Water and Energy International

This review paper identifies the linkages between digital human resource management and people's performance in the Indian energy sector, ensuring competitive advantage, including information system strategising for sustainability, stability, and business excellence. This article presents the literature review results on keywords identified from interviews with experts from the energy sector. The experts’ perspective highlights that the non-amalgamation of business performance and excellence in the human resource function leads to companies’ opportunity costs. The inferences were made using the voyant tools. The findings suggest that the key themes of digitalisation change in the energy sector are- Digital HR and performance, Digital HR implementation and Digital HR and competitive advantage. This business problem, if explored, by mapping strategic activity with people performance by identifying keywords from managerial levels and their view on the role of digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence. The prerequisites for a successful digitalisation are continuously improving and exploring unexplored frontiers for managing HR Digitally for HR Excellence and Sustainable Business Performance. The HR experts seek a solution to the vital question of amalgamating digitalisation and people performance to achieve competitive advantage.