Meratus Group

Yusman Adi

As the head of HR business, Yusman Adi oversees HR leadership, talents, culture, and strategic business plans. He has served various roles from Supervisory up to Director Level in his 15 years of HR career. He is also known as a trusted advisor of the leadership team on HR matters to ensure a high-performing organization. In his previous roles, he led the end-to-end Human Resources Division to ensure key issues solving, executing organization development by right intervention, talent attraction and retention, improving training and development process, performance management system, and talent management. Additionally, he also used to advise top management for business solutions related to people and organization.

What are some of the major challenges and trends that have been impacting the HR industry lately?

In the past few years, factors such as Covid and the geopolitical climate have affected not only HR but every industry. Situations like this cause the economy’s state of deteriorating. Hr industry is still facing challenges in navigating and preparing the anticipation action. That explains why the fledgling company lately had a lot of staff terminations. To ensure that they run effectively, the majority of businesses basically assess their readiness or status. We need to examine our capabilities and knowledge while simultaneously fostering an innovative mind and culture among our staff.

"We need to examine our  capabilities and knowledge while  simultaneously fostering an  innovative mind and culture among  our staff"

Does your company incorporate any sort of technological solution to mitigate the challenges that you mentioned above or any strategy to address them?

Yes, since if we’re talking about efficiency, we’ll need to reengineer our business process and undoubtedly introduce new technologies to automate a manual process. As a result, technology has contributed a lot to enhancing our ability to operate businesses more effectively. The majority of multinational corporations already use the human resource information system. Additionally, we are implanting a new enterprise resource information system as a trial for the operation.

What are some of the technological and process elements that you leveraged to make any of your projects successful?

At my previous company, they implemented My HR area as a new piece of technology. It is a complete information system for human resources. They started this transformation from the Minneapolis headquarters and implemented it throughout the entire organization to increase operational efficiency. After the technology was introduced, we regrettably had to lay off a number of workers due to the process being more automated and effective.

What would be the single piece of advice that you could impart to a fellow or aspiring professional or maybe the senior leaders and CSOs working in the HR space?

As a HR business partners, we should understand the basic aspects of the business. For example, how it operates, about the market competition, and creates business strategy. Knowing about this kind of issue will help us to expand our capability by having the right people and culture in place. Therefore, it’s important to focus on three areas: business, talent, and culture.