Boudreau (management and organization, U. of Southern California) explains how human resources executives and non-HR leaders can use established and proven analytical business tools to optimize an organization's talent management system and enhance their analysis, communication, and decision making. In each chapter, he details how human resources can retool a common talent and human capital issue by reframing it in the language of a proven business framework: the use of performance optimization to retool work analysis, portfolio diversification to retool talent scenarios, consumer research to retool talent supply strategies, inventory optimization in talent gap analysis, and workforce logistics in the talent life cycle. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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HR professionals have made major strides toward becoming strategic partners. But they need to do more - by generating value through savvy decisions about talent. HR leaders typically assume that, to make such decisions, they must develop sophisticated analytical tools from scratch. Even then, the resulting tools often fail to engage their peers.In Retooling HR, John Boudreau shows how HR leaders can break this cycle - by adapting powerful analytical tools already used by other functions to the unique challenges of talent management.Drawing on his research and examples from companies including Google, Disney, IBM, and Microsoft, Boudreau explains six proven business tools leaders already use. And he shows how HR can apply these tools to talent management. Examples include:· Using engineering tolerances to find pivot points that job descriptions miss· Using inventory and supply-chain analytics to ensure a ready supply of the right talent· Applying logistics tools to optimize succession planning and leadership development· Adapting consumer research tools to find untapped value in total rewardsRetooling HR builds on Boudreau's bestselling book Beyond HR, which traces HR's evolution as a decision science. For HR professionals seeking to sharpen their decision-making prowess, this provocative new book blazes an innovative new path.
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