People Analytics Projects: Do NOT start with the data
HR professionals and company executives believe that data is the “golden chalice ” in their pursuit of supreme knowledge. However, the truth is that no matter how advanced your analytics skills and data governance infrastructure are, your data will not provide you with a ready-made solution unless you ask it specific questions regarding data analysis. Why should we always start with asking specific questions? 1. Asking the right questions means that we have identified an important business challenge that requires immediate understanding. A lot of our HR clients know that we love helping them with their employee turnover challenges with our prediction analytics solutions. Some months ago, one of our clients approached us initially because they wanted to implement our turnover algorithms to the scholarship program they were running with a number of universities. Every year they provide to very competent individuals highly competitive and gene...