Positioned

Workforce Analytics

Leo Sadovy and Christian Haxholdt

HR EXECUTIVES, ON THE WHOLE, are well equipped to competently manage the basics—recruiting, hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits, training, etc.—and operating unit general managers are satisfied with the results. The missing link for HR executives is often their ability to help general managers with the more strategic issues they grapple with, like:

Are we better off keeping our geographic sales structure after the acquisition, or do we now have sufficient critical mass and concentrations of expertise to take an industry-centric approach?

Can we predict how the increased average age of our ...