Definitive Guide to People Analytics

The Definitive Guide to People Analytics: The Journey to Systemic Business Analytics

The Definitive Guide to People Analytics: The Journey to Systemic Business Analytics

Companies have more data than ever, but, in many cases, leveraging it to make informed talent and strategic business decisions proves challenging. Between ever-changing tech stacks, constrained analytics teams, and disparate data sources, it’s an uphill climb to a comprehensive approach to data analytics. 

How do leaders and data analysts achieve greater maturity in their people analytics practices while navigating all this complexity? The Definitive Guide to People Analytics: The Journey to Systemic Business Analytics answers this question and provides actionable strategic guidance that organizations can use at all stages of their people analytics journey. Download the infographic and executive summary to learn more: 


Josh Bersin Company experts have studied this domain for over twenty years, and this most recent research highlights that an important step is to consider what data exists across the business and reimagine how to use it.  

Our study conducted with thought-leader partner Visier found that the highest-performing people analytics teams take a business-centric, holistic approach combined with a pragmatic focus on driving actions and achieving systemic business analytics. Organizations with the highest level of maturity in their analytics approaches enable impressive outcomes for the business and are:  

  • 3x more likely to exceed financial targets
  • 8x more likely to accomplish high levels of workforce productivity
  • 9x more likely to adapt to better to change
  • 7x more likely to innovate effectively 

Systemic business analytics allows companies to move from reactive reporting to proactive problem-solving. It integrates people, operational, work, and sales data and leverages AI-powered analytics technology to democratize insights from that data, making them accessible across the organization. In this approach to analytics, companies adopt a pragmatic approach that fosters a data culture, promotes action-taking, and continuously grows analytics capabilities to create outcomes in all business areas.

The Definitive Guide to People Analytics, available to Corporate Members, includes:  

  • Detailed study findings and recommended strategies for achieving systemic business analytics within your organization,
  • Examination of the four levels of maturity in people analytics,
  • Robust explanations of the current state of people analytics and the study’s six key findings,
  • Case studies of global and multi-national companies that have achieved systemic business analytics and
  • …more.  

Hear critical details about the research from authors Stella Ioannidou, Research Senior Director, and Kathi Enderes, SVP of Research and global industry analyst:  

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