Episode 6: State of the Industry — The Possibilities & Pitfalls of People Analytics

Episode Description

This week we welcome Brad Markis to the podcast. Brad is an Instructor of People Analytics at the University of Toronto and a Director at McLean & Company.

Topics include: why Fortune 500 organizations struggle to deploy sophisticated HR analytics programs, the importance of using business outcomes to guide your HR analytics strategy, why dashboards have exploded in popularity in recent years, the ways in which chatbots are under leveraged within HR teams, why HR often lags behind other departments in its analytic education and prowess, how AI/machine learning has caused many organizations to overlook time-tested analytic models and approaches, recommended starting points for organizations interested in “resetting” their people analytics strategies, and how to select a framework to bridge the gap between analytic strategy and tactical execution.