People and Management October 2018 | Page 80

[EVENT SPEAKERS DIARY] ARE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENTS OBSOLETE? T Dr. (Col) John Chenetra President, SecUR Credentials echnology has always played an important role in business operations, which includes improving effi ciency, increasing accountability, reducing errors, and enhancing communication. It is imperative to give businesses an edge over their competition in a continuously globalizing world. But of late, the size and scale of improvements have changed the role of technology in business from a means to an end, to a powerful, infl uential force in its own right. The world of technology is continuously evolving, often outpacing the capacity of human beings and industries to predict where it’s going, let alone allowing them the time to catch up. Just thirty years ago, computers were a 80 | Vol. 9 Issue 6 • Sep-Oct 2018, Noida / Pre-Event Edition