Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction: The New Science of Winning

by Thomas H. Davenport

One manufacturing company we interviewed, for example, has developed a “talent management index” from four proprietary measures, and it uses the index to evaluate how each organizational unit manages its investments in human capital.

using predictive analytics to find ways to improve its managerial performance, recruiting, retention,

three reasons they stay: the mission, the quality of the people, and the chance to build the skill set of a better leader or entrepreneur. And all our analytics are built around these reasons.”