analytics
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What the Meta?
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In the world of HR, the ability of HR practitioners to grapple with data and glean insights has been suspect by business leaders for a long time. There are a variety of reasons for this from the lack of sufficiently…
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Common Sense KPI’s Gone Wrong
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I love dashboards. I have a goals list on my phone tracking how many miles I’m supposed to run or ride on my bike. I have a trending graph on the device that tells my how much I weigh. The…
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All Posts, Analytics and Big Data, Big Data, Cloud, Data & Metrics, Features, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Social Talent, TalentJocks vs. Nerds
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“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy…
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Analytics and Big Data, Big Data, Data & Metrics, Features, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR TechnologyBread & Butter
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It always frustrates me when I’m dieting – I have to forego one of my favorite food items: Butter. Butter (fat) along with bacon fat (fat) is one of those amazing joys of life. When butter is great, a bit…
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Collaboration, Communications, Data & Metrics, Engagement, Features, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, TalentHR, Twitter and Osama bin Laden
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Yeah – I’m going to write about this. I just finished watching Zero Dark Thirty on the plane, and I’m thinking back to that day. I remember landing in the Chicago airport, booting up my phone and checking Twitter. Scrolling…
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Is Big Data An HR Directive?
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I have an argument with my wife every few years. I tend to like cars with a bit more horsepower. I mean, that 1 time a year when there is a really stupid driver about to crash into you, a…
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How To Give All The Wrong Answers
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As per my last post,at the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. Being with family for 2 weeks is quite an expose into mannerisms that each of us have. I was particularly intrigued by my…
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How To Ask All The Wrong Questions
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At the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. When I say family vacation, I mean not just my wife and me, but my brother’s family along with my parents, visiting all of the senior members…
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Using HR Analytics to WIN
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So I have to admit it’s hard to come off the election and not write about this. This election was defined by some pretty deep population analysis, incredible forecasting and pretty significant actions to try to address the most important…
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Why Aren’t We Using Our Analytics?
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There are everyday annoyances, and then there are just things that piss you off. Usually the things that make me really angry are when something should have been fixed, but it hasn’t been. Or something is happening too slowly where I…
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Predictive Analytics
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I’ve always thought I was pretty good at analytics.Not being a practitioner who is sitting in the middle of data all the time, I get more time to just think about the type of analytics that it takes to really…
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Commonizing Meaning
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I have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is Taiwanese for highly unlikely or that’s ridiculous. (sp?) “Oh shiitake” (shitzu…
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Serendipity versus Decision Support
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Would I be where I am today if I had all the facts every time? I’m actually confident that if it were up to me, I would be digging ditches for a living somewhere (not to demean ditch diggers). Let’s…
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Core HR is not a Hub
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I came across this quite a few years ago as we started to tinker around with core HR systems needing to integrate with more systems than just payroll and benefits, and as analytics engines started to take off en masse. …
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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Last post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been using these metrics forever, but they don’t necessarily measure actual effectiveness. …
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HRs Correlation to Business
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When we talk about the impact of HR activities on our business’s operational production, we don’t usually think that there is a direct correlation. In fact, some of our activities probably do have a relatively high correlation effect on business…
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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If you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to fill, fills per recruiter, etc. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of…
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Misinterpreting Apple and Microsoft
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As a global community, we all hate Bill Gates. Actually we all hate Microsoft. While we might depend on things like Microsoft Outlook and the MS Office suite of products, most of us probably believe that they have a bit…
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Explaining Facts and Dimensions
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Fact: A turnover rate based on a calculation Dimension: Historical time trend of turnover Fact: The number of heads in your HR database Dimension: The breakdown of headcount by organization Fact: The number of FTE’s in any given job code…
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The Error of Operational Reports
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Julian had a childhood friend named Lucy. One day, he came home with one of those kindergarten drawings with a little girl and diamonds and presented it to his father. John asked him what the drawing was, and Julian replies,…