Innovation, innovation, innovation – that’s the buzzword we hear so often these days and it is not for a lack of good reason.
For an organisation to stay competitive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous (VUCA) business environment, innovation has become a key ingredient for survival.
Here at ATC Events, we are always on the lookout for the latest, most innovative recruitment technologies that help organisations improve their talent management processes and we would showcase them at the Innovation Lab during the Australasian Talent Conference.
Just to give you a further taste of what you can expect at this year’s Innovation Lab, we invited some participants to share a little more about what they are going to present.
Click here to see Part 1 of this series.
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Full Name: Max King
Position Title: CEO & Founder
Company Name: Digital Academy
Fun Fact: My best man at my wedding is a woman!
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 What’s your solution and why is it an innovation?
We are a digital knowledge centre for improved employer branding and social recruitment. We will help you engage, attract and hire candidates. The talent revolution is here and we’re fanning the flames of change.
 Why is it astonishing?
DA’s expert digital community streamline social media recruitment strategies.
 Creating a new product or solution can be a bumpy road, if you could go back and do it all again, what would you change?
Try not to solve every problem at once – stick to your core solution and the rest will come!
 Outside of the talent solution space, what’s your favourite gadget or innovative product
Drones…I’m fascinated by the huge capabilities in the technology 🙂
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Full Name: Michael Sacco
Position Title: A/NZ Talent & Engagement Practice Lead
Company Name: IBM Australia
Fun Fact: Couldn’t use a computer when I started as an IT Recruitment Consultant 20+ years ago!
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What’s your solution and why is it an innovation?
IBM’s Cognitive Recruiting Tools harness the best of IBM. We have incorporated Watson technology, machine-learning and analytics-driven decision-making into recruitment tools that yield productivity improvements, better outcomes, and allowing us to out think the market. Cognitive Recruiter – determines time and effort required allowing for task prioritisation; Cognitive Sourcing – predicts the likelihood of applicant success, and; Cognitive Marketing – real time insight into market factors that affect your brand
Why is it astonishing?
With the advent of cognitive computing, we can interactively explore and visualise the true structure of an organisation.
Creating a new product or solution can be a bumpy road, if you could go back and do it all again, what would you change?
No need to go back and do it all again. We are developing these tools in an ongoing iterative process. With feedback, we will continually improve them and release upgrades and added functionality as we do.
Outside of the talent solution space, what’s your favourite gadget or innovative product?
Smartphones / mobile access – the impact over the 10 years or so they’ve been widely used is incredible. Surface of possibility has only just been scratched. However, has increased global social but reduced in-person social.
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Full Name: Andrew Pitts
Position Title: Founder and CEO
Company Name: Polinode
Fun Fact: Former investment banker turned developer and founder.
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What’s your solution and why is it an innovation?
Polinode allows you to collect and analyse data on communications and relationships between people. It’s innovative as it allows you to really understand how work gets done and how an organisation truly functions.
Why is it astonishing?
Picture an interactive network that allows you to understand who works with whom, what different communities exist and who bridges those communities. Now imagine all the use cases, for example identifying emerging talent, overlaying attrition probabilities, mergers and acquisition integration, change management and so on.
Creating a new product or solution can be a bumpy road, if you could go back and do it all again, what would you change?
Listen to customers even more. Customer feedback is like gold dust – it can save you countless hours and allows you to focus on features with the greatest impact.
Outside of the talent solution space, what’s your favourite gadget or innovative product?
I love my Fitbit Surge! Particularly the data visualisation and export, which includes everything from heart rate through to GPS co-ordinates.
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