by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 16, 2020 | Analytics
Until the 1980s workforce planning was a common activity. But with the layoffs starting in 1989 planning disappeared for nearly a decade. Just as it would have restarted the dotcom mania struck. It wasn’t until about 2005 that management realized how important...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 9, 2020 | Analytics
There is no shortage of data in organizations these days. In fact, less than five percent of the mass of objective and subjective data generated will ever need to be used. The issue is now to optimize that five percent to transform it from raw data into business...
by Jac Fitzenz | Jan 2, 2020 | Analytics
Like me, you probably receive more magazines, free and paid for, than you can possibly read. If you took the time to do that you would either not have time to do any work or be overwhelmed by so many, often conflicting, prescriptions that you would be paralyzed. If,...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 26, 2019 | Analytics
There is a human tendency to think in generalizations; those types of people, children, senior citizens, men, women, dogs, cats and so forth. Within any group there is a great deal of variance. We often talk about employees as a single entity when we know well that...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 19, 2019 | Analytics
Analytics, and especially predictive analytics, arrived in the human capital market in 2007 and 2008. Still today, many people are uncertain as to just what analytics is about and how it can add value to managing.My view is that analytics is a meeting of arts and...
by Jac Fitzenz | Dec 12, 2019 | Analytics
Insight into the future is the greatest asset anyone can have. Consider how wealthy you would be if you had the ability to foresee future trends or events. If you foretold an event was it because you were lucky or wise? Luck comes in two forms: dumb luck and true...
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