How Strategic Workforce Planning adds Business Value

In her previous articles, Alicia Roach has examined the “what” of workforce planning the “why” you should care about and the “how” you successfully implement strategic workforce planning within your organisation. In this fascinating article she examines how strategic workforce planning adds business value. The primary reason that many business initiatives are not having the requisite levels of outcomes and impact comes down to two questions, the first “Does your organisation know what workforce is needed now?” and “What about in 3-5 years time?”. Throughout this article Alicia examines these two questions, in order to help us understand how strategic workforce planning, when done correctly can drive real business value.

Workforce PlanningAlicia RoachNovember 20, 2019Strategic Workforce Planning, HR Strategy, Business ValueComment

The Best HR and People Analytics Articles of October 2019

In his regular monthly round-up of the best articles on people analytics, the future of work and data-driven HR, David features insights from companies like PepsiCo, Bayer, IBM, Huawei, Google, Unilever, Asana, JP Morgan and Bristol Myers-Squibb, and topics covering workplace design, Strategic Workforce Planning, ONA, Employee Experience, developing a data culture, ethics, diversity and much more.

David GreenNovember 7, 2019Comment

How do you Measure the Customer Experience of HR?

The argument for proactively managing the customer experience of HR (CxHR) is clear: organisations who successfully deliver on the ‘moments that matter’ can positively influence employee engagement. For the more transactional interactions with HR services, HR should deliver an ‘effortless experience’. By removing friction from transactional processes, we can safeguard employee productivity and avoid damaging employee engagement. So how do we measure the customer experience of HR?

Digital HR, Customer Experience of HRVolker JacobsNovember 4, 2019Digital HR, Customer Experience of HRComment

What Does Agile Mean to HR?

Agile isn't just for Tech anymore. It's transforming how organisations hire, develop and manage their people. It's also transforming how HR interacts with the workforce from doing things for employees to designing programs and technology with and for employees. In many ways agile is the backbone of efforts to design, understand and improve the employee experience. In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Anna Tavis a Clinical Associate Professor of Human Capital Management at New York University about what is required by HR to truly become an agile organisation and what it really means to be agile in today’s world.

Manpreet RandhawaOctober 31, 2019Comment

Why Should You Use Python for People Analytics?

In this bitesized learning Ben Zweig explains how the tools being used in people analytics today are changing and why Python is becoming one of the more popular choices to analyse large sets of data. Throughout our online course Ben takes us through the basics of using Python and how you can use it for your people analytics projects, as well as teaching you some of the basic code that you need to get started.

People AnalyticsGuest UserOctober 24, 2019Python, HR AnalyticsComment

How to Use and Analyse Text from Employee Surveys

We increasingly expect a similar experience at work as that we enjoy as consumers. This coupled with advances in technology and the growth of people analytics has seen a surge of growth and innovation in the field of employee experience and surveys. These are just some of the areas David Green covers with his guest Sarah Johnson, Vice President of Enterprise Surveys and Workforce Analytics at Perceptyx, in this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast. Sarah is an IO psychologist who has been in the survey research space for 35 years and combines her wealth of experience with an exciting vision for the future.

Future of WorkManpreet RandhawaOctober 23, 2019Text Analytics, HR TechnologyComment

Creating a Digital, Agile and Business Focused HR Function

To navigate the increasingly complex world of talent, HR needs to grow more quickly into a strategic advisor. More companies will need CHROs and they will need to have an equal voice alongside CEOs and CFOs in the most critical business decisions. In the coming decades of disruption, the management of talent will become the main differentiator of high-performing organisations, this requires HR 3.0. In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders David Green speaks to Keith McNulty, Head of People Analytics and Measurement team at McKinsey, about what HR 3.0 is and what it means for HR as a function.

People AnalyticsGuest UserOctober 9, 2019Future of Work, HR Skills of the Future, HR transformation, HR AnalyticsComment

The Best Articles on HR, People Analytics & the Future of Work of September 2019

In his regular monthly round-up of the top articles for September, David features a diverse selection of articles covering topics such as the evolution of Strategic Workforce Planning, how analytics can reduce collaborative overload, examples of how companies have enabled their HR Business Partners with analytics and case studies from the likes of McDonalds, McKinsey, LEGO, Merck Group and Lloyds Banking Group. Featured authors include Lexy Martin, Rob Cross, Anna Tavis, Keith McNulty and Peter Cappelli.

David GreenOctober 3, 2019Comment

Why HR Technology is becoming Work Technology

The HR technology space continues to attract a lot of attention as well as a growing level of investment, with over 40,000 applications being tracked and a current value amounting to $400 billion, it begs the question, how do you navigate what is a complex and at times confusing market and should it even be called HR Tech anyway? In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Jason Corsello, founder and CEO at the Acadian company and previously Head of Strategy and Corporate Development at Cornerstone, about the shift from HR Tech to work Tech.

Digital HRGuest UserSeptember 27, 2019HR Technology, Work Technology, FutComment

What are the Four Expectations for Measuring Employee Experience?

The finance tech transformation makes people a critical success factor for the financial services industry: Engaging critical talent while building a more agile organisation has become essential to competing and innovating in the new world of financial services. Managing the employee experience is the most actionable way to drive retention, attraction and work productivity during the biggest talent shift, the industry has ever been facing. In this article Volker Jacobs, founder of the TI-People, outlines the expectations for measuring Employee Experience.

Digital HRVolker JacobsSeptember 24, 2019Employee Experience, Employee EngagementComment

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