The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of April 2021

Presenting another bumper edition of the best HR and People Analytics resources of the month – Continuing the experimentation theme many of the articles focus on how HR and people analytics teams are using data to help shape strategies relating to return to workplace, hybrid work and new ways of working. Contributors this month include: Nickle LaMoreaux, Tanuj Kapilashrami, Isabel Naidoo, Dave Ulrich, John Boudreau, Claude Silver, Madhura Chakrabarti, PhD Lynda Gratton, Amy Edmondson, Stacia Sherman Garr, Lexy Martin (she/her) Dylan Mendelson, Andreas Kyprianou, Bruce Daisley, Sayantani Pyne, + many more.

What Does HR Need to do to Prepare for Hybrid Working?

We had the pleasure of speaking with Bhushan Sethi, joint global leader of PwC’s People & Organisation practice, to discuss insights from their recent Workforce and CHRO Pulse Surveys. The surveys have been running since the start of Covid-19 with the aim of understanding the business community’s sentiment and experience with different aspects of the pandemic. The results we discuss here are based on responses from 2000 US workers and nearly 100 CHROs.

People Analytics, Future of WorkCaroline Styr and Bhushan SethiApril 13, 2021Remote WorkingComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of March 2021

David Green’s collection of the top HR and People Analytics articles for March focuses on HR’s role in shaping the return to the workplace, hybrid work and new ways of working strategies. You’ll learn from several CHROs and heads of people analytics about the work they are leading including: Leena Nair, Jeroen Wels, Steven Baert, Kathleen Hogan, Dawn Klinghoffer, Katarina Berg (she/her), Alexander Westerdahl, Alexis Fink, Jeremy Shapiro (he/his), Donna Morris and Serena H. Huang, Ph.D.

David GreenApril 9, 2021Comment

How Working with HR Tech Start-Ups Drives Innovation at Unilever

In this article, we’re taking a look at “corporate venturing” – how large organisations engage with innovative start-ups. While typically these collaborations aim to innovate consumer-facing products and services, they can also be used to disrupt organisations internally as well. We look at a specific example of this from Unilever, a large organisation that developed their internal Talent Marketplace with HR tech start-up, Gloat.

People Analytics, Digital HRCaroline StyrMarch 29, 2021HR Technology, InnovationComment

How to Build a Workforce Planning Strategy that Delivers Business Value

Workforce planning is a business activity. It is not an HR activity. In leading companies, workforce planning delivers millions of dollars to the enterprise through predicting where skills and workforce costs will be in the future and how to plan for them in the right locations, while managing existing costs. In research conducted in 2020 across almost 50 global organisations, including in-depth studies of twelve Fortune 500 companies, Insight222 concluded that there are significant factors that leading companies perform when they “do workforce planning well.” Throughout this article we explore the nine dimensions for excellence in workforce planning.

Four Considerations for the Future of People Analytics

What is the future of People Analytics, where is it headed and how do we ensure that we’re adding real value? In this blog Marta Gascón Corella shares four key considerations for the future of people analytics. She examines the role of predictive vs advanced analytics, the necessary ethical improvements and considerations required when leveraging data and finally the role of people analytics in managing people based on evidence for organisational improvement.

People AnalyticsMarta Gascón CorellaMarch 18, 2021Future of WorkComment

How can HR Prepare Organisations for Hybrid Working?

During 2020, Ethan Bernstein, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, conducted research in collaboration with Ben Waber, CEO of Humanyze, to understand the impact of remote work on employees. The findings of this research have been widely cited and used to help guide organisations and their workforces through the pandemic. In this blog post we explore three things HR can do to prepare their organisations for hybrid working in a post pandemic world.

Future of Work, Digital HR, People AnalyticsCaroline StyrMarch 11, 2021Remote Working, Hybrid Working, Future of WorkComment

The Best HR & People Analytics Articles of February 2021

With an end in sight and a return to ‘normal’ imminent David Green’s collection of the top HR and People Analytics articles for February has a strong focus on the role of hybrid work, return to the workplace and new ways of working, with articles from: John Boudreau, Susan Lund, Gerald Kane, Dave Ulrich, Heather E. McGowan, Anna Lundström and Ethan Bernstein and many others its a great collection of resources and a must read!

Why is Curiosity a Crucial Skill in People Analytics?

Research suggests that curiosity is linked to better job performance, communication and creativity just to name a few, however despite it’s clear positive impacts, it is often discouraged in organisations for fear of slowing down decision-making processes, people becoming harder to manage and disrupting the status quo. In this article, we’re going to beat the drum once again for more curiosity! And amongst people analytics professionals in particular, by looking at three aspects of curiosity that will ensure your people analytics projects deliver clear business value.

People AnalyticsCaroline StyrMarch 1, 2021Data StorytellingComment

Increasing Workforce Agility with Talent Marketplace

Traditional methods of connecting skills with job roles are unreliable. Research from Gartner shows that 40% of employees are frequently completing tasks outside their job description, proving that roles are ill-designed to capture the skills required for today’s workflows. Using skills adjacency to inform internal mobility and talent redeployment in workforce planning activities is a significantly more agile way of connecting the dots between learning and work, that can accommodate the rapid changes impacting almost all organisations. In this blog we explore how talent marketplace can drive greater workforce agility.

Workforce PlanningCaroline StyrFebruary 18, 2021Talent Marketplace, People AnalyticsComment

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