adidas: Making an impact

One of the biggest challenges I deal with in my role is assessing and defining how we best achieve organisational impact as a central HR function. For some this is a quick and simple task; the HRD says ‘it shall be so’ and the organisation follows. However, this is not the case for many organisations I have come across recently. It’s all well and good discussing trends in HR policies, systems, usage or functional value propositions but, without a clear way to achieve real organisational impact, some discussions may be doomed to failure. So, how can you gain impact?