Strategic analytics : advancing strategy execution and organizational effectiveness / Alec Levenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levenson, Alec, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Management--Statistical methods.

Management.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2015.

Summary:

More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations--and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist and research scientist Alec Levenson says we need a new approach. The problem, Levenson says, is that the business people who devise the strategies and the human resources people who get employees to implement them use completely different analytics. Business analytics can determine if operational priorities aren't being achieved but can't explain why. HR analytics reveal potentially helpful policy and process improvements but can't identify which would have the greatest strategic impact. This book shows how to use an integrated approach to bring these two pieces together. Levenson presents a thorough and realistic treatment of the reasons for and challenges of taking an integrated approach. He provides details on the different parts of both enterprise and human capital analytics that have to be conducted for integration to be successful and includes specific questions to ask, along with examples of applying integrated analytics to address particular organizational challenges. Effective analytics is a team sport. Levenson's approach allows you to get the deepest insights by bringing people together from both the business and HR perspectives to assess what's going on and determine the right solution.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction Integrating Enterprise and Human Capital Analytics

Part I: Why Do Strategic Analytics

Chapter 1 Of Elephants and Incomplete Analysis

Chapter 2 Beware the ROI Bogeyman and Other Monsters under the Bed

Part II: How to Do Strategic Analytics

Chapter 3 Put the Horse in Front of the Cart- Where to Focus the Analysis

Chapter 4 Step 1-Competitive Advantage Analytics

Chapter 5 Step 2-Enterprise Analytics

Chapter 6 Step 3-Human Capital Analytics

Chapter 7 Putting It All Together

Chapter 8 Application-Customer Retention and Profitable Growth

Chapter 9 Application-Go-to-Market Strategies and Effectiveness

Part III: Diving Deeper: How to Make Current Practice Better

Chapter 10 Critical Roles, Competencies, and Performance

Chapter 11 Making Sense of Sensing Data

Chapter 12 Evaluating Human Capital Development: Build versus Buy versus Redesign

Conclusion: Key Learning and Action Points

References

Appendix: Strategic Analytics Diagnostic Interview Template

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 31, 2018).

ISBN:

9781626560567

1626560560

OCLC:

927145201