People analytics: Deciding what to measure

Author: Graham Brown

Contributing author: Sarah Thompson

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses how HR teams can use people analytics to generate insights and inform business decisions. In this guide we discuss how to identify the metrics you need to obtain to inform the business challenge being addressed with people analytics.

Other guides in the series:

• People analytics: The core elements
• People analytics: Readying the HR function for people analytics
• People analytics: Identifying the objectives of the project
• People analytics: Collecting data
• People analytics: Analysing the data
• People analytics: Communicating and acting on the findings
• People analytics: Measuring success
• People analytics: Data protection