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Applying Analytics to Your Workforce

Realizing Returns on Your Most Valuable Asset

“Business leaders . . . need more rigorous, logical, and principles-based frameworks for understanding the connections between human capital and organizational success.”

—Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau, Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives

The connective tissue between vision and action is analytics. No matter how brilliant a company’s strategic vision, it must be evaluated against how well the market will embrace it, how its supply chain can obtain the needed resources, and how much the company can invest in that strategy. Even then, the strategy will fail unless it is clear how to organize and motivate the workforce ...

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