New Orleans In the age of “big data” we are led to believe that eyes are everywhere on all of us. All is known by the all-knowing. NSA is up our nose. It goes on and on. Yet, somehow we are losing people. We lost more than 400,000 people on certifications under the Affordable Care …
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Too Much Data in Too Many Hands for Both Good and Evil
New Orleans An observation decades ago always stuck with me. It was a comparison of Americans and people who live elsewhere. The point made by the author, whose name fittingly has long ago left me, is that we have too much information at hand and too little ability to process it. Ironically, that was then, …
People Analytics are a Scaring Part of the Hiring Future, but…
Ocean Springs, Mississippi Another article in the holiday reading pile was a piece in The Atlantic called They’re Watching You at Work. The reporter, Don Peck, reviewed the current utilization of “big data” to create something that big company human relations departments were calling “people analytics.” In a nutshell these outfits are crunching the information they …