Data analytics building a data-driven culture

One of the main obstacles to instituting evidence-based practice can lie in implementing data findings. Hence, even with a critical appreciation of data, HR and global mobility professionals face communications and cultural challenges. Explanations are needed of how people analytics can contribute to business outcomes and how additional value can be derived from such data and scaled up across the business. This means that emphasis has to be placed on embedding a data-driven culture and communicating its benefits. To develop data awareness, it is necessary to provide explicit communications and feedback to nudge people towards desired behaviours. To ensure that data is appreciated and used to best effect within organisations, interventions that facilitate its use are needed. For example, HR and global mobility professionals must present data in a user-friendly way, with a focus on its contribution toward decision-making. Emphasis on the decisions that people need to take is required, otherwise data can appear bewildering and superfluous.