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Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments (Wiley and SAS Business Series) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
Collectively, your workers are your company's most important and most valuable asset. To make the most of this asset, nothing beats quantitative performance and investment measurement. Learning and Development is an 80 billion-dollar industry, and every valuable employee represents a sizable investment on the part of your company. To keep your business moving forward, effective management of human capital is crucial. It generates plenty of data, and deep analysis of this data helps you provide feedback and make adjustments to capitalize on the combined knowledge, skills, and creativity of your workers. Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments provides a guidebook for collecting, organizing, and analyzing the data surrounding human capital so you can make the most of your employees' potential.
- Use predictive analysis to optimize human capital investments
- Learn effective study design and alignment
- Get the tools you need for measurement, surveys, and analysis
- Decide what to measure and how to measure it
- Outline your company's current and future analytics technology needs
- Map data sources, and overcome barriers to data collection
Authors Gene Pease, Bonnie Beresford, and Lew Walker provide case studies in which major companies applied human capital analytics to guide people decisions, and expand upon the role of analytics in Learning and Development. Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments is an essential guide to 21st century human resources and management practices, and can keep you from squandering your company's most valuable resource.
- ISBN-13978-1118753507
- Edition1st
- PublisherWiley
- Publication dateJune 20, 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- File size6857 KB
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In some ways, it’s surprising that learning and development (L&D) is such a large and fast-growing industry―to the tune of around $80 billion. We no longer live in an era of lifelong employee loyalty, so why are the most successful companies, from Defense Acquisition University to Pfizer, still spending so much on L&D? They know how to measure the business benefit of L&D spending. Using case studies from these and other top firms, Gene Pease, Bonnie Beresford, and Lew Walker walk you through how to ensure that your human capital dollars are well spent.
Developing Human Capital is one of the first works to explore learning and development from a data-driven, analytical standpoint. This text is remarkably comprehensive, explaining study design and alignment, measurement tools, and future analytics strategy. If you have no idea what to measure or how to measure it, this book is the perfect resource. Maybe you’ve been “building the business case” for training and other development for years, but without quantitative measurement, the business case is just marketing. This book explains why now is the time to develop a measurement strategy for your firm’s L&D investments.
To anyone in the HR or learning and development fields, it will come as no surprise that technology is central to developing human capital. Computer-based learning modalities, analytic software, and an overwhelming surplus of data are part of the new reality. The authors incisively add the generational shift and changing workplace to this mix, and the result is an enormous opportunity to gather information that will drive better human capital decisions. And by now it is so well known that it hardly bears repeating: in the 21st century, optimized human capital investment is the permanent home of competitive advantage.
From the Back Cover
Quantify and predict the true business benefit of learning and development
For decades, human resource management was more of an art than a science. Now, Developing Human Capital is guiding the transition to “big data.” In today’s business environment, human capital is the golden ticket to competitive success, and we now have access to mountains of data to help make the right decisions to build performance. It’s time to quantify the impact of learning and development investment. In this excellent addition to the respected Wiley & SAS Business Series, you’ll learn what to measure, when to measure it, and what to do with the data once you have it.
This book shows that human capital analytics really works. Short case studies from heavy hitters across industries show how businesses are already going beyond ROI to measure the real impact of L&D investments. As you read through Developing Human Capital, you’ll acquire the knowledge you need to build a measurement plan and align it with strategic goals. Using advanced analytics tools, you’ll be able to dig down to the hard evidence that supports those crucial L&D expenditures.
You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again: predictive analytics and big data are the future of business. Why should human capital be any exception? It is now possible to measure nearly all aspects of the learning process. With the tools in Developing Human Capital, you can create a map to maximized potential for every employee. Read this book to learn the language of tech-driven, data-driven analytics, and translate that language into better human capital investments.
About the Author
GENE PEASE is the founder and CEO of Vestrics (a Capital Analytics Company), the leading provider of workforce optimization software and consulting services. The firm has been recognized with awards from Bersin and Associates, CLO Magazine, CIO Review Magazine, Gartner, and the ROI Institute.
BONNIE BERESFORD, PHD, is the Director of Performance Strategy and Design at AMCI Global. While Vice President at Capital Analytics, Beresford’s work has earned her clients three CLO Magazine - Business Impact awards.
LEW WALKER, SPHR, is the Vice President of Human Resources at AT&T. He serves on the Editorial Board of CLO Magazine and is a frequent conference speaker.
Product details
- ASIN : B00JUUZRNQ
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (June 20, 2014)
- Publication date : June 20, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 6857 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 310 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,881,444 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,270 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Kindle Store)
- #3,149 in Business Decision-Making
- #5,146 in Business Decision Making
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About the authors
As Co-Founder and CEO, Gene brings a seasoned business perspective to Capital Analytics, helping to translate our breakthrough statistical methodology into services that bridge the gap between people investments and business results. Gene is the co-author of Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization’s Greatest Asset, featured in the Wiley and SAS Business Series. Gene is a sought-after thought leader and presenter and is regularly on the speaking docket at industry events. Recently he presented at CFO Core Concerns Conference, The Conference Board Human Capital Metrics Conference, and ASTD’s Day of Learning.
Gene has more than 25 years of experience as a CEO. Under his leadership, Capital Analytics has been recognized by Bersin and Associates as a 2012 Bersin Learning Leader, by Gartner as a “On the Rise Vendor” and in the 2009 and 2011 Hype Cycle for Human Capital Management and by the ROI Institute as having the Best Innovative Approach to ROI. Capital Analytics has helped clients such as National Grid, ConAgra Foods and Chrysler win CLO Learning in Practice awards in the Business Impact category.
Gene earned his MBA with honors in Entrepreneur and Venture Management from the University of Southern California. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. Gene currently holds a town council position with the city of Chapel Hill, located in North Carolina.
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