Optimize 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 trust

It'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.

Current research clearly shows that Human Resource (HR) professionals are playing catch-up when it comes to adopting analytics. According to Bersin by Deloitte, only 14% of human resources departments have an analytics function. With all the evidence we have on the value of analytics from other departments, HR has to do better.

Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People shows how any organization can bring advanced analytics into the realm of human resources in order to improve business goals and boost the bottom line. In this vital resource, Gene Pease-Founder and CEO of Vestrics-offers a framework for optimizing human capital investments through the use of predictive analysis. Step by step, the author reveals how HR professionals can transition from unreliable anecdotes and outdated surveys to advanced measurement techniques that combine the data from multiple systems into a unified plan of action that enhances business results.

This important book is filled with real-life, practical examples from some of the world's leading companies. They show how analytical approaches have been applied effectively, and executives and thought leaders explain how advanced analytics are informing them to make better business decisions. These compelling illustrations can serve as a template for success for any organization considering adopting analytics. Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People offers practical advice, down-to-earth examples, and a prescription for bringing dispersed data together, organizing it, and turning it into useful information. The book also shows how to build an individual data strategy that is right for your organization by taking advantage of the wealth of available tools.

Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People contains information on the most current research on the state of current HR measurement techniques and offers an overview of the important considerations surrounding data security, privacy, ethics, and employee trust.

Now is the time for HR leaders to start measuring the things that matter and turning those measurements into actual information that goes beyond the spreadsheet. Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People offers the strategies and information for getting started, and where to go from there.