Being unable to close the talent gap at your organization is a serious issue, leading to missed opportunities and lost business now and in the future. But how can you figure out what skills you need to bridge the talent gap? Companies that embrace people analytics to uncover and bridge these gaps within their organizations…
Who would have thought that 2020 would bring us a ‘new normal’? In the Netherlands, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Dutch Railways has been all over the news. Train traveling as we knew it will probably never return, which has big financial consequences. It has also had an impact on our People Analytics…
Getting started with people analytics (PA) is one thing, but making sure the adoption goes smoothly is another. In this article, we look at recent developments in the people analytics space and discuss six best practices to ensure a successful adoption of PA in your organization. Here goes! ContentRecent developments in people analyticsGetting started with…
I recently read an interview with a business leader about how people analytics drives business outcomes. The interviewee said that “Insight without outcome is simply overhead.” While this is absolutely true, the comment leaves out another key component of effective people analytics: “Analytics without action is simply overhead.” At Visier, we recognize there is a…
An idea that I often hear is that “People Analytics should be used for strategic purposes” (or something along those lines). While I agree with the statement in general, I also think it tends to be subjected to tunnel vision. The explanation that I regularly hear is about how one should find analytics cases worth…
The last 6 months have, more than ever, emphasized the importance of knowing what is coming. In this article, we take a closer look at forecasting. Forecasting can be applied to a range of HR-related topics. We will specifically examine how forecasting models can be deployed in R and end with an example analysis on…
On the 25th of May 2018, the world of People Analytics changed. On that date, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was applied by the European Union. The GDPR sets out requirements for organizations on how to collect, store, and manage personal data. In this article, I will examine the impact of GDPR on People…
We recently published an article titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning for HR Practitioners” where we touched on the three broad types of Machine Learning (ML); reinforcement, supervised, and unsupervised learning. In this follow-up article, we will explore unsupervised ML in more depth. We will demonstrate, how we use cluster analysis, a subset of…
We are living in a world that is changing at a lightning pace and overloaded with information, continual technological revolutions, and uncertainty, like the phase we all are going through with Covid-19. The consequences are radical. All these changes are transforming the way we live, how we communicate with each other, how we create and…
“…whenever we are faced with a new people issue at Google now, we don’t ask ourselves, what does successful organization X do with this topic? Instead, we ask ourselves, what does the literature say? And if I have one piece of advice to give all the businesses that are in the audience out here, it…