New work in the cloud, in the home office, on the road needs a new people management as a success factor. HR must reinvent itself: In the past, HR was an administrative task of salary payments and vacation entitlements.

Legacy systems are often seen as the biggest barrier to digital innovation, and so modernization is high on the agenda for companies.

Today, there is no way around the digitization of HR management: The benefits range from digital HR support and recruiting to payroll, talent management, and innovations such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The best software is only worth as much as the expertise of the people responsible for it. Sebastian Rüting has led Workday's HR solutions to success with a great deal of knowledge and prudence.

As a company with a very high degree of internationalization, the Freudenberg Group faced the challenge of restructuring its HR processes from ten different Business Groups in more than 60 countries.