Analytics programs are one of the most powerful tools available to modern managers and HR professionals. Analysis shows that companies making good use of analytics and the big data pools now available to them can make improvements in productivity of five to six...
Some business improvement professionals believe the goal of their work is to make themselves redundant, to take their company to the point where improvement is self-sustaining and they are no longer needed. Is it time for us, as HR professionals, to look at our jobs...
Looking forward, not back Workforce planning is becoming more and more sophisticated. Tools such as big data let us better identify and act upon patterns in our workforce, whether it’s in retirements, expansions, or the need to improve skills. Many of the tools we use...
The changing face of hiring Business is changing, and our approach to recruitment needs to change with it. Flatter structures are replacing the old hierarchies. Modern professionals value culture and passion as much as their paychecks. The pace of change grows ever...
No more supermen In their Human Capital Trends 2013 paper, Deloitte seeks to prick a hole in one of the great myths of modern management – the quest for the ideal leader. However, while they set out on a noble effort to challenge the status quo, one could argue that...
