Calculating Success

　　This title helps us in using analytics to make more effectivetalent management decisions. Most managers understand thatemployees can make or break a company's strategy. You can have thebest ideas and the most promising plan, but if you don't have theright people to carry it out, that plan will fail. Still, despitehaving this critical knowledge, most companies don't have adata-driven approach to the decisions they make about talent. Infact, a recent IBM study that interviewed over 400 senior HRexecutives showed that only 6 per cent of companies believe theycan effectively use human capital data to make strategic workforcedecisions. Enter "Calculating Success", the forthcoming book byhuman capital experts Carl Hoffmann, Eric Lesser, and Tim Ringo.Based on decades of experience creating human capital systems atIBM, the authors show how using analytics can dramatically improvea company's ability to make better and faster talent decisions. Byorganizing the book around four crucial questions managers mustask, the book provides a framework to help executives rethink howthey use information on talent. The result? A path to usinganalytics to make more effective talent management decisions. Inaddition, the authors' ideas help to link HR with all levels of theorganization in a strategic way, by showing readers how to connecttheir version of analytics to the strategic mission of the largerorganization, so that the analytics flows throughout theenterprise. With detailed examples and studies from IBM's Institutefor Business Value and Human Capital Management practice, this bookwill make you rethink the relationship of talent to businesssuccess. The results allow for a more stable and cost-effectiveworkforce, an improved ability to motivate employees, and a moresystematic approach to developing critical talent.

　　Advance Praise for "Calculating Success" "Hiring and managingpeople based on science is the new way to be successful. This isthe clearest and most comprehensive book on workforce analytics.Read it, act on it, and optimize your most importantresource."--Thomas H. Davenport, President's DistinguishedProfessor, Babson College; coauthor of "Competing on Analytics" and"Analytics at Work" "The insights and practical approach espousedin this book make it a great tool for those wishing to revitalizeorganizations." --Richard Taylor, Director and Vice President, HR,Intel Corporation "