Winner | HRKatha Rising Star Leadership Award 2025 Every generation of HR professionals inherits a different challenge. Earlier generations had to prove HR belonged in business conversations. Today’s challenge is different. The HR function has to demonstrate that it can think like the business itself. Sumit Rastogi belongs to a generation trying to make that shift. An engineer by training, he approaches HR less as a support function than as a business capability whose success should be measured in commercial outcomes rather than activity alone. Whether discussing hiring, diversity, technology or workforce planning, he returns repeatedly to the same principle:…
Author: HRKatha Editorial Team
Only 8 per cent of Indian organisations have reached what Deloitte describes as the highest level of people analytics maturity, a stage where workforce data is embedded in business decisions rather than confined to HR reporting. It is a modest figure to sit beneath a much louder one. The report’s headline finding is that 43 per cent of organisations now operate at “advanced maturity”. That larger number combines two very different stages: 35 per cent sit at Level 3, where analytics is accessible and used, while just 8 per cent have reached Level 4, where it is institutionalised across the…