For many years, performance management was handled in the same way by organisations across the globe – the annual performance appraisal. This process saw employees sit down with their line manager once a year to discuss feedback, set targets, and ultimately receive a rating based on their performance.
Ascendis Pharma is a progressive Danish biopharmaceutical company which has experienced major growth over the past couple of years. The company has boomed after being listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in 2015. They are now bringing their 160 employee strong company from start-up to grown-up, expecting to grow the company significantly over the next couple of years.
The Danish government-backed fund shows by example how to optimise their core HR processes and simultaniously prepare for GDPR compliance with a long-term investment in the CatalystOne HCM software platform.
Having recently surpassed the first revenue milestone on a 5-year growth plan, increased the number of employees by 100% in 2017 – and at the same time managed to be ranked as Norway’s 6th best place to work on their first attempt – Nordic HCM leader CatalystOne Solutions has had a tremendously good year.
In the race for great talents companies are willing to spend vast amounts of money to attract and hire new employees, and now at the beginning of the year onboarding is in full swing. Or is it?
HR has spent a little bit longer than let’s say finance or CRM getting up to speed with technology to propel their field of expertise into the era of digitalisation. But over the past couple of years we have seen HR taking giant strides to catch up. What kind of technology will Nordic HR executives pay most attention to in 2018?
We have officially entered the high season for job change. You might have noticed it too – at least I’m constantly getting notifications on LinkedIn, encouraging me to congratulate x or y on their new job.
The engineering consulting company will implement a cloud-based HR system to optimise processes for the entire employee lifecycle.
Following rapid growth and professionalisation of HR, the time was right to implement digital tools to support and simplify people processes
I don’t know if it’s me or the industry in general, but every year seems to go by quicker than the last one – and 2017 was no exception. Let’s take a moment to catch our breaths and reflect on what we have experienced and what developments we have seen in the HR industry throughout 2017.
