(The Conference Board: New York) -- Today, corporations are embracing and analyzing “big data” to transform business and industries and spur innovation. Despite the plethora of data gathered during the past two decades, human resources functions have made little progress in using these data to help provide insights critical to making strategic decisions. According to a new report from The Conference Board, “Human Capital Analytics: A Primer,” it is not only critical for HR departments to embrace analytics, but to move analytics from beyond analyzing what happened or what is happening to predicting and prescribing solutions that align with enterprise-wide goals.

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