From HRIS Sprawl To A Clear Tech Roadmap with Matthew Hamilton

About this episode

Matthew Hamilton discusses how to regain control over HR tech stacks and build effective HR tech strategies.

Your HR tech stack can feel like a living creature: new tools arrive, contracts renew, integrations sprawl, and suddenly you are paying multiple vendors for the same capability. We wanted a grounded conversation on how to regain control, so Bill Banham brought back Matthew Hamilton, VP of People Analytics and HRIS at Protective Life, to talk about building a guiding HR tech strategy that actually drives decisions when the pressure is on. We dig into why consolidation is not automatically the...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Banham

Guest: Matthew Hamilton

Topics covered

• HR tech strategy
• HRIS sprawl
• vendor management
• people analytics
• tech consolidation

Keywords

• HR tech
• HRIS
• vendor management
• people analytics
• tech strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Protective Life

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