Xel­len­to on the HR Sum­mit 2024: How the reci­procity between human and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence flour­ish­es

How can AI ful­fill the func­tion of a co-work­er in HR? How can AI be used as more than a tool, name­ly be estab­lished as part of a true part­ner­ship between man and machine?  Dur­ing XELLENTO’s pan­el on the 15th Ger­man Human Resources Sum­mit Sascha Ger­land, the firm’s mana­ging part­ner and Dr. Yas­min Weiß, pro­fes­sor at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty Nurem­berg, illus­trat­ed what the world of work will look like in 2030, and the role of HR in proac­tive­ly accom­pa­ny­ing cor­po­rate AI trans­for­ma­tion. 

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Trends per­tain­ing to super­vi­so­ry and advi­so­ry board place­ments

Com­pa­nies, man­age­ment as well as their super­vi­so­ry and advi­so­ry boards have always had to face up to new chal­lenges. The con­comi­tant preva­lence of extreme­ly demand­ing top­ics, how­ev­er, rep­re­sents an espe­cial­ly pro­nounced accu­mu­la­tion: geopo­lit­i­cal crises and their impact on mar­kets and sup­ply chains, rapid devel­op­ments regard­ing the appli­ca­tion of AI, an explod­ing short­age of skilled work­ers and the upheaval root­ed in the tran­si­tion of ener­gy sources. On the 31st Munich Man­age­ment Col­lo­qui­um on March 5th and 6th, 2024, XELLENTO’s part­ner Kai Horten elu­ci­dat­ed to which extent these ‘poly-crises’ sig­ni­fy changes in the coop­er­a­tion between oper­a­tional man­age­ment and the supervisory/advisory board.

Beyond imag­i­na­tion: How AI is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing human resources

The expec­ta­tions of the capa­bil­i­ties of AI are enor­mous – we are not yet able to fath­om the entire­ty of pos­si­bil­i­ties. In the upcom­ing years, AI will not only rev­o­lu­tion­ize HR but also entire com­pa­nies and indus­try sec­tors.
In the com­pa­ny spon­sored forum at the 14th Human Resources sum­mit on Novem­ber 17th, 2023, Xellento’s Mana­ging Part­ner Till Schöppe-Fries in coop­er­a­tion with Cove­stro Germany’s Dr. Roscoe Arau­jo, Senior Project Man­ag­er Trans­for­ma­tion, and Dr. Wal­ter Grün­er, Head of IT of Dig­i­tal­iza­tion, pre­sent­ed how the chem­i­cal com­pa­ny very active­ly pur­sues AI. Even today, AI already is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for alle­vi­at­ing the short­age of skilled spe­cial­ists while con­comi­tant­ly also rekin­dling the same.

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Peo­ple Ana­lyt­ics as a game-chang­er? How HR is suc­cess­ful­ly trans­form­ing itself – and using smart data man­age­ment to answer the ques­tions of tomor­row

The lev­el of expec­ta­tion regard­ing data-dri­ven HR man­age­ment is extreme­ly high. But the suc­cess of this kind of trans­for­ma­tion can­not be tak­en for grant­ed. Can HR use data to answer the ques­tions of tomor­row? Peter Alexan­der Rapp, Mana­ging Part­ner at Xel­len­to, and Chris Kaibel, Orga­ni­za­tion­al Sci­en­tist EMEA, Roche, came togeth­er on Xellento’s top­i­cal dis­cus­sion pan­el at the 13th Ger­man Human Resources Sum­mit on Octo­ber 28th, 2022 to address ways in which the use of Peo­ple Ana­lyt­ics is guar­an­teed to result in fail­ure and what it takes to suc­cess­ful­ly trans­form HR work.

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Attract­ing new employ­ees beyond met­ro­pol­i­tan areas

How do employ­ers, espe­cial­ly SMEs, attract high achiev­ers to the rur­al loca­tions? Today, employ­ees set out the work­ing con­di­tions, thus com­pa­nies are the ones vying for the can­di­dates. Apart from com­pen­sa­tion and com­pa­ny car there is a fur­ther fac­tor of impor­tance: the loca­tion. The SME which is “locat­ed at the end of the world” is faced with a fierce fight for tal­ent.
The above was pre­sent­ed and dis­cussed by the Xel­len­to part­ners Dr. Matthias Kestler
on the 10th of July 2019 at the Pio­neers Club in Biele­feld
and Peter Alexan­der Rapp
on the 10th of Octo­ber 2019 at the FAZ Con­fer­ence “Recruit­ing & Führungskräfte­bindung im Mit­tel­stand“ by KLAFS GmbH & Co. KG in Schwäbisch Hall

Dr Klaus Weigel, Of Coun­sel Board Xperts GmbH, at the 30th Munich Man­age­ment Col­lo­qui­um

The chal­lenges are broad: from ener­gy costs and sup­ply bot­tle­necks to ESG and skills short­ages. What they mean for the com­po­si­tion and work of super­vi­so­ry boards was explained by Dr Klaus Weigel, of coun­sel of our com­pa­ny Board Xperts GmbH, in a lec­ture at the 30th Munich Man­age­ment Col­lo­qui­um on March 8th 2023.

Nom­i­na­tion of super­vi­so­ry boards: What are the mis­takes that must be avoid­ed?

Dur­ing the 14-day livestream pod­cast by the Direc­tors Acad­e­my, Dr Klaus Weigel spoke with Rudolf Ruter on 7 April 2022. The top­ic of the con­ver­sa­tion: the “cor­rect” make-up of super­vi­so­ry bod­ies in both cap­i­tal mar­ket and un-list­ed fam­i­ly-owned com­pa­nies and the mis­takes to be avoid­ed.
You can lis­ten to the full con­ver­sa­tion again here:

Dr. Klaus Weigel, Mana­ging Part­ner of our part­ner com­pa­ny Board Xperts GmbH, at the 29th Münch­n­er Man­age­ment Kol­lo­qui­um

Busi­ness lead­ers in all indus­tries are fac­ing the huge task of trans­for­ma­tion. Invest­ment needs to be made in new tech­nolo­gies and busi­ness mod­els which, right now, are not yet cer­tain to suc­ceed.
Dr. Klaus Weigel, Mana­ging Part­ner of our part­ner com­pa­ny Board Xperts GmbH, explains what all this means for the com­po­si­tion of super­vi­so­ry boards in a talk at the 29th Münch­n­er Man­age­ment Kol­lo­qui­um on March 9th 2022.