Building a Compelling Business Case for HR Technology Transformation
Agenda
15 May 2025
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Happy Hour
No cost to attend!
Meeting Location:
Twin Cities 400 Tavern
Industrial Boulevard Northeast 1330
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Happy Hour sponsored by Workday
May LEHRN Event
Join LEHRN for the next event - May 15, 2025 at 400 Tavern. Workday will be sponsoring and presenting "Building a Compelling Business Case for HR Technology Transformation". We will have a Happy Hour after our meeting at the same location.
Navigating the complexities of digital transformation can be challenging. How can you ensure technology truly aligns with your business goals? And how do you effectively communicate the need for change to key stakeholders? Join us for an insightful session designed to demystify the process of building a compelling business case for technology transformation. This session goes beyond vendor hype, providing you with practical frameworks and actionable strategies. We'll guide you through:
1) Defining your challenges: Clearly articulate the problems and opportunities within your organization.
2) Demonstrating business impact: Connect the dots between technology solutions and tangible business outcomes.
3) Building consensus: Identify and engage stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for your initiatives.
4) Leave this session equipped with the knowledge and tools you need to confidently champion technology-driven change within your organization.
Our Speakers
Ran Ji
Workday
Value Consultant
Ran Ji is a value consultant at Workday, where she partners with organizations to build compelling business cases for change for their technology projects. Her experience in strategy consulting prepared her to engage with executives and approach new problems with a strategic and structured approach. Ran is passionate about math education and previously taught college calculus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her 8am calc students were some of the toughest audiences she’s ever had! Although she now lives in San Francisco, Ran grew up in Michigan and misses the fall leaves and snow days. In her free time, she enjoys reading, spending time outdoors, and visiting art museums.
Scott Berg
Needham & Company
Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst
Scott will be presenting an overview of a recent white paper he led internally for Needham: GenAI Outlook, Impact, Stock Picks, and Private Companies.
This paper provides Needham analysts' updated thoughts about how GenAI will impact their companies and industries over the next 12-24 months.
GenAI is reshaping the entire tech stack, from silicon to software applications. As AI evolves, it will drive significant economic growth and transform industries globally. GenAI adoption and monetization suggest a material reallocation of revenue and FCF across the global economy. This report identifies winners and losers.
Robert Richardson
SAP
HR Tech Strategy Advisor
HR’s Glass Wall: Avoiding the Skills-based Collision Ahead
AI is changing the way we do everything. So it’s no surprise that “We’re working to become a skills-based organization” is echoing through the halls of HR. And why not? AI-powered skills matching worked like magic in Recruiting. Surely the same playbook will revolutionize Talent Management too.
Let’s go! Fire, ready, aim!
Organizations are racing toward skills transformation like bullet trains. But in conversation after conversation with HR teams adopting AI, Robert Richardson confirmed a troubling trend: most are speeding straight toward a bullet-train-proof glass wall.
Most don’t see it—until they hit it.
Join Robert as he reveals the hidden barriers companies never saw coming—and what it really takes to break through and build the skills-based organization everyone’s talking about.
Robert serves as HR Tech Strategy Advisor at SAP SuccessFactors. There his domains include AI, Recruiting, Talent Management, and Sustainability. As Work Matters Podcast co-host Robert and Dr. Steve Hunt shared 26 episodes of actionable career advice for everyday workers. Inside SAP, he produced over 100 video podcast episodes training SAP employees. His work in open online courses has been viewed by tens of thousands of HR professionals worldwide. Robert also serves as SAP’s Social Sustainability Lead for ASUG, helping clients achieve sustainable profit.