from the Silicon Valley as well, Anthropic’s model Claude is a promising candidate to challenge OpenAI, since some of its leading people came from the ChatGPT company. And certainly Anthropic’s funding in the last months with more than 5.5 billion US dollars ($4 billion from Amazon) and its partnership with AWS help to cut a big piece from the GenAI cake in the near future. [2]

This brings me to the question, what Europe and Germany can do in getting on strongly and fast with GenAI – and not lose out on another disruptive technology. As the “chip war” has started already, another insight from my trip to Düsseldorf yesterday, it came to my mind, that Germany, France, and other countries in Europe are obviously not big enough to compete alone with the overwhelming US tech companies, and also with the Asian giants. And even if such an initiative from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and Aleph Alpha in Germany in building the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence is of course a step in the right direction, this may be too small to compete with the tech giants. [3]

So the call of the hour might be to bring together forces from Europe like the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, Mistral AI from France, and other European AI actors and companies. And we have a very good role model for this, going back to 1970: In those days the foundations were laid for an aerospace company that very successfully challenged the dominant Boeing Company. We are talking about Airbus, of course, and the European company is number one or number two in this industry, depending on the criteria. [4, 5]

Therefore: why not join European forces to create a true champion from the continent that has influenced the world more than any other place throughout history? Our common heritage, our diversity, but also our ability to work together without borders and by valuing our not so different cultures (as seen from a global perspective) are a solid basis for such a goal. And money is there too. Hence it is time for an “Artificial Intelligence Airbus company”!

And I hope and am optimistic that this will happen. Why? Because there are a number of people who are working towards spreading the Gen AI spirit. Hamidreza and his team are one of them! What about you?

Many greeting and all the best,

Stefan Klemens

PS: Want to exchange ideas on people analytics, digital assessment or artificial intelligence in HRM? Then network, write a message and/or make an appointment for an online meeting. Or the classic way: phone call.

And: You like my work and the content I regularly share? Then I’m happy about a Like or comment on LinkedIn. Thank you! 🙂 🙋‍♂️🌳

Sources:

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/mistral-ai-makes-its-first-large-language-model-free-for-everyone
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic#Claude
[3] https://www.dieter-schwarz-stiftung.de/aktuelles/aleph-alpha-und-ipai-verkuenden-umfangreiche-partnerschaft.html
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus
[5] https://de.statista.com/themen/5179/airbus-vs-boeing/#topicOverview

Credits:

A first draft of this article was improved by Deepl’s function “Write”, an AI company from Cologne, Germany.
https://www.deepl.com/write

The heading picture was created with Stable Diffusion, the painting GenAI developed by researchers from the L. M. University of Munich.