HR leaders are failing to align people metrics to business objectives and performance, causing a mismatch in data and ultimately hindering the organisation's key strategic outcomes, a specialist warns.
An approach for managing complexity when building aircraft carriers and space shuttles has given an HR department new evidence and justification for its decision-making, an engineer says.
Any HR team undergoing a digital transformation must allocate significant effort to building new data "habits", or risk undermining the entire project, according to MLC Life Insurance's head of organisational development.
The organisations most prepared for the workforce of the future are maximising automation and machine learning today and making the most of the data it reveals, according to business leaders.
HR's future lies in managing platforms of talent rather than pipelines, and in developing broader talent value propositions, according to a new Mercer report.
Talent specialists are getting swamped by "metric fog", using too many metrics without measuring their data to drive decisions, according to NBN Australia's head of talent.
The next evolution of people analytics should see HR move from simply gaining and reporting on data insights to using them to create employee-focused solutions, an expert says.
The cost, time and effort it takes to measure engagement regularly has reduced drastically, but the key to good insights still hinges on asking the right questions and taking time to develop data sets, says an engagement expert.
HR professionals with analytics skills achieve higher performance ratings, according to new research that identifies in which roles these abilities are most valuable.
Most large organisations have room to improve their use of data-based strategies, and could evolve their analytics in areas such as organisational design and culture, says an expert in the field.
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