Over two years ago, AstraZeneca embarked upon a transformational journey. The journey involved the alignment of all of AstraZeneca's HR services and systems globally. The name of the HR transformation journey is 'AZengage', and the numbers were - and still are - truly impressive. 61,000 employees, dozens and dozens of HR systems to be unified, more than 100 countries involved, and a wide range of languages supported.

The alignment of talent management processes can be defined as horizontal integration. The development of organization and employees are the focus of horizontal integration. Below is an overview of the Talent Management processes, following every step of the employee lifecycle, along with ome examples for developing and executing the Talent Management processes.

1. Recruitment

If you are on Twitter, I am sure you recognize the illustration: the Twitter whale signals that the system is not working as it should. Unless you are in the middle of a tweet-up, Twitter being out of service is unlikely to be more than annoying. But what about other cloud applications we have come to rely on? Do you know how damaging it is to your business when they are not available?

Who do you look up to in business and why?
The people I respect most in business have developed a long career of achievement…a series of successes that taken as a body of work shows he/she can adapt to changing times and work through others. Personally, I also gravitate to those that show humility and respect to everyone they work with. Warren Buffet is a great personification of this.

What has been your greatest achievement?