Calculating Success How the New Workplace Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization

"A roadmap for organizations to achieve the promise of analytics and upgrade their most valuable asset: their people... Turning data into information and knowledge is hard work. The guidance in "Calculating Success" can help focus that effort." -- "Interfaces" (The "INFORMS" Journal on the Practice of Operations Research) ..".this is an interesting, if demanding read and I admire the authors for their insistence that there is more measurable value inside an organisation then meets the eye--if it is sought out and quantified." - Business Traveler (businesstraveller.com) ADVANCE PRAISE for "Calculating Success" "Hiring and managing people based on science is the new way to be successful. This is the clearest and most comprehensive book on workforce analytics. Read it, act on it, and optimize your most important resource."
--Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor, Babson College; coauthor of "Competing on Analytics" and "Analytics at Work" "The insights and practical approach espoused in this book make it a great tool for those wishing to revitalize organizations."
--Richard Taylor, Director and Vice President, HR, Intel Corporation "The authors insightfully remind us that workplace analytics must begin with thoughtful analysis. Their six-step workforce analytics process requires clear definition of business problems and development of a conceptual model to guide the analysis, and they do a masterful job demonstrating its impact on multiple workforce problems. Anyone interested in workforce analysis will find this work insightful and helpful."
--Dave Ulrich
Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; bestselling author of "The Why of Work" "What do we need to know about our workforce to run the company more effectively, and how do we turn that knowledge into action? Following the six-step framework in "Calculating Success" will enable general managers everywhere to address those cr