Examples of How Companies use Business Intelligence in HR

In a recent poll conducted during the Driving Corporate Performance with HR Analytics webinar, Human Resource business leaders indicate that their company already have a Business Intelligence solution. More than half of the respondents indicated that a Business Intelligence Solution exists at their company:

Not surprisingly, none of the respondents indicated that their Business Intelligence solutions was being used for HR Analytics:

During the webinar, attendees were also asked about Business Intelligence maturity. Again, none of the respondents indicated they use Business Intelligence for predictive purposes. Most use Business Intelligence tools as a static reporting tool, and some for Analysis – mostly Financial, Customer or Operational levels:

The 20 minute session was quite informative, and was filled with excellent examples of how companies can use Business Intelligence for HR. Click here to view the entire session.

The Role of Big Data Analytics in HR: Speed, Satisfaction and Scale

Data, information, analytics, visibility, insight. These words are everywhere in conversations about talent and HR. Companies want to run more effectively and efficiently and a big factor in making that a reality is the organization’s ability to not only gather relevant employee data, but integrate it and correlate it in meaningful ways, and serve it up to the business in a timely manner. One of the biggest differentiators of top performing organizations in Aberdeen’s January 2012 study, Human Capital Management Trends 2012 was providing the business with access to relevant talent and workforce management data. But as the volume of data explodes, the ability to manage it must keep pace. This brief looks at how organizations are achieving better business results through better solutions to the problems of Big Data.

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Author:
Nathaniel Rowe, Senior Research Associate
Aberdeen Group

Mollie Lomardi, Research Director
Aberdeen Group

Do you know your Workforce’s Productive Capability?

Productive Capability: Impacting Profitability (DOWNLOAD FULL WHITE PAPER)

How do you measure the productive capability of your organization?

You may measure the economic value of your customers, why not employees? Our approach focuses on value, and understanding the driving force to convert these insights into desired results.You may already use a measuring and management system for production, finance, marketing, sales and information technology, yet you may not be effectively measuring your most important profit lever and asset, people, and their productive capability.

The Pivot Point

The pivot point in any business is always people. It doesn’t matter what best in class practices or technology you have deployed, nothing happens without people! In some cases it is your biggest expense and bewilderment. It is the great mystery of business. It is the single most important factor of your business. People are your competitive advantage! People matter.

Profit Lever = People!

As Jac Fitz-Enz renowned Human Captial strategist says, knowing the economic value of your employees is about understanding the connection between people and profitability. People are the critical differentiators of business. People are your profit lever! The chasm between every great business plan and success is execution. Execution is about people. And where is people performance information captured? HR systems. But, HR systems are not perceived as strategic or operationally critical…

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Highlights from the HRPA 2012 Annual Conference & Trade Show

HR: 2012 and Beyond…Inventing the Future

HRPA’s 2012 Annual Conference & Trade Show explores the future and closely examines the forces—demographic, social and technological—that will fundamentally shift everything we take for granted about employees, work and organizations.

HRWARE’s CHRP’s attended the full conference and received valuable information that will help HRWARE deliver better products and services to its customers. Here’s the summary of the keynote sessions:

Wednesday Morning Opening Keynote: Marshall Goldsmith

Wednesday Afternoon Keynote: Amanda Lang

Thursday Morning Keynote: Emmanuel Gobillot

Thursday Afternoon Keynote: Kevin Carroll

Friday Morning Keynote: Josh Linkner

Friday Afternoon Keynote: Peter Sheahan

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Congratulations to all the Human Resources Summit Award Winners!