“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, is arguably Edward Deming’s best-known quote. It is impossible to improve at managing people if you do not measure the results of your work. If you do not define what ‘good performance’ looks like and how you can measure it, how will you find out if…
At UNLEASH Amsterdam I had the pleasure of interviewing Amit Mohindra. Amit has a background in engineering and economics before becoming People Analytics lead at Apple. In this interview, we speak about people analytics nirvana, the importance of education, and the future of analytics. Enjoy! Erik van Vulpen: Hello everyone. I’m here with Amit Mohindra.…
At UNLEASH Amsterdam, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rainer Schlienkamp and Jasmin Wölke from the People Analytics team at Bosch. In the interview, we spoke about how to establish a data-driven mindset, skill management, and various other initiatives at Bosch. Erik: Welcome, everyone. We’re sitting here at UNLEASH and I’m here with Rainier and…
The question “what is HR analytics?” is asked by a lot of HR professionals who want to get started with people analytics. In this post, we will explain what HR analytics is and how it will shape businesses in the future. Introduction Of all the departments in an organization, the Human Resource (HR) department may…
In this short interview, Erik discusses the most important HR and HR analytics topics with the one and only “HR Curator”. Find out about the digital future of HR from the expert, Dave Millner! Transcription: Erik van Vulpen: Hello, and welcome to AIHR Live. I’m Erik van Vulpen, and with me is Dave Millner. Hi…
Christmas and the holidays are always a good time to look back and reflect on what has happened over the past year – and what a year it has been! In this article, I briefly want to look back at 2018 and take a glimpse ahead at 2019. I remember reading a hypothesis on why…
A lot of HR practitioners come into the field with a background in HRM studies or Industrial and organizational psychology. These studies rely heavily on teaching statistics to their students. As a student, it’s often hard to imagine why statistics are so important. Especially if you don’t want to become an academic researcher, statistics feels…
In most of our articles, we assume that our readers are working at large enterprises. However, we’re getting the question more and more whether people analytics also applies to small and medium enterprises. In this article, we will answer this question. Is People Analytics relevant for SMEs? To answer this question we should first take…
Employee performance metrics are key to tracking how well employees are performing. Implementing them the right way is tricky. However, when done right, employee performance metrics benefit both the organization and the employee. We listed the most important ones below and included some practical examples of each metric. There are various kinds of employee performance…
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Vlad Sterngold, director people analytics & research at Booking.com, an online booking travel platform with over 17,000 employees. Vlad and I spoke about the milestones of his people analytics journey at Booking.com. According to Vlad: “there are just many small steps and as long as…