There is an increasing awareness of the business case for inclusion and diversity. Companies today have a diversity mandate that they are actively following not just for social responsibility but…
I once met a peer at a conference, who admitted that understanding people analytics changed her life. She told me that understanding analytics has not only made her the better…
A few years ago, the CHRO of a prominent business approached me to discuss one of the organizations most pressing questions. “Can you help us diagnose why have we seen…
1. HR machine learning and predictive analytics is over-hyped. There has been quite a bit written about, and many HR technology vendors are touting the virtues of machine learning and…
In 2004, I founded Capital Analytics, dba Vestrics, with some brilliant scientists from Duke University and three terrific angel investors. Our idea was simple – apply drug trial methodology to…
Since the 2008 recession, HR leaders are all too familiar with directives to do more with less. As the economy has slowly improved, many organizations have more resources available to…
For the past dozen years I have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of incredibly smart scientists who have helped shepherd advanced analytics into the human resources profession….
Do you have so much data that you’re completely overwhelmed to the point of being frozen with a big pile of stuff? This is what I call “death by dashboard.”…
Most dashboards/benchmarks/scorecards present data that is correlated. When two variables change together in some consistent way (e.g. training and improved performance), they appear to be related and are said to…
