Do you present data? Do you write reports that include numbers? Do people interrupt your presentations and ask if your data are “statistically significant?” Or do they interrupt and ask you a lot of “what if” questions, ignoring the points you are trying to make?
Research and Insights Archive
Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
Available Content
HR Analysts: Unleash Your Inner Storyteller
John Boudreau shares how telling a story is well-recognized as essential to HR analytics and acknowledges that “insight” is at the top of the data analytics pyramid after data becomes information. HR analytics systems even offer pre-programmed storylines with deeper analysis.
Analytics and Design for High Performance
In this webinar Drs Levenson and Fink review the evidence on the roles of technology and control systems in promoting performance, separate from employee engagement. They show how engagement can help enhance performance in some jobs while having little to no impact in other jobs.
Workforce Data Systems are Junk Food, Not a Gold Mine
Alec Levenson discusses how people analytics in organizations is at a crossroads today. Analytics and data science are the hottest buzzwords in management since re-engineering and core competencies two decades ago.
Human Capital Analytics: Why Are We Not There?
John Boudreau (CEO) and Wayne F. Cascio (University of Colorado, Denver) explain that while human capital analytics (HC analytics) recently has developed enormous interest, most organizations still find themselves struggling to move from operational reporting to analytics.
Podcast: Strategic People Analytics
Max Blumberg of Tucana People Analytics talks with Alec Levenson, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California. Alec discusses the subject of strategic analytics.
Driving Storytelling and Action Through Data
A one hour webinar with Dr. Theresa M. Welbourne to learn how like-minded business leaders are working to transform how they use data to tell stories and drive action that leads to positive results.
Analytics for Driving High Performance
In this webinar, Alec Levenson and Alexis Fink discuss some of the current challenges in the way that analytics are applied to HR and talent issues. The problem we face in organizations today is not a lack of analysis but oftentimes the opposite: too much analysis and data are thrown against the wall in the hopes that something will stick and make sense.
Using Workforce Analytics to Improve Strategy Execution
In this article Alec Levenson (CEO) introduces an approach to conducting workforce analytics that is designed to improve strategy execution and organizational effectiveness through the application of systems diagnostics.
Transform the Way You Use Data: Tell Stories and Drive Action that Leads to Positive Results
In a one hour webinar with Dr. Theresa M. Welbourne, learn how like-minded business leaders are working to transform how they use data to tell stories and drive action that leads to positive results.
I solemnly swear … an HR data and analytics manifesto
Alec Levenson discusses HR data and analytics and the principles to live by as someone who has to wrestle with what the analyses in your organization really mean and how best to use them – or ignore them.
Using Analytics Strategically in Human Resources
How can HR use analytics to understand what’s driving motivation and behavior in their organizations? Find out in this WorldatWork interview with Alec Levenson on his book, Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness.