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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. The goal of the HR initiative was to use data analytics to inform hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions.

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LSA Global Delivers Supervisor Excellence Training for Technical Operations

LSA Global

Based upon data form our people manager assessment center , they knew that being a successful supervisor required a combination of technical and interpersonal skills that drove ownership and accountability for the success of th eir team. 96% Job Relevance 96.2% Learn more about getting aligned.

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Data Science is now a quickly growing discipline , giving people with any kind of data expertise a serious competitive edge. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

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How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business

Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 For them, a dedicated, in-house team of data specialists can be a necessity.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. One theme with organizations that are resilient amid change is sharing data with decision-makers openly. In God we trust, others must have data.” — Ronald D. effectively shared to enable decision-making.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. They pay way too much attention to shareholders, numbers, and data and not enough to the power of people. Consider GM as a case study. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Strategic Thinking Leadership Competency #4: Making Common Sense An intellectual process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating data. Collaborative open strategic planning: A method and case study. Organizational Talent Consulting. References: Amrollahi, A., &