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2021 Survey on Industry Trends in HR Technology and Service Delivery

See into the HR-related decisions, service delivery environments and investment priorities of 260 companies around the world.

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What Is Transformational HR?

It’s HR that engages the workforce of tomorrow, drives operational efficiency and delivers value to the business in a new way.

Transforming HR means reorienting the role HR plays in the organization. Rethink your operating model and boost its capabilities by leveraging the right technology, the right delivery model and an effective sourcing ecosystem.

 

HR Transformation

Reimagine the Employee Experience

The workplace of the future requires the workforce of future. How do you attract and retain top talent?

You need a workforce strategy that not only aligns HR with business goals but also leverages HR as an enterprise leader. Optimize processes, roles, and shared services so you can help the business define success – and lead the charge.

HR Technology

Revolutionize HR with Technology

Is your HR technology holding you back? Manual processes and inflexible systems are frustrating and inefficient.

You need to balance technical architecture, data security and the use of emerging technologies like machine learning and chatbots with a deep understanding of HR functionality, processes and user expectations.

 

 

HR Outsourcing

Optimize Sourcing to Save

Wondering if there’s a better way to “get it all done?” HR has a broad set of outsourcing markets—from HR contact centers and payroll administration to recruitment and learning, there are outsourcing partners to support your team.

ISG’s HR Technology & Transformation experts are the market leaders in helping enterprises transform their HR organizations through strategic use of outsourcing. We bring the domain experience, sourcing know-how, best-in-class methodologies and world-class market data you need to assess, source, benchmark and manage your HR delivery partner relationships.

HR Insights On-Demand

HR Peers & Market Pulse Updates

ISG is well known for bringing HR insights informed by our interaction with hundreds of clients planning, designing, and executing on next-generation HR experiences. Engaging with peers directly is more difficult today, yet these are the insights that are most valuable to each of us. Hear our best and latest insights on what peers and providers are doing – short focused discussions reflecting trends observed and shared across a network of HR practitioners! Watch the topics of interest to you here.

2020 HR Peers Market Pulse Updates
ISG expertise is just a click away on the topics of most interest to you. HR-related blogs and publications of interest are showcased in the tiles below and updated regularly.

The market has moved from ambition to accountability.

AI investment is accelerating, but results remain uneven. Only one in four initiatives is meeting revenue impact expectations, at an average spend of $1.3M per use case. Enterprises are no longer asking whether AI works. They are being asked to prove that it pays.

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What We Deliver

ISG turns AI complexity into measurable execution advantage — from strategy and governance through to commercial models, workforce readiness and independent market intelligence.

Autonomous Enterprise
ISG helps organizations redesign operations for an autonomous future, defining where AI agents deliver the most value, restructuring workflows around them and building the accountability models that keep autonomous execution governed and auditable. As agentic AI moves from emerging capability to operational reality, the enterprises that win will be those that redesigned for it before it arrived.
Autonomy-Level Pricing
ISG's Autonomy-Level Pricing framework gives enterprises transparent, benchmarkable commercial structures that reflect how AI-enabled services are actually executed. By tagging each resource unit with the autonomy level used to deliver it, from human-validated to fully autonomous, ALP ensures that pricing evolves alongside capability and that both buyers and providers can quantify the value of advancing AI maturity.
AI & Software Intelligence
Drawing on the analysis of more than $2.6 billion in tracked AI spend through ISG Provider Lens and ISG Buyers Guide research, ISG gives procurement, technology and finance leaders the independent intelligence they need to make sharper build-versus-buy decisions, rationalize vendor portfolios and hold providers accountable to measurable outcomes.
AI Governance
ISG helps enterprises shift from compliance-as-constraint to governance-as-operating-model, embedding controls at the point of data creation, defining accountability for autonomous actions and building adaptive frameworks that keep pace with AI without slowing it down. Enterprises that get this right don't just manage risk. They build the trust that lets them scale faster.
AI Strategy
ISG grounds AI strategy in what is actually working, drawing on research across 1,200 enterprise use cases to align investment to where impact is most achievable. We help leadership teams design the data, talent and governance foundations that move AI from isolated pilots into the workflows that drive commercial results.
AI Maturity Index
The ISG AI Maturity Index delivers a scored, benchmarked assessment of AI readiness in 15 minutes, calibrated against peers across 75 countries and focused on the dimensions that determine whether AI investment translates into business results. Organizations receive dimensional analysis, gap identification and a personalized growth roadmap.
The market today

Enterprise AI has moved out of IT and into the revenue line.

AI investment is shifting decisively toward revenue-generating functions. CRM automation, sales enablement and forecasting have replaced chatbots and IT productivity tools as the leading use case priorities, reflecting enterprise recognition that productivity gains alone do not satisfy board-level scrutiny. At the same time, use cases in production have doubled since 2024, and the portfolio is diversifying rapidly, with over 300 distinct function and industry-specific use cases now in active deployment.

ISG research across 1,200 enterprise use cases shows that the strongest AI returns are currently concentrated in compliance, risk management and quality control, not in the growth and cost outcomes most enterprises originally set out to achieve

The gap between where enterprises are investing and where AI is actually delivering is the defining commercial tension of 2025. Organizations that close it by targeting functions with structured, revenue-attributable data and clear ROI measures will establish performance benchmarks that compress the window for competitors still cycling through pilots. The standard is being set now.

Where enterprises are feeling the pressure
  • Business outcomes are lagging AI ambition
    Enterprises are scaling Al faster than they are realizing value from it. The number of use cases in production doubled between 2024 and 2025, yet only one in four initiatives is meeting revenue impact expectations, and broad cost savings remain elusive. At an average spend of $1.3M per use case, the ROI gap is sharpening board-level scrutiny and forcing a harder question: are we building Al for impact, or for activity?
  • Data infrastructure is exposing years of deferred investment
    Al does fail in isolation. It fails on the foundations beneath it. Most enterprises are running modern Al on architectures built for reporting and compliance. Generative and agentic Al demand real-time contextually rich, governed data at the point of use. Without it, pilots stall and value dissipate before it reaches the business.
  • The barrier to scale is organizational, not technical
    Organizational readiness as the bigger constraint on Al adoption, not talent or tooling. Workflows haven't been redesigned. Decision rights haven't shifted. Enterprises that treat Al as a pure technology deployment, without investing in the human side of adoption, consistently report underwhelming ROI.
  • Agentic AI is outpacing governance
    As Al moves from generating outputs to executing tasks autonomously, the governance gap widens. Agentic Systems introduce a new class of risk that static compliance frameworks were never designed to catch. Governing what Al does, not just what it produces, is now a business-critical requirement.
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