Driving Profit and Performance Through Workforce Analytics

Organizations Combining Business Intelligence With Human Capital Data Significantly Outperform Companies Without These Capabilities


BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - October 6, 2009) - Just published research on workforce analytics and reporting from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), shows that organizations with human capital reporting and analytics capabilities in place are significantly outperforming organizations without these capabilities. The research report, "Intelligent Human Capital Management: Workforce Analytics Drives Profit and Performance," showed that organizations utilizing analytics on average achieved a 4% improvement in both profit and revenue per employee, plus an 11% year over year improvement in employee performance. In comparison, those organizations not using analytics to help make decisions about their workforce suffered a 1% drop in revenue and a 5% reduction in profitability.

"Organizations today are looking to maintain better control over every aspect of their business," said Mollie Lombardi, research analyst, Aberdeen Group. "When they are able to utilize data to make better talent decisions, companies today are able to deliver a better experience for their customers and their employees." The key strategies identified include integrating human capital data with data from elsewhere in the organization to allow for scenario planning.

"Our research found that the top performing 20% of organizations saw as much as an 11% improvement in profit per employee, and a 6% growth in revenue per employee. Those leading organizations are much better at providing line managers with usable data on the workforce -- 45% of managers have immediate access to current HCM data on their team members at their desks," said David White, senior research analyst, Aberdeen Group.

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About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company

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Contact Information: Media Contact: Mollie Lombardi Aberdeen Harte-Hanks (617) 854-5216 mollie.lombardi@aberdeen.com