Human Capital Metrics and Analytics: On the Way Toward Standardized Reporting

photo: Mark C. Ubelhart January 23, 2007

  Mark C. Ubelhart Hewitt Associates     Recently, Hewitt released the results of research showing the actual data by industry of gains and losses of pivotal employees (defined as Talent Quotient™) and also the impact gains and losses of

What have I learned from teaching Evidence-Based Management to undergraduate management students?

photo: James O’Brien November 15, 2006

  James O’Brien Asst. Professor, Human Resources Management and Organizational Studies Program Faculty of Social Science Univ. of Western Ontario   We’re just past the mid-way point in an upper-year undergraduate OB course. The other day, we were working on

Getting Direct with Data

photo: Webb McKinney November 8, 2006

  Webb McKinney Management Consultant Retired EVP, Hewlett Packard Co.     I worked at HP for 34 years, my first job was training the sales force on one of the first computer based measuring systems, and my last job

Danske Bank’s EBM Approach

photo: Lars Stensgaard Mørch November 1, 2006

  Lars Stensgaard Mørch Head of HR Member of the Executive Committee Danske Bank   The uniqueness of Danske Bank’s HR EBM approach is that we, at group level and in every business unit, get a firm empirical/data-based understanding of

Evidence-Based Management, Part II

photo: John Zanardelli October 18, 2006

  John Zanardelli, MPH, FACHE Exec. Director & CEO, United Methodist Services for the Aging; Adj. Assoc. Prof., Graduate School of Public Health, Univ. of Pittsburgh     Knowing about and understanding evidence based management (EBM) and actually applying EBM

Evidence-Based Management

photo: John Zanardelli October 9, 2006

  John Zanardelli, MPH, FACHE Exec. Director & CEO, United Methodist Services for the Aging; Adj. Assoc. Prof., Graduate School of Public Health, Univ. of Pittsburgh     Evidence based management (EBM) is appearing on the radar screen. An example

Evidence-Based War Stories

photo: Frank Domurad October 2, 2006

  Frank Domurad Vice-President The Carey Group, Inc.     The recent leaks of the classified National Intelligence Estimate on Global Terrorism have made one thing clear about the war in Iraq. Those who control the war stories in essence

At the Vanguard of Evidence-Based Management: It’s Time For Management to Grow Up

photo: Denise M. Rousseau September 4, 2006

  Denise M. Rousseau H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior & Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University     Today’s expert managers are those on the vanguard of Evidence-Based Management (EBM). They recognize what Peter Drucker