Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Softcover

Alec Levenson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626560552 ISBN 13: 9781626560550

Publisher: EDS Publications Ltd. (Consignment), 2015

Synopsis

There are tons of books on how to do strategy execution better, but they all operate from the premise that their one-size-fits-all solution works for what ails all companies. But each company's context and problems are unique. You need analytics to diagnose where improvements really need to be made, but existing approaches don't give you the full picture. Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, Alec Levenson provides a road map for doing diagnostics that will lead to actionable insights and solutions.

Levenson's model, combines the enterprise (or organization-level) approach to analytics and the human capital (or job-level) approach. This solves two parallel problems in organizations today: senior leaders pay too little attention to the practical challenges of implementing the business strategy and setting goals for achieving it, and front line managers and HR too often focus on narrow improvements to jobs and processes that appear to be useful yet have little strategic value. The book provides an in-depth critique of common measurement approaches and, through case studies and real-world examples, shows how to apply the model to increasing customer retention, spurring innovation, developing go-to-market strategies, making budgeting and investment decisions, and more.

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Strategic Analytics

Review

Too many senior executives and HR professionals hide behind a lack of data or incorrectly use data as an absolute decision maker. Strategic Analytics provides a straightforward approach to analyze the right areas to achieve long term impact.
--Jeff Joerres, Executive Chairman, ManpowerGroup

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 H.R. professionals who want to build strategic partnerships and drive game changing results.
--Michael 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

In this fascinating book, Dr. Levenson shows how leaders can make fast and accurate decisions in a world that is ever more complex, addressing the half-truths and unsubstantiated claims that abound in many corporations. A must read for anyone determined to improve their decision making.
--Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

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

Strategic Analytics starts in the right place - winning in the marketplace - and assesses integrated solutions that will outlast individuals. A wonderful book of useful frameworks and tools.
--Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan, and partner, The RBL Group

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 Co-founder TruePoint

Levenson offers a highly useful framework for sharpening the focus of data 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 commonly seen today 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, actionabl --Jac Fitz-enz, CEO Human Capital Source

Edition details

• Publisher: EDS Publications Ltd. (Consignment)
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1626560552
• ISBN 13: 9781626560550
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240