Another example of our work

May 22, 2013

Real examples of our work are somewhat hard to share due to client confidentiality, however we do occasionally work with companies outside our usual HR / employee-data domain and these can be excellent windows into the type of work we deliver. For the publication of today’s Financial Times / Bowen Cragg & Co Index of [...]

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New directions in employee engagement research

April 17, 2013

During the first few months of 2013 we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of organizations wanting to change the way that they’ve traditionally measured employee engagement. The standardized, once-a-year survey is being challenged like never before. Part of this seems to match a marked shift in the types of individuals responsible for employee [...]

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Cost ≠ Value. Issues with the total compensation approach

April 12, 2013

In several sectors compensation professionals and the HR teams they serve talk about total compensation. When communicating compensation messages with employees and prospective employees they sum the cost of each component and present this as the value of the total package. Unfortunately what is important to employees is not the fiscal cost of the package, [...]

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The new HR analytics centre of excellence

April 2, 2013

HR analytics at the top firms continues to develop at a rapid rate, but one thing remains certain – that the direction it’s moving continues to demand new skills for the HR department. When I was part of the global HR analytics team at a global bank I was the only economist in a team [...]

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Why prediction is essential for reporting

March 24, 2013

In the last post I discussed the concept of answering the obvious next question when showing data. This one extends that theme to show why reporting frequently needs to include forecasting or prediction. Most maturity models of HR analytics show that reporting is the first step and needs to be achieved before moving on to [...]

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The obvious next question in reporting design

March 23, 2013

One of the key concepts used by story tellers in any medium is that of answering the obvious next questions. If a filmmaker shows a close-up of a previously unknown face the obvious next question would be ‘who is this person’, the filmmaker then proceeds to answer the question. The obvious next question serves to [...]

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HR analytics on G-Cloud ii

October 30, 2012

We’re delighted to announce that a government-specific version of OrganizationView’s HR Analytics and data visualisation is now available to the UK public sector through the G-Cloud ii procurement framework. OrganizationView worked closely with our technology partner – FlyingBinary – to develop the service that is available via the CloudStore. We believe that it enables public [...]

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Workforce planning – the dynamic approach

September 17, 2012

This article was first published on 3 September 2012 on the HR Tech Europe Blog Better decision-making depends on us reducing uncertainty about what is going to happen, not what has happened. Of course, the past is often a good predictor of the future but a way of understanding how the future is likely to [...]

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Quantifying the intangible

August 30, 2012

This article was first published on 28 August 2012 on the HR Tech Europe Blog When pressed to nominate one book which the HR analyst should have on their shelves I tend to suggest Douglas Hubbard’s ‘How to measure anything’. In it Hubbard give a clear and systematic approach to quantifying the so-called intangibles which [...]

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Reducing cost and improving responsiveness in HR Reporting

August 24, 2012

Two models of reporting and analytics dominate HR departments these days. The first in a devolved approach – individual HR managers, or functional teams are responsible for their own reporting. The other is less common, a central HR reporting team. Whilst the adoption of the second can quickly slip to the former if speed, availability [...]

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