More Praise for Strategic Analytics
“Levenson breaks analysis down into a step-by-step process—showing how to capture data and truly implement analytics in organizations, creating capabilities that drive strategy execution and, ultimately, competitive advantage. A must-read for HR professionals who want to build strategic partnerships and drive game-changing results.”
—Mike Johnson, Chief Human Resources Officer, UPS
“Informed business and HR leaders know how important it is to connect business and talent outcomes. They appreciate the need for art and science but rarely have the methodology or tools to make the science real. Strategic Analytics helps solve this problem, providing insight on applying big data and analytics to unlock value for leaders and for organizations.”
—Scott Pitasky, Executive Vice President and Chief Partner Resource Officer, Starbucks
“Strategic Analytics addresses one of the key complaints about HR today—that the function is not aligned with driving the business strategy. Levenson gives a step-by-step approach for leveraging analytics to identify the right levers to drive business strategy and organizational effectiveness. The book is both comprehensive and pragmatic, with thoughtful examples to help HR and business leaders alike.”
—Tracy Faber, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, McKesson
“A real breakthrough. Strategic Analytics is a must-read for line and human resource executives who strive to make their organization and human resource system a source of strategic advantage. The systemic framework for rigorous diagnosis of organization alignment problems will help executives avoid simple but wrong responses that undermine effective strategy execution.”
—Michael Beer, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School, and cofounder of TruePoint
“Levenson offers a highly useful framework for sharpening the focus of analytics within large, complex organizations. This book cuts through much of the hype surrounding the topic with a pragmatic review of methods that will generate actionable insights within an enterprise. Strategic Analytics should redirect efforts that often generate large quantities of data without really impacting business results.”
—Alan May, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
“Do you ever feel like you have all the data in the world but still don’t know how to use it or you’re not sure which analytics to use? So many practitioners don’t solve their organizational issues because analytics without strategy are useless, or their strategies aren’t aligned organizationally so the analytics don’t matter. In this essential book, Levenson provides meaningful, actionable insights for business leaders and HR practitioners to align strategies and priorities to improve organizational effectiveness and drive bottom-line results.”
—Kim Warmbier, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Dean Foods
“Strategic Analytics is the book we have been waiting for. Levenson provides a road map to analyze performance gaps in strategy execution and the causal linkage with how the organization is designed and managed. He shows the role high-performance work design plays in strategy execution, which is the key design area in the new digital modern organization. This book puts all the pieces together to provide a clear analytic approach to improve organizational effectiveness.”
—Stu Winby, CEO, SPRING Network
“Getting people and practices aligned to achieve strategy is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in modern management, often made worse by conflicting messages coming from workplace metrics and overall business metrics. Strategic Analytics offers practical advice on how to straighten out those different measures. New and much-needed guidance for getting strategy execution right.”
—Peter Cappelli, Director, Center for Human Resources, Wharton School of Business
“Strategic Analytics is a great road map for the journey from big data and big confusion to focused and practical sense—making sense through better business insights. Levenson provides a user-friendly approach for what to analyze, why to analyze it, and how to make more powerful business decisions as a result.”
—Ian Ziskin, President, EXec EXcel Group LLC, and former Chief Human Resources Officer, Northrop Grumman
“Levenson nails the essence of successful analytics work with the statement that ‘effective analytics is a team sport.’ Up to now, analysis in organizations has been a suboptimized, multiheaded monster with each head eating alone. Strategic Analytics shows how to effectively use a holistic integrated approach.”
—Jac Fitz-enz, CEO Human Capital Source