These six primary concerns influencing corporate talent and HR will lead to changes in HR, Learning & Development, and Talent Management departments in terms of practices, structures, roles, management, tools, procedures, data, and systems. These include: rapid business change, a shift toward developing markets, a borderless workplace, specialisation generating new career and job models, new leadership styles, and strong talent competition.
These trends will influence HR, Learning & Development, and Talent Management methods, structures, roles, management, tools, operations, data, and systems, impacting almost all of HR's relationship with the business. Recent HR transformations have tended to emphasis cost-cutting over the development of more flexible, business-driven HR operations.