As HR leaders adopt new ways of delivering technology, they find that ripping out and replacing their HR systems is often not the best option. If you need to enable people to work together, replacing your existing platform with one that has a collaboration tool doesn’t make sense when you can implement a companywide platform at a tiny per-user cost.
Once you start down that path, be prepared for your people to want more. Once they start using apps at work the way they do at home or on the go, they will want more apps. People always seek the path of least resistance, and well-designed apps offer a simple, intuitive way to get things done. As consumers, we already prefer apps over web-based and desktop programs.
The “Appification” of HR