EY-IBM alliance aims to address post-Covid challenges
EY and IBM have announced an alliance expansion to help businesses around the world address pressing workforce challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new initiative addresses challenges, including employee recruiting, retention, upskilling and the need to transform HR systems technology at speed and scale.
With the aim to help organisations navigate this new talent landscape through digital innovation and greater resilience, EY and IBM have established a new Talent Centre of Excellence (COE).
The COE will create data-driven AI and hybrid cloud solutions that provide broad talent, HR, mobility and payroll transformation services. Bringing together the EY Organization & Workforce, Mobility and HR Transformation business solutions with IBM Talent Transformation business and hybrid cloud and AI capabilities, it is the newest expansion of the EY-IBM Alliance and second COE established in the past year, an alliance statement said.
Andy Baldwin, EY global managing partner – client service, says: “Through this alliance expansion, EY and IBM are better equipped to help deliver value to clients by putting humans at the centre of the experience and helping them overcome the urgent need to attract, retain and upskill their workforce while transforming their HR function.”
John Granger, senior vice president – IBM Consulting, says: “The EY-IBM Alliance will provide consulting and technology solutions that infuse AI and automation into the talent process to help clients simplify and streamline the experience.”
Further illustrating the depth of the EY-IBM Alliance in this space, EY has invested in the organisation’s own Talent function. By leveraging IBM automation and intelligence technology, the statement said: “EY is transforming Talent from within to develop a leading class acquisition strategy, help in delivering a simplified user experience and enable ability to better match available skills and talent to jobs.”
This new COE follows the successful launch of the EY-IBM Centre of Excellence for Financial Services.
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