adidas' Head of International Mobility and Reward Innovation: achieving organisational impact

David Enser is co-Founder of the RES Forum and Head of International Mobility and Rewards Innovation for adidas Group. He spoke to HR Grapevine about the issue of centralising mandates versus engaging a workforce.

“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. In many organisations this is a quick and simple task; the HRD says ‘it shall be so’ and the organisation follows. However, this is certainly not so for many organisations I have come across recently.

“At a recent RES Forum event this discussion permeated throughout a whole day of fairly disparate topics. 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 to gain impact?”

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