Some pictures do not require many words… I think this one speaks for itself.
There are many HR events in August, but this is the only one you will find so many top though leaders. It is an honor to be among them.
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Help Me Pick an HR Analytics Topic…
I need your help. I am submitting a proposal to speak at an upcoming HR event being put on by my good friends at Ariva and need help determining which one sounds like the most interesting topic.
Option 1: Insightful HR: Integrating Quality Data towards Better Decisions
Most HR teams are surrounded by an almost limitless wealth of information locked inside business data. However, very few HR teams are consistently able to identify the right data at the right time and even fewer are able to integrate high quality data into the strategic decision-making process. The keys to data-driven decision-making are finding the right balance of analytics Talent, Technique and Technology. I will share a few of tips on how to align the 3 T’s in your business so that HR is able to empower data-driven decision making across the organization. For most HR teams, having good data is the easy part, distilling actionable insights is what makes all the difference
Learning Session Outline:
- Learn how to Identify the right data
- Discuss how to Inventory the data to gain actionable insights
- Discover how to Integrate the data insights into HR decision-making
- Unlock the analytics Talent needed for cutting edge HR Analytics
- Reveal key analytics Techniques to analyze the data
- Master the appropriate analytics Technology to optimize HR decision-making
Option 2: Driving Workforce Performance using Balanced Score Card Metrics and Analytics
Balanced Score Cards have been around since the 1990’s. HR teams across the globe have spent millions in trying to perfect ways to positively drive workforce performance based on metrics. So why is this still a topic of interest? Well, in most cases, it is because score cards and the metrics they report keep pointing us problems that are just not going away. Rising attrition, rampant job-hopping, and lower productivity are challenges we are all dealing with. In many cases, though the problem is not what we are reporting with our scorecards but the data we are populating them. As a whole, we are relying on metrics of the past to describe to us how we got here. What we need though is metrics of the future that accurately predict where we are going. I will share with you several of the metrics of the future I use for workforce reporting in my business and how we employ Predictive HR Analytics to optimize our scorecards.
Learning Session Outline:
- Discuss HR Metrics of the Past
- Learn about HR Metrics of the Future
- Discover how to use HR Predictive Analytics
- Design a Data-Driven Scorecard Template
Option 3: Strategic Problem-solving for Better Decision-making: Analytical and Critical Thinking in Motion
One of the biggest strategic challenges facing HR teams is transforming Big Data into actionable insights. The speed in which decision-makers need to act can often preclude the deep understanding of what value actual lies in the data. This causes misguided strategic planning and under informed decision-making across an organization. The best strategic solutions to quicker and more accurate decisions are found in a well rounded HR analytics approach. One that empowers critical thinking not just from the top, but down the ranks. Business Dashboards and Data Storytelling are two tools that should be used to quickly enable quick decisions in real time. I will show you how HR teams are able to keep one eye on strategic problem-solving while still taking care of daily challenges as they pop up.
Learning Session Outline:
- Discuss the challenges of HR Big Data
- Share HR Strategic Planning best practices
- Learn how to get Real Time HR Data
- Design HR Tactical Implementations using Analytics
- Align HR with Organization-wide Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Let me know what you think asap!
Thanks!
HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.
Decision-Making with Data Learning Session with Ariva Events
This coming Friday, March 31, in Ortigas, I will be Data-Driven Decision-Making for Executives, Managers and Leaders. I will focus on proven strategies of data mastery go a long way to becoming a Data-Driven Leader.
This master class is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your companies decision-making processes.
Information is supposed to make decision-making faster and easier, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms our ability to accurately use the data we have in our business.
The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, exeuctives, managers and leaders must consider the practical side of big data and how best to use it to make better decisions…because what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions. Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge.
The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it. This learning session is specifically designed for executives, managers and leaders to learn techniqeues that will ensure reliable business decisions can be made based on the massive amounts of data at your fingertips.
Through a series of case studies, exercises and interactive lecture, we will cover the following:
- Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
- Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
- How to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
- A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy
Attendees will also be able to learn how to do the following things for their team:
- Learn the best practices for organizing, summarizing, and interpreting quantitative data
- Create a repeatable process for analyzing your data
- Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
- Identify and explain tools for data analysis
- Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
- Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions
There are still seats available, contact me at danmeyer@dmaiph.com so I can connect with you my events partner, Ariva.
HR & Recruitment Analytics: Getting “IT”
HR Data is integral to the success of business strategy.
HR Data Analysis can drive decision-making and not just align, but shape business strategy.
HR Data and Analysis that uses Data Visualization and feeds Business Dashboards is enchanting to decision-makers.
When you have IT in your HR Analytics process you are enchanting. That should be your goal.
So how how exactly do you align your HR data to the business strategy.
- Have the 3 T’s (talent, tech and technique)
- Use the 3 I’s (identify, inventory and integrate)
- Make Friends
- Think Outside the HR Box
- Keep Your Data Lake Clean
- Share Your Data and Analysis
- Visualize and Enchant
HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.
Dan Meyer – Speaker Bio
My updated speaker bio… I have several speaking and training events lined up in 2017. There is nothing I love more then being in front of a room full of people hungry to learn more about analytics!
Daniel Meyer is President & Founder of DMAIPH (Decision-Making, Analytics & Intelligence Philippines), an analytics, consulting, training and outsourcing company with offices in Manila and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr. Meyer is one of the top analytics experts in the Philippines. With a team of over 40 analysts, DMAIPH provides a variety of analytics solutions to companies in the U.S. and Asia. Mr. Meyer is also one of the most sought after public speakers in the country and has personally trained thousands of Filipinos in various analytics functions.
Before setting up his own company, Mr. Meyer worked as a Senior Analytics Consultant for Wells Fargo Bank for 15 years. Mr. Meyer provided executive management analytics for the bank’s Remittance Service including developing business dashboards, overseeing competitive intelligence gathering, managing data analytics outsourcing projects and facilitating audit and risk management.
Mr. Meyer recently published Putting Your Data to Work, an analytics guidebook designed to provide organizations with a solid foundation in using analytics to empower more data-driven decisions.
Mr. Meyer earned a B.A. in History with a minor in International Studies from Sonoma State University and a M.A. in Education with a focus on Student Affairs in Higher Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.
Big Data Analytics > The Art of Presenting Big Data
It has been my experience that presenting Big Data requires quite a bit of artistic ability.
I will be talk about the Art of Presenting Big Data among other topics at an event this coming February 21 in Ortigas.
For me there is a clear need to Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly . This process has 3 parts.
- Selecting the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience
- Mastering the Power of Enchantment
- Sharing Findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions Within Your Organization
Knowing How to Select the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience is where we will stat.
To that end I have a checklist I use before every presentation I share involving Big Data:
- Know Your Audience
- Consider Time Constraints
- How Will The Data Be Consumed?
- Can The Data and Analysis Be Accessed?
- Make it Interactive
DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.
Philippines Analytics Review – 2016
There is no doubt that analytics is now a big deal in the Philippines.
Now that 2016 is in the books, I can proudly say I spent the better part of the past year helping Filipino get more analytics in their businesses.
My primary goal for the year has been meet, so let’s recap how that happened…
My involvement in empower Filipino companies, students and professionals to make data-driven decisions has renewed my passion for being a top name brand for analytics in the Philippines.
As I think back the Recruitment Analytics training that DMAIPH and Sonic Analytics put on early in the year, I think about how HR professionals are now actively looking to get more analytics in their business.
The simple fact is there are more white collar, professional staff jobs out there then there are qualified candidates. And its only getting worse. Recruitment Analytics is the only way to stay on the cutting edge.
This was even more evident when I spoke in front of close to 100 HR professionals at a workshop called HR & Recruitment Analytics Techniques put on by my good friends at Ariva Events Management.
We spent the day talking about how get IT when it comes to recruitment. The 3 I’s of analytics; identify, inventory and integrate data as well as the 3 T’s; talent, technology and technique needed to make sense to the data.
I once again joined Ariva for their annual Philippines HR Congress. One of the central themes of the conference attended by over 1000 HR professionals was Aligning HR Strategy with Analytics.
HR teams are sitting on a gold mine of insightful data, but in most cases have not been able to take advantage of it.
Big Data Analytics has come so fast and furious, that it takes a lot of effort to become analytics champions and try and move a company culture towards more data-driven decision-making. This was top of mind for all the attendees.
At the same time I have been doing speaking and public training, CHED has been training teachers on how to teach business analytics. Their efforts to explain the Fundamentals of Business Analytics to faculty and students will go a long way in making the Philippines a significant analytics hub.
I have been honored to have helped several schools in adding my two centavos to the discussion about analytics careers for fresh grads.
Another moment of great personal pride came when I published my newest book, Putting Your Data to Work. This guidebook is designed to help Filipino professionals who aren’t too familiar with analytics, get started.
In early November, I was part of a panel discussion at the Big Data Conference at Enduran college. I was and still am super excited about the topic, The Future of Big Data Analytics in the Philippines. This is my passion, turning students and young professionals interested in analytics on to the huge opportunity they have in front of them.
A week later I conducted a Data Analytics seminar with DMAIPH and Sonic Analytics. The primary goal here was to demonstrate how having a thorough understanding of the data environment in a business can lead to huge successes.
Next up was a job fair at Trinoma mall put on by Job Quest PH. My goal here was to recruiting a few young professionals looking to get started in analytics as DMAIPH is looking for some marketing analysts.
A few days later I attended a Data Science event being set up by my good friends at Talas. This free event saw a meeting of the minds of a lot of thought leaders in data science as well as industry leaders in employing analysts and data science. Pretty exciting stuff.
The final 2016 event on my schedule was another full day training organized by my key business partner Ariva. The topic, Big Data and Business Intelligence, which proved to be a great opportunity to help people gain a stronger handle on analytics and how they can be an analytics champion in their business.
2016 turned out to be my most successful year yet. Analytics in now mainstream and I love it.
Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions. DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.
Big Data Analytics: Interpretation and Assessing Results > 2/21/17
I will be speaking on February 21, 2017 at Discovery Suites, Ortigas Center, Pasig City on Data Analytics.
With that in mind, I wanted to share a little more detail about each section, next up…
Enabling Your Business to Make Smarter Decisions Section 3: Interpretation—Assessing Results
Participants will be able to Articulate the Importance of Accurately Interpreting Data. Having the right data at your fingertips is essential to being successful with analytics.
We will also be able to Determine and Analyze Risk, Uncertainty, and Probability. With so much data, you need to know what data to analyze when to stay ahead of the game.
I will also talk about how to Spot Patterns, Trends, and Fluctuations Through Correlation, Regression, and Descriptive Statistics. Analytics techniques like these will keep you on the cutting edge.
Attendees will be able to Understand when to employ Descriptive, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics. Each type has a specific use, make sure you know when to use each one.
And finally we will discuss how to Build Data Models. You don’t need to have high priced, complicated software to do some basic data modeling. I’ll show you some examples.
That’s section three… I’ll go over the last section in the next few days.
DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings.
We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience.
If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help.
Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.
Big Data Analytics: Using Business Intelligence Tools – 7/11/17 in Ortigas
A good analyst uses Business Intelligence Tools like Batman uses devices stored in his utility belt.
Per Wikipedia, business intelligence (BI) tools are “a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The applications generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.”
Knowing what business intelligence tool to employ to what data set in order to conduct analysis and present your findings requires a thorough understanding of what tools are available and what they can do.
The key general categories of business intelligence applications include:
- Spreadsheets
- Reporting and querying software: applications that extract, sort, summarize, and present selected data
- Online analytical processing (OLAP)
- Digital dashboards
- Data mining
- Process visualization
- Data warehousing
By far the most common business intelligence tool used is MS Excel. Having at least a intermediate masterly of Excel is a good start in understanding how business intelligence tools work.
Learning to run formulas, insert pivot tables and produce simple visualizations using charts and graphs give a foundation in how to take data and do something with it to inspire analysis.
Using Excel also teaches you how data needs to be structured, formatted and managed. You can’t run even basic analysis activities if your data is not encoded in a way that your tools can make sense of.
Once you have mastered the use of Excel then the logical next step is using BI tools that pull data from Excel. For example, Tableau is a BI tool that can extract data from Excel to build more powerful data analysis and visualizations.
BI tools can also be used to mine data from large data storage systems like data warehouses, data lakes and data marts. Again, understanding how data is structured in important. Knowing how queries are written (for example in SQL) to extract data is important.
If you are looking to get a better understanding of what tools you should be using to analysis the data in your business, you can join my next training seminar (July 11, 2017) in Ortigas.
Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.
Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
Enabling Your Business to Make Smarter Decisions
Are you tired of being under constant pressure to make the right number-based decisions for your organization?
Are you too often overwhelmed by an out-of-control flood of numerical information, much of it conflicting and confusing?
Big data is booming ast as organizations devote new technology resources to tapping the terabytes (if not petabytes) of data flowing into their organizations.
Today big Data is flooding into the business both through internal processes and externally via social media.
What does this all mean for business intelligence (BI) users and systems?
With all the attention on advanced analytics for big data, what’s the play for BI?
Integrating advanced analytics for big data with BI systems is an important step toward gaining full return on investment.
Advanced analytics and BI can be highly complementary.
Advanced analytics can provide the deeper, exploratory perspective on the data.
BI systems provide a more structured user experience through there richness in dashboard visualization, reporting, performance management metrics, and more can be vital to making advanced analytics actionable.
Recently on December 6, 2016 I was at Astoria Plaza, Ortigas Center, Pasig City for a dynamic and empowering one-day training on Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
Course Description:
Make smarter business decisions using these powerful data analysis techniques
Information is supposed to make us smarter, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us.
This program is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your company initiatives.
The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, managers must consider the practical side of big data…what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions.
Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge. The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it.
This seminar goes beyond the qualitative side of data analysis to explore proven quantitative techniques and technologies for identifying, inventorying and integrating data, so that more informed and reliable business decisions can be made.
Learning Objectives
- Apply Best Techniques and Cutting Edge Technologies to Organize, Interpret, and Summarize Quantitative Data
- Create a Process to Analyze Data and Identify Patterns Not Apparent at First Glance
- Reduce “Analysis Paralysis” and Go from Hard Data to Well-Reasoned Conclusions in Less Time
What Was Learned
- Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
- Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
- How to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
- A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy
What Was Covered
- Using data and statistics effectively in business today
- Improper data manipulations and their consequences
- Exploring quantitative data collection methods
- Improving analysis success by effectively utilizing software
- Understanding regression, trend lines, and scenarios in Excel
- Utilizing the power of business intelligence software
- Finding and analyzing data patterns, trends, and fluctuations
- Interpreting and translating data into decisions
Who Attended
Over 80 business professionals who needed to learn more about the basic tools to quantitatively and accurately analyze the mountains of data that come across their desk each minute of every day.
Section One
Big Data—It’s Not Just Size
- Describe the Importance of Effectively Analyzing Big Data in Business Today
- Come up with a Data Map to Analyze the Big Data in your business.
- Establish Clear Objectives When Analyzing Big Data
- Recognize and Apply Various Data Collection Methods
- Identify and Resolve Problems Associated with Data Collection
- Discuss the difference between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
- Determine when to use Data Blending in your analysis
Section Two
Analysis—Using Business Intelligence Tools
- Assess Your Current Analytics Culture
- Describe the Issues and Trends in Today’s Analytics Field
- Optimize your use of MS Excel for Big Data analytics
- Discuss the concept of Data Visualization
- Utilize BI Tools like Tableau Public
- Build a Business Dashboard Prototype
Section Three
Interpretation—Assessing Results
- Articulate the Importance of Accurately Interpreting Data
- Determine and Analyze Risk, Uncertainty, and Probability
- Spot Patterns, Trends, and Fluctuations Through Correlation, Regression, and Descriptive Statistics
- Understand when to employ Descriptive, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics
- Build Data Models
Section Four
The Art of Presenting Big Data
- Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly
- Select the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience
- Master the Power of Enchantment
- Use Findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions Within Your Organization
Too often people dive into the data only to be lost in haze of data.
This discussion will be pragmatic and immediately applicable to analysts, professional using analytics and managers of analysts across all industries.
Analytics Training – DMAIPH in partnership with Ariva Events Management, offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation on which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.
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