title: Quantifiably Better: Delivering Human Resource (HR) Analytics from Start to Finish
author: Steve VanWieren
description: Your CEO just came to you, the HR leader, and said she was hearing rumors about the turnover rate going up. She asks you why this might be happening and how it is could be affecting the bottom line. Are there certain leadership issues? Are engagement levels changing? Is there a problem with the company culture? These are all logical questions. You have hunches for answers, but you have no way to prove those hunches. You know your CEO is going to want data to support any argument you make.You are sure that the answers to her questions are buried in the employee data collected in the different HR systems you have. You have been reading about HR analytics, and you wonder how you would answer her question differently if you really understood the data about your people.Quantifiably Better provides a path to follow in search of these answers. It will help you if you are just getting started with your HR analytics initiative, or if you are looking for ways to expand your existing HR analytics practice. In the end, you will find that the insights you desperately seek are easier to find than you ever imagined.
zlib_text: Human Capital 
  Trends 2012 
  Leap ahead
  
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  It’s fitting that 2012 is a leap year, since a number of converging market trends are driving HR organizations to make 
  significant leaps in capabilities and performance. HR faces a critical, dual imperative in 2012 — a focus on enabling both their 
  organization’s overall growth agenda and on driving efficiency in the business of HR. This dual focus demands decisive action 
  as the stakes are greater than ever. 
  Why the sense of urgency? Three reasons.
  •  Businesses are seeing light at the end of the economic tunnel, and CEOs are looking for every advantage they can find to 
  drive growth. Talent is a key enabler of growth, of course, but it can also be a stumbling block if not managed properly. 
  Especially in areas like salesforce effectiveness and building a leadership pipeline.
  •  Transformative technologies such as cloud, mobile, social, and advanced analytics are upending how work gets done, 
  though many organizations are not yet ready to ex