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Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – As an HR professional, you work with multiple people throughout the recruiting and on-boarding processes. From interview to training, there’s a lot of paperwork, procedures, and management involved in bringing a new hire up to speed. Enter automation and its ability to transform HR departments and simplify the voluminous work they…

Cindy Olson, Chief Human Capital Transformation Strategist of Choice Strategic Alliance Most HR leaders recognize the competitive advantage of human capital. So why are the talent practices they use stuck in the 20th century? HR Challenges in the Digital Age In Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First, the authors set out to help organizations elevate their HR strategy…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – The promised goal of technology is an endless streamlining of work until it becomes so easy that productivity is bursting from the office. The reality is that for every boost of speed it brings, there are issues that bottleneck the process and negate all of those gains. Many of these issues…

  Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – During my 15 years at a Big Five firm, it was ingrained in me that it was not my job to make decisions for my clients, but to equip them with the right information so they could make the best choices for themselves. In 1985, the predecessor company to ‘Choice Solutions’…

 Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – These days, I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I’m sorry, but we have a fire to put out.”  Typically, I am in conversation with a client (IT leader) when a small knock is heard at the door.  After given permission to enter, an anxious body briskly makes their…

Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – Working more hours and taking advantage of new tools and technologies (like the smartphone) isn’t making us more productive.  Since 2011 productivity has slowed down.  WorkMarket is calling it a productivity crisis and I agree. As a leader in providing technology solutions, I am most disappointed in our IT leaders.  Instead…

 Jim Steinlage, President & CEO of Choice Solutions – The digital transformation is going to eat non-transformational CIOs for dinner. That is about 80% of today’s CIOs (yes, really). Business objectives aren’t necessarily new (cost cutting, scale, new rev stream and retain talent) but how these objectives are achieved will be. And quite frankly, the traditional CIO needs to step…