Tag Archives: Statistics
HR and Big Data; Jumping the Gun?
Big Data is unlikely to lead to the breakthroughs in understanding of what makes success unless organisations start to take into account the key intangibles such as relationships and culture. To understand performance or lack thereof, we need to look far beyond the capabilities, characteristics or behaviour of individuals. Instead, relationships, culture, other intangibles and contextual factors play a larger role in understanding performance. Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Intangibles, Leadership, Relationships, 4G, Culture, General Tagged Statistics, Predictive analytics, Business intelligence, Data mining, Data analysis, decision making 2 Comments
Getting the Right Numbers
The trailer came out recently for a new Brad Pitt movie (here), Moneyball, an adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book about the rise of the Oakland A’s baseball team, where General Manager Billy Beane was temporarily able to use innovative statistical … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Billy Beane, Simon Kuper, Oakland, collaboration, baseball, the Financial Times, player, Moneyball, General Manager, Football, tackle, Complexity, Statistics, Michael Lewis, Brad Pitt Leave a comment
