Did you ever notice how young children have high career aspirations? They want to be professional athletes, singers, or even "professional YouTubers." Yes, that's really an aspiration for children today.

Business value. That's the ultimate goal of HR technology adoptions, and our latest research shows that businesses adopting modern HCM technology see more value than those with more antiquated systems. It also showed that business leaders outside HR were more likely to say their HR technology systems were strategic contributors to employer value instead of merely being repositories for administrative information.

This year's HR Technology Conference and Expo is sure to bring together some of the hottest vendors in the space, but is it also going to bring a new buzzword?