Advance Praise for The New HR Analytics
“Dr. Jac Fitz-enz and his associates have done it again! As the architect of the human capital movement, he has now defined and shaped predictive analytics that define more clearly how today’s metrics can predict and lead to tomorrow’s successes. The book both synthesizes and extends the measurement movement with outstanding essays where ideas are turned into action. HCM:21 will be the standard for how to go about scanning, planning, producing, and predicting organization processes in a predictive and rigorous way. Those of us who care about the HR profession are grateful that people like Fitz-enz continue to apply their knowledge to problems we care about.”
—Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group
“Dr. Jac Fitz-enz is always out on the leading edge of HR thought leaders. He’s done it again with The New HR Analytics. Anybody who aspires to advance an HR or total rewards career in the next decade should read this book!”
—Anne Ruddy, CCP, CPCU, President, WorldatWork
“The concept of managing people as an asset has been around for decades, but until now no one has been able to translate that compelling idea into real-world practice. Both HR professionals and line managers struggle all the time with ‘people management’ issues. Balancing the realities of getting today’s work done with the very real need to anticipate future needs has eluded managers since the beginning of time.
“This book changes all that. Dr. Jac Fitz-enz and an impressive group of practitioners and thought leaders have pulled together both a comprehensive Human Capital Management framework and a very practical set of action-oriented recommendations that together enable you to leverage the one thing that makes your organization truly unique: your human talent. HCM:21 is by far the most effective approach to strategic human resource management and human capital planning I’ve seen anywhere.”
—James P. Ware, Executive Producer, Work Design Collaborative LLC
“In a world where business intelligence as applied to human capital is on the verge of becoming as oxymoronic as ‘military intelligence,’ Dr. Jac Fitz-enz continues to provide the thought leadership businesses need now more than ever when it comes to human capital management. Too many businesses today confuse correlation with causation, and Dr. Jac’s four-phase human capital management system is a true antidote and the injection of innovation that businesses need to apply. As Dr. Jac succinctly puts it, there is nothing more powerful for a business than ‘managing tomorrow, today’ by properly applying analytics to its human capital.”
—Shyam Patel, COO, People Report
“Once again, Dr. Jac has led the way with critical research that enables organizations to create sustainable value through people.”
—Kent Barnett, CEO, KnowledgeAdvisors
“Once again, Jac Fitz-enz, aka Dr. Jac, has brought enlightenment to the enlightened. He’s evolved his body of work and the enormity of understanding of translating data, to information, to knowledge, to success.
“Jac’s latest endeavor has placed the question squarely before all decision makers, ‘How do we know what we know before we know it?’
“It’s part analytics, it’s part experience, it’s part intuition, it’s part good luck, and it’s all commitment. Commitment to demonstrating to decision makers throughout the organization that a thoughtful process, not usually linear in nature, always dynamic at the core, and entirely logical, can empower all of us to answer the questions, with insight and meaning, in a language that can be understood. Jac’s life’s passion has been to translate the simple but imminently elegant tools into a language not only that we can understand, but also that we can execute from.
“Predictive analytics is what we’ve been waiting for because it’s the next level of understanding in Dr. Jac’s long and evolving journey to empower us with the core tools, terminology, and logic to make a difference. The journey lives on!”
—Ed Kleinert, Administrator, HR Information Technology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
“In The New HR Analytics, Jac Fitz-enz extends his decades of leadership in human capital measurement. It is a call to action that should inspire leaders to rethink their assumptions and improve their decisions.”
—John Boudreau, Professor, Management & Organization, and Research Director, Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California .
“The New HR Analytics is the breakthrough people management playbook that will transform how CEOs manage their human capital and their human resource function going forward. The HCM:21 model introduces leading-edge predictive techniques that maximize return on human capital investments while energizing and engaging employees. Organizations that ignore The New HR Analytics and Dr. Jac’s HCM:21 system for predictive HR management are doomed to fail in the resurging economy. Hucametrics has reached the tipping point.”
—Ken Scarlett, President, Scarlett Surveys International .
“Everybody knows that Jac Fitz-enz is acknowledged as the father of human capital strategic analysis and human performance benchmarking. For me he is also much more. He is a powerful lighthouse who lights the long way from the old human resources department to the new human capital strategic partner. A book by Dr. Jac is always an important milestone in human capital history.”
—Luis María Cravino, Cofounder and Codirector, AO Consulting S.A., Buenos Aires .
“Dr. Jac is the pinnacle of vision and leadership in human capital analytics. This book paves the way for the next wave in the field.”
—Kirk Smith, Founder, W. Kirk Smith & Associates .
“Dr. Jac’s landmark book contains leading-edge human capital thinking and tools that will enable organizations to maximize operational impact by optimizing their investment in human capital.”
—John Matone, Vice President, AlignMark