One of the key themes for many organizations in the next 10 years will be digital transformation. Digital adoption and transformation is a key development for most organizations in their strategic goals. This finding will only be accelerated during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with this trend, HR departments are undergoing an impact…
We live in an exciting time of technological progress. Not only does computing power continue to double about every two years (known as Moore’s law), more data is generated exponentially as more devices are connected to the internet every day. These developments have a huge impact on our daily lives and the way we work.…
Most organizations, small and large, have a defined vision, mission, and strategy. It communicates what an organization of people believes in (vision), its goal (mission), and how they want to achieve this goal in the coming years (strategy). In order to execute this strategy successfully, the organization needs the right number of people with the…
The Netherlands is ranked the sixth in the world in terms of the quality of railroad infrastructure. However, in order to prepare for the future, the currently existing infrastructure needs a 30% increase in capacity. This requires tremendous changes in the current workforce. In this case study, strategic workforce planning is applied to solve this…
Together with AIHR, I worked on a digital HR diagnostic. With this diagnostic tool, it is possible to get an overview of the current state of Digital HR at your organization by completing a 30-minute questionnaire. In this article, I will go through some of these data to give you an overview of the state…
A growing body of experts is of opinion that the future of talent and career management is moving towards customization. Some call it ‘consumerization of HR’. Accenture calls this ‘Workforce of One’. Workforce of One is a logical next step in the evolution of HR, where business-driven HR goes hand in hand with people-centric HR. In essence,…
As HR professionals and executives are trying to move the workforce analytics agenda forward, we are still facing challenges. Although the urgency for data-driven decision making in HR is increasing, the maturity of workforce analytics is still quite low in most organizations. Why is this? The primary reasons I’ve found working with HR leaders are:…
In previous articles, I have given multiple examples of how employees can benefit from data analytics. In this article, I would like to explore a set of different, advanced data analysis techniques to see how they can be used to analyze people data for improved organization success. Data science is increasingly incorporated in businesses, products,…
One of the most interesting challenges in the field of people analytics at the moment is to create a data-driven culture in HR. If you already have a great people analytics ‘machine’ in place, with all the governance, processes, and tech, you still need HR professionals to make this machine actually work and add business…
When hearing about People Analytics, we usually think of how the use of analytics can have a positive impact on the company and its HR department. In other words, how can the employers use data to gain new insights on people topics and affect their organization? But what if the employees could also use and…