PwC released a 10min brief on ‘what companies can do to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their HR organizations for better workforce ROI’. I’d review, but Acrobat didn’t like it. I tried, for 10mins. Then had an idea: if you only had 10 mins to change your HR department, what would you do?

HubCap forums discuss what’s next for people in the workplace: how they can be better managed, measured, reported and valued.

They bridge disparate voices such as getting HR talking to Finance, take the latest ideas in the lecture room and bring them into the boardroom, draw attention to and assess global points of view.

Hopefully they inspire new areas of research, new books, new approaches, new policies.

With luck, they will help the next generation change the way we think, value, manage - and talk - about people.

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In March 2010, we opened up our forum. For discussing what’s next for people in the workplace - how they can be better measured, managed and reported - our forum perfectly complements the aims and ambitions of our digital library, providing HR, finance, psychology, the media and others with a sounding board for new ideas.

On HubCap, you can do three core things:

Publish: HubCap’s library includes articles from International bodies: European Accounting Association, Personnel Today; Journals: Journal of Finance & Accountancy, Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Academics: Robin Roslender, Suresh Cuganesan, Ulf Johanson; Business leaders: Alison Gill, Tim Hoad, Vineet Nayar. Not to mention the Human Capital Handbook 2011

Publish your ideas.

Discuss: The strength of the HubCap forum and groups lies in the collective perspectives derived from so many different disciplines: financial services, psychology, academia, politics, journalism, HR, corporate governance, management and consulting. And from all corners of the world.

Discuss what matters to you.

Connect: HubCap’s regular expert webinars help professionals, working to make businesses more effective, understand what’s next for people in the workplace: how they can be better measured, managed, and reported.

Ask the experts.

The goal though is not just to aggregate the latest thinking. It’s not just to use the document viewer – one of only a handful of companies to develop this technology – think Google, NYT, Scribd – to lens and socialise the ideas within. It’s to use the library’s wrap-around networking functionality to connect authors to readers, accelerate the ideas exchange between academia and business, East to West, from concept to practical reality.

Especially now, we need edgeless thinking and actionable intelligence.

If you want to know what people are saying about people, it’s here, and free.