By Gene Pease
Vestrics is the leading provider of workforce optimization software and consulting services. Our approach helps companies big and small examine data, align human capital investments to business results and optimize those investments for improved success.
As Founder and CEO I am thrilled to announce the recent release of our second book Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments.
It is important for learning executives to get a deep dive into what human capital analytics can do for their department and overall organization. In this book, Vestrics introduces Optimization as learning evaluation Level 6.
Optimization is the holy grail of learning measurement. Predictive analytics answers the question: If we make changes, what will happen? Optimization allows one to determine what actions can be taken to generate the best future impact.
I wanted to share an excerpt from Chapter 9 – Optimization through Predictive Analytics.
"Many learning leaders will read this book with the aim of finding a return on investment (ROI) for their programs, allowing them to show their organizations just how important training is to business success. It’s a worthy goal and one we’re happy to support. ROI is sometimes criticized, not entirely fairly, for being a historical marker. It is not uncommon to find people, who look at ROI only in a backward fashion – they want to clarify the value of what they have done, rather than prepare for the next year’s work. It’s useful to know the outcome of past work so as not to repeat the same mistakes. By calculating an isolated ROI, you will be armed with powerful justification at budget time.
Stopping with ROI fails to capitalize on the ultimate benefit of strategic measurement, and this point we can’t stress enough. If you want to rise to the challenges presented by the changing workforce, you must embrace predictive analytics. This powerful data science will radically change the way you plan and deploy learning programs.
A blanket approach to learning programs will not equip your workforce to compete in today’s marketplace. Talent is the most important asset and competitive edge of the majority of contemporary organizations, which emphasizes the ever-growing importance of being able to develop that talent."
You have the opportunity to download Chapter 9 here to read more about predictive analytics and optimization. I invite you to visit www.vestrics.com to learn more about our work and to read our case studies.
Gene Pease is Founder and CEO at Vestrics.