Billy Connolly once put it in one of his many sketches (to be read in Scottish accent) “ask a wildebeest whether it’s a wildebeest? Aye that’ll be right, I’m no a wildebeest, I’m one of those stripey things over there”. Much like the wildebeest, for me, people analytics sometimes struggles with an identity crisis. A […]
After a modest thumbs up from my dad on my last post on how we set the foundations for people analytics at Spotify, I’m now encouraged to share more on how we’ve created a consumer experience in connecting the business to data content that we know they want to view. It’s a tad cliché to […]
It’s rare for my parents to show more than a cursory interest in what I do for a job, other than “how’s work going?”. I’m almost certain that if asked by friends my mum would respond that I worked with computers, or that I’d decided to give music a go. So imagine my surprise when […]
What gets measured, gets managed. An old adage that often creates heated discussion. Debates aside, the point is that measuring something can give you the information you need in order to make sure you actually achieve what you set out to do. However, today’s businesses can be an elaborate labyrinth of different measurements – a […]
..but People Analytics do! We often hear the assumption that HR needs to become more data literate if the function is to advance and realise the potential that People Analytics has to offer. Whilst we don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment of this, what we do disagree with is how a large part of the […]