Every day, whether or not we realize it, we are measuring things in order to make our lives better. From the length of our commutes to the size of our retirement plans to the amount of space left on our DVRs, we want to know where we stand and how to make it better....
Organizations are evolving faster than ever, and too many managers and HR leaders operate under the assumption that what they are doing is working. But is your company truly keeping up with the global economy that is emerging around it? To determine which strategies...
If you’ve been in the business world long enough, you hear the term “benchmarking” tossed around quite a bit. According to Bain & Company, “The objective of benchmarking is to find examples of superior performance and to understand the processes and practices...
When you think of big data, any of the following phrases might come to mind: growth, explosion, flood, torrent, etc. With 2.7 zetabytes of data existing in the digital universe today, there’s no other way to describe the amount of data businesses are dealing with than...
Data science is all about the numbers, but those numbers always have a story to tell. For example, they can identify human capital risks, such as attrition and turnover, as well as future human capital demands like training and benefits. In this blog post, we have a...
While businesses become more adept at capturing big data, few are really leveraging data’s predictive power because they fail to take into account the context of that information. But that doesn’t stop them from producing charts and graphs to depict data. Don’t get us...
Measuring human resources (HR) performance is a standard for successful organizations, but the challenge of HR measurement emerges when senior management asks HR to provide a holistic view of workforce performance. HR professionals generally respond to this challenge...
Employee engagement is a huge topic in the business world, but how many companies fully understand what that means? More importantly, are companies taking the right steps to keep their employees truly engaged? We know that managers "get" that engagement is important....
Recently, we published a new eBook with some common myths that often keep companies from moving forward with their workforce analytics initiative. In doing so, we also provide the reasons why these myths are simply misconceptions and not always true. For instance,...
The importance of workforce and HR analytics is clear and the ways they aid in decision making are unquestionable. The question that begs is -- how does the end user, in this case the management and decision makers, make use of the numbers that the analytics produce?...
