HR is stuck

1. Educated incapacity

1.1. Working too much with the present paradigm

1.2. Not ready to move to another level

2. Strategy disconnect

2.1. No vision of future

2.2. Difficulties with aligning HR strategy to business strategy

2.3. A 'unique' HR organization being a 'separated' organization

3. Outsourcing HR activities

3.1. Expectation: allows to focus on business strategy

3.2. Reality: HR is deprived of what it is good at

4. Individually great HR managers

4.1. HR is the caretaker of company's largest investment

4.2. Only few companies bring HR to a business strategy

4.3. Individual development decisions on key staffers