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18 Benefits of HR Analytics For Your Business [With Examples]

AIHR

One example of this is when PNC bank’s HR team used HR analytics to better understand the risk of their incentive plans. They found that training shop personnel positively impacted the shop’s financial performance, which they measured through A/B testing. The ROI of their training program was 400% in the first year.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

I often like people who are former founders, or from product management or marketing who started their careers in banking/consulting. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), It helps if they show a deep quantitative interest in business.

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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

A/B testing is very much part of the culture of Silicon Valley web start-ups, but hasn't yet made its way to corporate America. Imagine you're a bank approached for a loan by an employee of AIG. For the CDO, this would mean ensuring that processes are being instrumented and that all necessary data is being captured and stored.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

A switch decides who can access new software depending on its status, such as “hidden” (nobody sees it), “test” (only internal testers), “beta” (selected external testers), and “unveil” (everyone sees it).

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What Retail Can Teach Health Care About Digital Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. When formal research trials aren’t practical, providers will need to embrace A/B testing and learn to more rapidly evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of these technologies.

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Managing Ebola Will Take Powerful Communication

Harvard Business Review

In India, the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population department has seen a positive impact from the use of folk media in combatting leprosy in rural and illiterate populations. But creating such stories takes time  more time than crafting a Facebook campaign or A/B testing different messages on Twitter.

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