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…
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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…
Big data comes into play when you combine data from multiple sources, systems, and departments. As this begins to happen, you gain insights into the organization that you cannot see…
Words matter. The use of the word storytelling has creeped into our vocabulary and that’s not a good thing. Words matter. From Wikipedia: Storytelling is the social and cultural activity…