“As the leader in AI Predictive Sales and Marketing Cloud Solutions, SalesChoice Inc. is a substantial complement to our executive search and talent management service offering at The Bedford Group. We are thrilled to be partnering with SalesChoice Inc. to help our...
During Q4 2018, Leathwaite polled in excess of 1000 global Human Resources (HR) leaders. Respondents included Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs), Heads of Specialist Functions (including Talent, Reward, Learning and Recruiting) and those at the vanguard of HR...
The pressure to increase diversity in the workplace is rising across sectors. Earlier this year, Google made headlines when its shareholders and employees publicly called on the tech giant to fix its “diversity crisis,” asking the Board for reforms to racial and...
Artificial Intelligence has reached a tipping point. Hailed as “the next big thing” for the past few years, AI is poised to fundamentally change businesses and people’s lives—a shift described as the “fourth industrial revolution.” Fortunately, Canada is at the...
The global artificial intelligence market is expected to grow from USD $21.46 Billion in 2018 to USD $190.61 Billion by 2025. This new major market challenges our current methods and demands leaders and organizations that are prepared to work in an exponentially...
Bedford Consulting Group Partner, Darren Raycroft discusses how to manage change and find the outsider’s perspective. Change is and will continue to be the order of the day in todays business climate, and that can be intimidating for a first-time CEO. Any time...
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more pervasive, integrating into our lives as the power of the machine behind the chat bot revolution, smarthome sensor networks, and assistant voice-based applications like Alexa or Siri are further unifying...
The challenge to attract and retain top talent is consistently identified as the number one pain point of CEOs. The right talent in the right positions that live your corporate culture will have a profound impact on your business. Accomplishing this often starts with...
As any company looking for top talent knows, today’s candidates are in the driver’s seat. With the unemployment rate at a 40-year low in Canada and an ever-tightening labour market, employers need to stand out from competitors that have also hung the proverbial “help...
With the ongoing talent crunch, it’s a candidate’s world out there. The Canadian unemployment rate is at 5.6%—the lowest since 1976—so candidates can seemingly have their pick of new employment opportunities. While that’s good news for jobseekers, it makes it more...
The best business minds of our times have understood that people are critical to success. One well-known example is Jack Welch, chairman, and CEO at General Electric from 1981 to 2011, who stated that human resources are the most important function in the company. “HR...
There’s a shortage of top talent around the globe, and the hunt for candidates is keeping CEOs up at night. In PwC’s 2017 global CEO survey, 77% of CEOs said they see the availability of key skills as the biggest threat to their business. Considering today’s...