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Start with firm foundations to obtain stable HR data

August 9, 2012 Ian J Cook Health and Safety, HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

I am often contacted by human resources groups and analysts looking to take their work to the next level and discover the next great insight. Often they are seeking some holy grail or mystic equation that will simply answer the complex questions that human systems create. This is a worthy and powerful quest and one which is moving human resources groups and the organizations they serve into a better and more productive position. Unfortunately…

Analytics, common approach, common standard, Data, data quality, data structure, HR data, HR metrics, HR Metrics Service, HRIS, metrics, qualitative, quantitative, system design, system output

Perception is reality

March 8, 2012 Ian J Cook HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources

Last night, I was presenting to an MBA class at the University of British Columbia. For interest’s sake, I started with the question, “what are your perceptions of HR?”

The negative answers I got back were not surprising…

Analytics, HR data, HR data and analytics, HR metrics, hr strategy, influence, metrics

Predictive analytics for HR

January 12, 2012 Ian J Cook HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources

The start of any year is the time to focus on trends. Predictive analytics is one of the trends that looks “hot” for 2012 in the world of HR measurement.

employee turnover, employment, hr analytics, HR measurement, metrics, predictions, productivity

Performance is relative

June 9, 2011 Ian J Cook HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

How do we resolve this dilemma? Time to Fill does tell us something important, yet we cannot be sure whether a change to this number is due to our own efforts or the effects of the overall job market.

Analytics, benchmark or a comparator, comparison group, HR, HR activities, HR Metric Service, HRIS, Hrmetricsservice, measurement, metrics, performance, recruitment, strategy, Time to Fill

Do you track any human resources metrics?

March 16, 2011 Adam Gorley HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources

Back in the heady days of summer 2010, our sister publication HRinfodesk began a series of polls on human resources management systems (HRMS) and metrics. In July, about one-third of respondents said they already use an HRMS and just over one in ten said they were considering it. In August, one-third of HRMS users said it makes their jobs easier, while the rest said the system offered no improvement or actually made things more difficult.

HRinfodesk, HRIS, HRMS, Human Resources Information System, human resources management system, metrics, profitability, strategy, tracking