As a trained researcher, I’ve always been fascinated with using quantitative methods to predict human behavior in a number of settings. Although different business functions such as finance, logistics, and marketing are more mature in their use of predictive analytics to guide their business…

Game of Thrones, season 5. Who’s excited? This girl. Cue the Game of Thrones theme song. I have to admit, I am a total Game of Thrones (GoT) fangirl. I’m waiting for HBO’s April 12th launch of season 5 with bated breath and I’m expecting it to live up to my expectations. I love the…

In today’s volatile and data-driven economy, employee knowledge is a hot commodity. Organizations need the best and brightest employees to maintain their competitive advantage. Though this trend affects all industries, this is even more significant in professional services, where they offer clients…

This interview is the last in a series on workforce predictive analytics. APQC interviewed Steve VanWieren, Principal Statistician and Data Scientist at Ultimate Software.  In this role, he focuses on building a predictive analytics function, working with executives across all lines of…

Despite accounting for half of the U.S. workforce, women only make up 19 percent of employees in the U.S. oil and gas and petrochemical industries, according to a 2014 study by the American Petroleum Institute (API). This is a problematic trend for oil and gas companies. Research has shown that a…

This interview is the second in a series on workforce predictive analytics. APQC interviewed John Callery, Director of People Analytics at AOL. In this role, he focuses on building a predictive analytics team to ensure talent-related decisions at AOL are driven by data and science. In this article…

In the U.S. and around the world, organizations both large and small are experiencing a competency crisis – an insufficient pool of entry-level management accounting and finance talent. Industry leaders are concerned about technical skills gaps as well as an increasing need for finance and…

This interview is the first in a series on workforce predictive analytics. APQC interviewed Scott Gillespie, co-founder and managing partner at tClara, an organization that delivers expertise in corporate travel and aviation. Gillespie is a pioneer in travel data analysis, strategic sourcing, and…

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all of the buzz about analytics and the importance of it for your HR function. Though it is a newer idea for HR, social and behavioral scientists have been using predictive models for years to predict the behavior of individuals and groups. Yet it is only a recent…

Analytics—it’s a topic that’s received a lot of attention and for good reason. Appropriate use of analytics or the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns and relationships in data can help businesses define, predict, and improve performance. In HR, workforce analytics can be applied to…