Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness - Softcover

Levenson, Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459699351 ISBN 13: 9781459699359

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

One of the world's top experts on applying analytics to organizational performance provides a new, more comprehensive approach for using analytics to effectively guide business decisions.

About the Author

Alec Levenson is senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He has worked with a broad range of Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, including American Express, Amgen, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Exelon, Nestl?, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Bank of Canada, and Sinopec.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459699351
• ISBN 13: 9781459699359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350