You need the right People Analytics Leader in order to build an effective and strategic people analytics function. This person is the key evangelist and visionary for data-driven decision making, and ensures the use of people analytics always delivers values…
Strategic HR
When the Future Arrives, What Role Will HR Have?
The future is scary when you have no idea what’s coming — but that doesn’t mean companies and their human resources teams are powerless in preparing themselves. It’s time for HR departments to play a key role in not only…
It’s No Longer About Getting a Seat at the Table. Tomorrow’s CHROs Need to Lead Business Change
Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health generates some $19 billion in annual revenues and employs about 50,000 people across the nation. The healthcare company serves 50 million people in all 50 states. Highmark’s diversified portfolio includes businesses in health insurance, healthcare delivery, retail…
Get Ready For Analytics By Cleaning House Now
It’s coming, whether we like it or not. Look at the topics and exhibitors at any HR conference. It’s coming. Artificial intelligence has the potential to relieve overburdened HR teams from decisions that can be made more easily and more…
The ‘Walk Down the Hall’ Method of Handling Analytics Demands
The first challenge of an analytics department is that they are off on their own and no one else in the company knows what they do. The second challenge is that they get discovered and everyone starts thinking of studies…
Long Live Human Reconnection!
Lucy Lloyd doesn’t like the name “Human Resources.” She says it, “Evokes this idea that people are some kind of capital asset to be bought and sold; to be traded and downsized.” So what does she think it should be…
The Total Cost of Your Workforce Is Not What You Think It Is
Do you have a detailed and accurate understanding of your total cost of workforce (TCOW)? If your organization is anything like most large businesses, the answer is no. Organizations are usually pushed to review their TCOW only when facing upheavals,…
‘Complementary HR’: HR Learns from the NFL About Complementary Outcomes
If you haven’t heard the term “complementary football,” it’s a performance improvement approach that corporations and HR shouldn’t ignore. This approach increases your chances of winning by ensuring that the outcomes of one sub-team complement and support the work of…
How HR Can Make Budgeting More Precise
Our customers sometimes tell us the stories that led them to seek out a workforce intelligence solution. One such story clearly describes a core inefficiency that is common to many companies. At this company, the leadership team wanted to develop…
The ‘Sexy’ Side of Time & Attendance: It’s Not Just Punching In
What’s the sexiest tech acquisition of the past five or six years? You probably just had “Instagram” somewhere near your lips, but what if it were a time and attendance suite? Like it or not, some HCM acquisitions are notably…
The ‘Creepy’ Potential of AI Notetaking
I first seriously looked at automated transcription 10 or 15 years ago, when Dragon Naturally Speaking was the leading product. For my purposes, the tech wasn’t quite ready then, but now, thanks to advances in AI, transcription is a genuinely…
Get Started In HR Analytics In 5 Easy Steps
As adoption of analytics is increasing and interest is soaring, more and more companies are looking for ways to get started with HR analytics. In this article, I will give you a practical guide on how to get started with…
The War for Talent Is Now a Supply Chain Problem
When Cognizant, the global IT services company, realized it couldn’t hire data scientists fast enough to keep up with its needs, it started training its own. Now its program turns out data scientists in 90 days. Accenture’s recruiting teams now…
A Brief Guide to Data-Driven Scenario Planning
Preparing to increase headcount at a large organization is like comparing the cost of bread at different supermarkets: At your regular neighborhood store, a loaf might cost $2.28, but at a high-end store, a loaf might cost $3.98. In a…
Using Job Embeddedness Theory to Improve Employee Turnover
A common concern across all industries is employee retention. Though various factors may contribute to turnover among personnel, recent research may shed new light on practical means of improving retention and reducing the costs associated with excessive employee turnover. Human…
If You Haven’t Invested in Analytics, Start Now. Here’s How
People analytics is currently having a moment in the HR space. Fueled by the growth of data science, more and more companies and organizations are trying to drive greater insight into their people and talent, and more and more vendors…
HR Get Ready: Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way We Work
As the world of work is rapidly changing amongst digital disruption, HR must keep pace. By 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be here, with robotics, artificial intelligence and automation making some roles…
5 Options For Helping Your Workforce Cope With Automation
It’s inevitable. As your organization unveils a driverless vehicle program (or just about any automation or AI platform) designed to promote efficiency and safety, you will hear the same chorus from your workforce: “Are we going to lose our jobs…
Your Next Contractor Could Be a Digital Nomad
According to new estimates from MBO Partners’ 2018 State of Independence in America research, 17 million independent workers aspire to someday become digital nomads — a term referencing workers who embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel…
The Dark Secret of Analytics that Shouldn’t Be a Secret
CEOs get excited about HR analytics because they hope it will reveal something magical. They’ve all seen Moneyball and figure that if HR gets a data scientist some shocking insights will emerge. The fact that shocking insights emerge only rarely…