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HR and IT Convergence: Managing Hybrid Workforces

Merge people and platform thinking: align HR and IT to hire, onboard, and manage hybrid human‑digital teams.

Sep 29, 2025 0m 19s

Steve Brown

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Steve Brown underscores the need for convergence between IT and HR to effectively manage hybrid workforces, including both human and digital components. His mention of Moderna combining the roles of CIO and CHRO indicates a recognition of the increasing prominence of AI in workforces.

Hear Steve explain:

  • Why traditional managerial departments are unprepared to manage digital employees and tools.
  • The advantages of a unified approach toward managing humans and AI.
  • How Moderna's combined IT and HR strategy can be a new model for other firms implementing AI in their workforce.
Moderna. I think they were the first company to say we've now got a combined IT and CHR. So CIO and CHRO have combined because we realize we now preside over a part human and part digital workforce.
— Steve Brown, AI Futurist & fmr exec @ Google DeepMind & Intel

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Here's how software development teams can adapt to the modern age of AI-assisted workflows:

  • Rethink organization: Consider how your HR and IT roles could merge or evolve to better manage your human and AI resources.
  • Embrace the digital workforce: If your team is not already doing so, integrate AI components into everyday workflows to create a substantial digital aide within the workforce.
  • Team management: Train team leaders on how to manage both the human and digital aspects of their teams effectively.
  • Promote interdisciplinary collaboration: Encourage IT and human resource management teams to collaborate, blurring the lines between technological and human resources.
  • Prepare for adaptability: Be ready and flexible to make potentially radical organizational changes that AI technology might demand.