I\u2019ve previously defined HR strategy as any direction that \u201cshapes the workforce.\u201d\u00a0 Whether this is creating an employer brand that influences they type of people you recruit, creating talent policies that allow your employees to excel, or nurturing a culture where people are comfortable to innovate, these are all strategies that shape the makeup of your workforce, not only in who you recruit and retain, but how they develop as employees in the future of your organization.<\/p>\n
My basic assertion is that HR\u2019s job is to translate the overall organizational strategy into behaviors and competencies within the workforce.\u00a0 To do this, HR executives need a continuous supply of decision support data to align strategy to process and process to day to day operations.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take recruiting as an example.\u00a0 You have an internal population you\u2019d like to project turnover for.\u00a0 That\u2019s easy.\u00a0 You also have an external population you\u2019d like to evaluate skills and competencies for, as well as measure availability.\u00a0 Taking it a couple steps further, you\u2019d like to be able to match the internal and external metrics to your job criteria and start creating resume banks in advance.\u00a0 All of this is pretty basic stuff, and we all think about these types of issues and utilizing data along these lines.<\/p>\n
The problem is that we don\u2019t use BI as BI \u2013 we use reporting as a normal course of action, but that\u2019s not a strategic use of the tools we have at our disposal.\u00a0 Most of us think about grabbing a report and analyzing the data, but not necessarily having the BI engine integrate and decipher the information for us so that we have enhanced decision support.<\/p>\n
To really get to \u201cshaping the workforce\u201d we need to understand all the points of data and how that impact one another.\u00a0 Without great analytics supporting us, and without our ability to comprehend the value it can bring us, we can\u2019t really expect to be making the most informed decisions.\u00a0 Increasingly we have more and more data at our disposal with better and better tools.\u00a0 This creates an environment where paradigm shifts occur often as we change the way we use the tools as they become better able to support us.\u00a0 If you\u2019re still in a reporting world, you\u2019re in the wrong world.\u00a0 Begin expecting your BI output to reflect decision support and start reading into the data to see how the BI tools are reaching new levels of interpretation for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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