I believe 2017 was a breakthrough year for people analytics. The last 12 months has seen the discipline move from the periphery towards the centre of the HR function.
This doesn’t mean that people analytics has yet crossed the chasm of widespread adoption. The champagne remains on ice. Nevertheless, the acknowledgement that people analytics is a core component of a digital HR strategy is becoming more widely acknowledged.
Consequently interest levels in analytics continue to soar. The number of conferences on the subject has tripled in the last 18 months. Adoption levels are rising too - albeit at a more sedate trajectory. The penny seems to have dropped with executives too with Josh Bersin recently writing that “CEOs and CHROs now understand that people analytics is a vital part of running a high performing company.”
For the last four years I have collated and published a compendium of the ‘best’ articles of the preceding 12 months – see 2014, 2015 and 2016, and following are my choices for the best 40 articles of 2017.
With a couple of notable exceptions, all of the articles listed are freely available to read. Most of my choices featured in my bi-monthly round-ups, but my human fallibility means that I missed a few gems. I hope I have redressed that here.
Thank you to all the authors included. Collectively, you are helping push the discipline forward through inspiring the growing number of people interested in people analytics and data-driven HR.
To read the full blog and see the 40 articles that were selected, you can read The 40 best people analytics articles of 2017 on LinkedIn.