As member of the Global HR Team, Jorn Waterschoot is working as Global Talent Project Manager and Business Process Owner for Talent at Bekaert, a world leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. Bekaert is a global company headquartered in Belgium with almost 30,000 employees, active in 120 countries and founded in 1880. The HR community at Bekaert continuously strives for improvement of their HR processes, tools and practices. Jorn Waterschoot manages and deploys global projects to streamline and optimize the use of HR technologies that support Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Learning & Development and Performance Management.

The World Goes Digital: How to revolutionize your HR services efficiency

Digitalization of HR application is now commonplace in large international companies. But how do you make sure that those new systems that increase the efficiency really generate added value? This is no simple feat. At Bekaert, the move to a cloud platform opened new horizons in how HR can actually help participate in the growth of the company.

The key message that will be brought to the audience is how Bekaert modernized and transformed the HR services, to actually create added value for all employees worldwide. The journey already included the Recruitment, Learning and Succession & Talent Management processes and will be continued by adding the Performance & Goal cycle next year.