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• The Economist's Approach to Human Capital Metrics & Why HR is Getting it Wrong: You can use human capital analytics to predict organizational performance/outcomes and create a competitive advantage-- but only if you know how to use them. HR Today welcomes back Dr. Laurie Bassi, the noted economist who has created internationally recognized standards of metrics for organizational performance. listen now

  Tags:    human capital strategy | HR analytics | HR metrics 09/30/2011  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Improving Human Capital Decisions with Targeted Analytics: How do you know if your organization is making the right HR and human capital decisions? In order to measure and justify the efficiency of your company’s talent initiatives, there must be an analytics model in place to identify and eliminate any organizational gaps, problems or shortcomings. listen now

  Tags:    HR Metrics | analytics | Alec Levenson 05/13/2011  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Predicting the Future: How Metrics Can Show You What’s Really Going On: Human capital is your organization’s largest investment. Making accurate predictions instead of relying on intuition is paramount to your overall business. listen now

  Tags:    HR Metrics | Bradley Pearce 03/07/2011  12:00:00 AM EST

• HR Metrics and C-List Buy In: What's Keeping Your CEO Up at Night?: HR Departments are faced with decisions about which programs, initiatives and deliverables should be implemented almost on a daily basis. listen now

  Tags:    hr metrics | hr analytics | hr programs 02/14/2011  12:00:00 AM EST

• Retooling HR to Make Better Decisions About Talent: Since the publication of John Boudreau's groundbreaking book "Beyond HR" in 2007, Human Resources has rapidly progressed from instinctive decision making to an analytical discipline. listen now

  Tags:    HR metrics | talent management | John Boudreau 01/04/2011  12:00:00 AM EST

• Aligning Strategic HR Metrics to Overall Business Goals: The use of metrics is becoming more and more prevalent in validating HR's role through tangible measurements. But how can HR professionals ensure that not only are they at the table, but an instrumental member of the executive group in providing invaluable information used to drive business decisions? In this podcast interview with Human Resources IQ's Allan Hoving, Alec listen now

  Tags:    alignment 08/27/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• How Google Uses People Data to Influence People Decisions: Reliable data, trendable metrics, and accessible dashboards all help to establish credibility, but the true effectiveness of an analytics group is based on its ability to change opinions and influence decisions. listen now

  Tags:    Google | Brian Ong | HR Metrics 07/15/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Linking HR Initiatives to Business Outcomes: Many organizations collect data in order to establish where there are today, but to be really successful in the metrics space they must move to utilizing metrics to forecast the future state of the business in order to proactively drive business decisions. listen now

  Tags:    HR Metrics | Steven Woolwine | business outcomes 07/13/2010  12:00:00 AM EDT

• Running Training Like a Business: Delivering Unmistakable Value: Training is central to business success, and organizations world-wide have ramped up their investments in training and development to leverage return on investment. listen now

  Tags:    running training like a business | training | Ed Trolley 06/17/2009  12:00:00 AM EDT