56: Jayant Paleti on investment by SalesForce, why companies fail to digitalise and coming ahead in a cluttered HRMS market

Jayant Paleti [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantpaleti/] is the Co-Founder ofDarwinbox [https://darwinbox.com/]. Recognised as the most preferred HCMsolution in APAC by Gartner, Darwinbox is used by 550+ large enterprises tomanage their end to end HR needs.Prior to Darwinbox, Jayant was an investment banker at Ernst & Young. Jayantworked across functions like M&A and private equity. He is an IIT Madras and IIMLucknow alumnus. He has advised several large corporates on big investment andstrategic decisions.A visionary of the underlying scope of HR Tech, Jayant heads all sales andmarketing activities at Darwinbox. Given his exposure to the corporate orgstructure and human capital-intensive decision-making practices, he stronglybelieves the HR function can be a source of great competitive advantage for anorganization. And also, that this underlying potential can be optimallyharnessed through technology.What I discussed with Jayant: * Their investment by SalesForce * Why they are confident in coming ahead in Singapore's cluttered HRMS market * How to reduce digitalisation failures * Should companies digitalise during uncertain times? * And many more...Please enjoy!---This episode is brought to you by Wanted. Wanted is a career platform fromKorea, with over 10,000 companies and 2 million users using the platform fortalent recruitment and career growth. Since 2015, Wanted's mission has been tobring fulfilment and happiness to all professionals around the world, offeringthe best job opportunities and best-in-class career content to supportprofessional learning and growth. Adding on to the growth and innovation, Wantedintroduces to you, RoundUp.  RoundUp is a video interview collaboration tool forevery team. With a simple download of the Chrome browser extension, RoundUpinvites you and your team to host hiring interviews on Google Meet, shareinterview evaluations, then round up all interviewer comments in a singledashboard; all to help your team efficiently reach the best hiring decision. Itis currently free and available on roundup.ai [https://bit.ly/2Ua2Bgp]---Who should I speak with next? Please let me know at [email protected] you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review[https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-adrian-tan-show/id1525515088]. Itwill help bring the episode to more people.📲 Follow me online: * Youtube @AdrianTan18 [https://www.youtube.com/c/AdrianTan18] * Twitter @adriantan18 [https://twitter.com/adriantan18] * Facebook @adtan [https://www.facebook.com/adtan] * LinkedIn @adriantanck [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriantanck/] * adriantan.com.sg [https://adriantan.com.sg/] Get full access to Will That Work? at www.adriantan.com.sg/subscribe