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Informationen zum Autor GENE PEASE is a pioneer in the field of Workforce Optimization. He is the Founder and CEO of Vestrics, the leading predictive analytics and workforce optimization platform. Gene has co-authored two other books on human capital analytics and speaks at various industry events on innovative and cutting-edge topics in the HR space. Klappentext Drive better business strategy with practical analytics for people dataOptimize Your Greatest Asset -- Your People brings advanced analytics into Human Resources, giving you a framework for optimizing human capital investments through predictive analysis. You'll learn how to transition from anecdotes and surveys to more advanced measurement techniques, and combine the data from multiple systems into a unified plan of action that improves business results. Practical examples and case studies show how these techniques are applied in real-world settings, and executives and thought leaders weigh in on how advanced analytics are informing better business decisions every day. Coverage includes the latest research on the state of current HR measurement techniques, as well as the important considerations surrounding data security and employee trust.Executives and managers alike are swimming in pools of people data, spread across multiple systems that don't talk to each other. This book shows you how to bring that data together, organize it, and turn it into useful information, and how to build your data strategy to take advantage of the wealth of available tools.* Produce actionable intelligence with data from multiple systems* Move beyond activity metrics and into advanced measurements* Create stronger policy covering security, privacy, and ethics* Achieve sophisticated HR analytics without breaking employee trustIt's time for HR leaders to get over their fear of Big Data. Good data drives good business, and human capital is the biggest asset a company has. Start measuring the things that matter, and start turning those measurements into actual information that goes beyond the spreadsheet. Optimize Your Greatest Asset -- Your People shows you how to get started, and where to go from there. Zusammenfassung Drive better business strategy with practical analytics for people data Optimize Your Greatest Asset Your People brings advanced analytics into Human Resources, giving you a framework for optimizing human capital investments through predictive analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 The Need for Measurement in a Changing Environment 1 Analytics Give Companies a Competitive Edge 3 Everybody's Doing It 3 Transcending Borders 4 Slim Down, Do More 5 Everybody Wins 5 Changing Workforce 6 Who's Working Today? 7 How Are Employers Responding to Generation Z? 10 The Boomers Are Still Here 11 What about Generation X? 12 So Now What? 13 Notes 14 Chapter 2 What Exactly Is Predictive Analytics, and Why Is It Useful? 17 Workforce Planning 19 Workforce Optimization 20 What Can Analytics Do for You? 21 Using Macroeconomic Data at Wells Fargo 23 Reducing Turnover with Unstructured Data 25 Notes 27 Chapter 3 The State of Human Capital Analytics 29 Profiling the Early Adopters 32 Barriers and Key Enablers to Success 38 Notes 40 Chapter 4 From Data to Action 41 The Continuum of Analytics 43 Taking Action 48 Designing the Study 52 Conducting the Study 53 Other Differentiators 55 Notes 57 Chapter 5 The Big Data Conundrum 59 Death by Dashboard 61 What to Do 64 Descriptive Analysis 65 How Much Data Is Big? 66 Ethics and Other Considerations 68 The Career Perspective 69
