HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources

CHAPTER 7HR INNOVATOR AND INTEGRATOR

Creating capable culture requires a combination of both HR practice innovation and the integration of practices as a synergistic whole. The case following offers a useful example:

AXA Equitable

In mid-2011, AXA Equitable faced the challenge of implementing a reduction in staf while maintaining employee productivity and introducing more innovative and more profitable insurance products to the market. Rino Piazolla, CHRO of AXA Equitable, recognized the need to recommit the organization, and with us implemented a “workout” initiative: engaging employees at all levels in identifying ways to take unnecessary work and cost out of the organization and enable employees to focus on the important activities–the ones ...