If there is one organisational function that is under enormous pressure today to catapult itself into tomorrow, it’s HR. The seismic impact of the pandemic on the profession has (once and for all) necessitated a digital transformation in HR. COVID-19 has provided HR the perfect opportunity to prove the function’s clear-cut business value. In this blog Hanadi El Sayyed shares five key ways that HR can drive more business value as we navigate this pandemic.
Read MoreOrganisations with the strongest cultural orientation to data-driven insights and decision-making were twice as likely to have significantly exceeded business goals. Almost all organisations are undergoing some form of digital transformation which has only been accelerated by the current pandemic. Central to confronting digital transformation, is the need to confront an onslaught of data and make sense of it. Data analytics, big data and AI are types of projects that virtually every organisation is investing in. However many feel the challenges to becoming data-driven are in people, process and culture - not technology.
Read MoreCareers are changing. The era of linear career paths as the #1 form of professional growth is coming to an end. Slowly but surely, “career switches” are becoming less of a surprise (or even concern) as the global workforce acknowledges the rapidly changing job market. What’s more, the spotlight is on lifelong learning to keep employee skillsets – and employees – agile throughout their careers. In this blog Caroline Styr examines the role of the Talent Marketplace in attracting and retaining top talent, along side the three components of a culture that supports internal mobility and talent marketplace adoption.
Read MoreIt is crucial to devise a good hypothesis for your people analytics project in order to connect people data to real business problems. A good hypothesis also helps to ensure that you select the right analytical approach for your project and that the project isn’t biased by pre-conceived notions. In this short bitesized learning video, taken from our online course - Framing Business Questions and Developing Hypotheses for People Analytics, Jonathan Ferrar helps us understand how we might begin building a clear and concise hypothesis for any analytics projects we’re embarking on.
Read MoreFor decades employee surveys have enabled conversation, however getting to the nitty-gritty of what employees are trying to communicate isn’t always straight-forward. Text analytics gives organisations the opportunity to tap into a wealth of rich data and turn around insights quickly. Andrew Marritt CEO of OrganizationView, shares his thoughts on how text analytics can be used to not only understand employee sentiment, but also drive real business impact.
Read MoreDavid Green’s selection of articles of the month for June is unsurprisingly dominated by Covid-19 and #BlackLivesMatter, but also features some fascinating pieces on D&I, the future of the workplace, ethics, how people analytics drives business value, employee segmentation, the curse of analytics maturity models, machine learning in HR and HR Tech.
Read MoreHR needs a digital HR agenda that focuses on the few activities that generate the biggest business value in the new world of work. It also needs to change the way the function works, with an emphasis and focus on innovation. If not, HR is doomed to simply translate ‘digital HR’ as ‘a new HRIS’ – which is a high-risk undertaking, missing out on the great digital opportunities already on the table. In this blog post and short video, Volker Jacobs walks through the 9 areas that are critical in building a digital HR strategy.
Read MorePeople Analytics is on the rise in Asia, with LinkedIn’s The Rise of Analytics in HR regional report for Asia-Pacific finding that in the five years to 2018, there has been a 70% increase in specialised analytics professionals in HR in the region. In this blog David Green speaks to Sherry Xie, to learn more about why people analytics is growing so fast in China and some of the work she and the People Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning team are doing in.
Read MoreThe top trend in the Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report for 2019 was the need for organisations to change the way people learn. The report highlighted three broad trends in how learning is evolving; it is becoming more integrated with work, it is becoming more personal, and it is shifting slowly towards lifelong models. Our very own Ian Bailie, Managing Director of myHRfuture recently spoke to John Sumser at the HRExaminer about the changing nature of learning and the role that myHRfuture as a learning experience platform, is playing in the continuous learning space. In this blog we’ve summarised some of the key themes present in this discussion.
Read MoreIn this article David Green outlines five steps to getting started in people analytics: from learning about your business and ensuring you’re answering the right business questions with your people analytics projects to engaging the right stakeholders from the beginning. David walks through resources and case studies that might help you as you embark on this journey to build your people analytics capability.
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