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September 12, 2023 Joe Grohovsky

John Sumser: 12 Questions to Ask an Artificial Intelligence Solution

John Sumser, one of the most insightful industry analysts in HR, recently wrote an article providing guidance on the selection of machine...
September 1, 2023 Phil Schrader

SuccessFactors:  The Goldilocks Applicant Tracking System

It’s always good news when a prospective One Model customer tells me that they use SuccessFactors for recruiting. Given that HR technology...
August 17, 2023 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #1: We're Your HR Data Cleansing Service

The One Model difference that really sets us apart is our ability to extract all your messy data and clean it into a standardized data...
August 8, 2023 Dennis Behrman

What's the difference between forecasting and predictive analytics?

Ever play with a Magic 8 Ball? Back in the day, you could ask it any question and get an answer in just a few seconds. And if you didn't...
July 28, 2023 Lisa Meehan

Top-Down to Team-Oriented: Examining Organisational Structures

The way a company structures its workforce is crucial to its success. Workforce structures determine how employees are organised, how work...
July 21, 2023 Phil Schrader

People Analytics sneaky frustration: How to count people over time?

Analytics is a funny discipline. On one hand, we deal with idealized models of how the world works. On the other hand, we are constantly...
May 31, 2023 Lauren Canada

Storytelling with Data Across the Employee Lifecycle

This infographic reveals 4 key HR metrics to strengthen your next data story, so you can prevent costly turnover and retain top talent....
May 17, 2023 Jamie Strnisha

Using People Analytics for Strategic Workforce Planning

Given the Great Resignation, recent mass layoffs, and store closures, the past year has shown just how crucial strategic workforce planning...
May 9, 2023 Joe Grohovsky

Do Not Allow Your People Analytics Tactics to Become “The Noise Before Defeat”

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."- Sun Tzu Complex people...
April 25, 2023 Lauren Canada

3 Keys to Great Employee Listening at Scale

Effective workforce and employee listening is one of the most critical skills for HR professionals. To address workforce needs, HR team...
April 4, 2023 Richard Rosenow

The Three Channels of Workforce Information: An Integrated Framework for Workforce Listening

Listening at Scale Effective listening is arguably the most critical skill for HR professionals. To address workforce needs, HR team...
March 6, 2023 Richard Rosenow

5 Tips for Getting HR Data Extraction Right

It’s very difficult to do people analytics without data. Finding and extracting workforce data to use for analytics is maybe the first and...
March 3, 2023 Marcus Joseph

Are Your Employees Sick of Having No Paid Sick Leave?

In the US, leave is having a moment. From the US President’s State of the Union to New York’s 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, to the...
January 30, 2023 Chris Butler

How You're Wasting 75% of the Power of Employee Surveys

The employee survey still is perhaps the most ubiquitous tool in use for HR to give their employees a voice. It may be changing and being...
January 11, 2023 Jamie Strnisha

Attendance Tracking is Only the Beginning. Let's Dive into Facility Analytics.

In today's competitive business landscape, it's more important than ever for workplaces to provide value to employees, customers, and...
January 9, 2023 Richard Rosenow

5 Points Connecting HR Analytics to Business Benefits

People analytics is a rapidly growing field that is helping businesses around the world to better understand and manage their employees....
January 6, 2023 Eliza Fury

The HR Revolution: Maximizing Your Talent Resources With People Analytics

Like many others, data is not a new concept. If you’re anything like me you’ve grown up with it. Whether it was making your first social...
November 21, 2022 Phil Schrader

4 Advantages of People Analytics in a Recession

People analytics provides insight into your organisation’s workforce. Your company’s workforce is at or near the top of your organisation’s...
October 20, 2022 Stacia Damron

4 Diversity Metrics that Measure Your DE&I Success

Is your company meeting its diversity goals? More importantly, if it is, are you adequately measuring diversity and inclusion success?...
October 14, 2022 Chris Butler

People Analytics Success: What Makes One Model Special

HR professionals have heard the stories and read the news. Large organisations are having considerable success implementing a people...
August 24, 2022 Phil Schrader

8 Essential People Analytics Dashboards

As a people analytics leader, you’re going to be confronted with some not-to-simple, horribly open-ended questions: “Hey, so what do you...
June 27, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

Measuring the Value of People Analytics: How to Calculate HR Analytics Use & Impact

How do we measure the value of people analytics? Is your organization making better, more data-informed talent decisions today versus a...
June 21, 2022 Nicholas Garbis

Here’s how People Analytics fits into your HR strategy

The role of the Human Resources function is to ensure that the organization has the talent it needs to execute its strategies, making HR a...
June 20, 2022 Chris Butler

HRIS Software Comparison: Who has the Best People Analytics Integration Architecture?

Workday vs SuccessFactors vs OracleRatings Based on Experience Integrating HR Tech for People Analytics This vendor-by-vendor comparison...
May 25, 2022 Jamie Strnisha

Headcount Reports and Balancing Internal Net Movements

One of the most common reporting challenges companies face is balancing headcount over time by adding and subtracting Hires and...
March 14, 2022 Chris Butler

7 Secrets Every CHRO Should Know About People Analytics

A major shift has occurred in Human Resources over the past five years. The world went from a handful of companies experimenting with...
February 3, 2022 Chris Butler

People Analytics vs HR Analytics: The Evolution

When I first started work with InfoHRM in the people analytics domain back in 2006, we were the only vendor in the space and had been for...
January 18, 2022 Tony Ashton

Overcoming 6 Key Challenges in Establishing a Data Analytics Capability

[This article is taken from a presentation I delivered as part of a broader session on People Analytics for the Australian Human Resources...
August 11, 2021 Chris Butler

Can your people analytics strategy deliver the public service of the future?

The public sector is rapidly evolving, is your people analytics strategy fit for purpose and can it meet the increasing demands of a modern...
July 22, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

New Whitepaper from One Model: "Delivering People Analytics from Workday"

Our team recently published a whitepaper which explains the "how and why" of our approach to getting data out of Workday. In it we share a...
July 19, 2021 Chris Butler

One Model appointed to the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency Cloud Marketplace

One Model has announced its appointment to the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency Cloud Marketplace, a digital sourcing...
June 3, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

Insight Generation: Humans and Machines Turning on “Lightbulbs” Together (VIDEO!)

WATCH THE VIDEO! Conversation with our Chief Product Officer, Tony Ashton, on the topic of insight generation and he shows how One Model’s...
April 27, 2021 Nicholas Garbis

VIDEO: "Lightning Round Learning, Strategic Workforce Planning, pt. 1"

There are whole books written about Workforce Planning. I read them and enjoy them (maybe even more than I would like to admit). I will...
April 22, 2021 Phil Schrader

Greenhouse Workday Integration with Engagement Surveys: The Secrets Your Cohorts are Hiding.

Thanks for stopping by the blog to check out our work on integrating Workday, Greenhouse, and Engagement Survey data. Along with a video ...
April 22, 2021 Chris Butler

People Analytics Needs to Support the Enterprise Data Mesh Architecture

If people analytics teams are going to control their own destiny they're going to need to need to support the enterprise data strategy. You...
December 17, 2020 Chris Butler

One Model Wins "Best New People Analytics Solution" at HR Tech Alliances Summit

This week One Model was delighted to participate with an elite group of our industry peers in the HR Tech Alliances, Virtual Collaboration...
November 25, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

"Explore the Power of People Analytics" an eBook for HR and Business Leaders.

As part of a recent People Analytics course from the Future Workplace, Nicholas Garbis joined forces with course leader Heather Whiteman,...
November 23, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

Why do some People Analytics stakeholders settle for limited products?

As a result of my blogs and customer conversations, I receive a variety of interesting comments and feedback from my contacts in the People...
September 17, 2020 Chris Butler

5 ways people analytics and One Model can help you resolve underpayments issues

Following our blog last month about how systems issues can open the door to staff underpayment, a number of our stakeholders have asked if...
August 12, 2020 Tony Ashton

How to mitigate the likelihood of an underpayments scandal

Following recent media reports that another significant Australian institution has been involved in an underpayments scandal, we thought it...
July 7, 2020 Nicholas Garbis

The June jobs report was good. Here’s why July will be even better.

SUMMARY: June was great at 4.8 million new jobs. July will be over 6 million.
July 1, 2020 Jamie Strnisha

The Need to Build Structural Views of Data: SAP SuccessFactors Data

Over the years I have worked with several operational and strategic (analytic) reporting tools. I have found challenges with both types of...
June 8, 2020 Joe Grohovsky

What Makes a Successful People Analytics Professional?

To help understand why some People Analytics professionals are more successful than others I undertook a worldwide request for insight. I...
June 1, 2020 Chris Butler

People Analytics for SAP SuccessFactors

The first in a series of posts tackling the individual nuances we see with HR technology systems and the steps we take in overcoming their...
March 17, 2020 Chris Butler

People Analytics for measuring the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

With the continued growth of the Coronavirus pandemic our leaders are going to be asking for regular updates on our employees health and...
November 7, 2019 Josh Lemoine

Like Craft Beer? Then you'll LOVE Craft People Analytics.

Software companies today aren't exactly selling the idea of "lovingly crafting you some software that's unique and meaningful to you"....
October 24, 2019 Chris Butler

Using People Analytics to Support System Migration and Innovation Adoption

About ten years ago, as the pace of HR technology migration to the cloud started to heat up, I started to have a lot more conversations...
May 1, 2019 Tony Ashton

Why I'm Excited to Join One Model - by our New Chief Product Officer, Tony Ashton

Here at One Model, we are incredibly excited to have Tony Ashton join us from SAP SuccessFactors as our first Chief Product Officer and...
April 23, 2019 Stacia Damron

Meet Tony Ashton: Chief Product Officer at One Model

The One Model team is excited to announce that Tony Ashton has moved from Vice President of Product Management at SAP SuccessFactors to be...
January 11, 2019 Phil Schrader

The Case for Doing Things Backwards in 2019

As the people analytics leader in your organization, you are responsible for transforming people data into a unique competitive...
January 7, 2019 Josh Lemoine

How to Burn 296,827 Calories Using One Model

2019 Goals: With it being the dawn of a new year, a lot of us are setting goals for ourselves. This year, I set two goals: To write and...
December 3, 2018 Stacia Damron

AI Academy: What's predictive analytics & what can HR do with it?

Wouldn't it be incredible to predict the future? Let's ask 63-year-old Joan Ginther. She's arguably one of the luckiest women in the world.
November 8, 2018 Stacia Damron

AI Academy: What is Machine Learning?

What's machine learning? Is it artificial intelligence? Deep learning? Is it black magic, or better yet, just a phrase the industry's...
October 12, 2018 Stacia Damron

Workplace Trust - 58% of People Trust Strangers More than Their Own Boss

It’s a great time to be in management, right? According to a Harvard Business Review survey, we live in a world where trust is at an all...
October 10, 2018 Chris Butler

Why you should consider joining a people analytics peer group.

Earlier this year i joined one of The Learning Forum's workforce analytics peer groups and i wanted to share my experience in attendence...
September 26, 2018 Stacia Damron

There are more CEOs named David than there are women CEOs.

It’s sounds ridiculous, but it’s true. According to the New York Times, 4.2% of women held CEO roles in America’s 500 largest companies....
September 11, 2018 Stacia Damron

HRExaminer Adds One Model to "Most Interesting AI Companies in HR Tech" Watchlist

Today, at The HR Technology Conference and Exposition, HRExaminer unveiled its 2019 Watchlist - "The Most Interesting AI Vendors in HR...
July 26, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Launches New Website

One Model is keen on ensuring our customers have an exceptional experience interacting with both our software and team alike. That...
July 11, 2018 Phil Schrader

Time Is On My Side: The Requisition Cholesterol Graph

Last week I was doodling some recruiting graphs in my notebook, with an eye toward building out some new recruiting efficiency dashboards....
June 25, 2018 Chris Butler

Future Proofing the Future of Work

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Talent Strategy Institute’s Future of Work conference (now PAFOW) in San Francisco about how I...
April 23, 2018 Phil Schrader

Steam Powered Data Science for HR

We’re back with another installment of our One Model Difference series. On the heels of our One AI announcement, how could we not take this...
March 30, 2018 Stacia Damron

Why is a Tech Startup Blogging about Spring Cleaning?

How did Spring cleaning become a thing, and why do we do it? It’s officially March. Daylight savings has us up an hour earlier, the...
March 15, 2018 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #11 - Your Data Insurance Policy

There will be over 400 HR product and service providers in the expo hall at HR Tech in September. A typical company makes use of 8 - 11 of...
March 13, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Announces One AI

The One Model team is pleased to announce its official launch ofOne AI. The new tool integrates cutting-edge machine learning...
February 26, 2018 Chris Butler

Predict Turnover Risk for $0.57c using AWS Machine Learning  - Part 2

We received a lot of interest from Part 1 of this blog post so if you haven't read it yet head over for a summary view of our...
February 21, 2018 Phil Schrader

The One Model Difference #17: The Most Advanced Role-Based Security

People often ask us, "What makes One Model different?" Well...there's a lot we could show and tell. We've decided to respond with a series...
February 14, 2018 Stacia Damron

One Model Announces Updated 2018 Trade Show Schedule

Find our team in a city near you, and stop by in person to learn more about our workforce analytics solutions. February 9, 2018 - Austin, TX
January 15, 2018 Chris Butler

Predict Turnover Risk for $0.57c using AWS Machine Learning  - Part 1

“We scoffed when you predicted he would leave, six weeks later he was gone. Never in a million years would I have said he would leave ”
January 2, 2018 Chris Butler

Smaller organizations have a surprising appetite for People Analytics.

The biggest change in people analytics that surprised me in 2017 wasn't any new leap in technology or shiny new object. For me, it was...
April 11, 2016 Mike West

How your company is doing People Analytics poorly (even if you think you aren't doing People Analytics)

You may not think your company is yet doing People Analytics but here is one way your employer is already doing so, poorly. Employers...
February 22, 2016 Mike West

Does People Analytics Work? #PAQA

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.” Henry Ford, Lord Lever, John Wanamaker... ...
February 19, 2016 Mike West

#1 Reason People Quit Google and What They Are Doing About It

# 1 Reason people leave google: to connect with their personal calling to change the world. Ironically, it is also the number one reason...
January 30, 2016 Mike West

My Learning From People Analytics & The Future Of Work #PAFOW

I spent four days in San Francisco visiting People Analytics professionals and attending Al Adamsen's Talent Strategy Institute : People...
January 18, 2016 Mike West

The Work of Freedom is Not Finished : People Analytics and Diversity.

January 18th, 2016 In the 53 years that has passed since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech America has...
January 13, 2016 Mike West

5 Reasons HR Analytics Efforts Stall and a New Way Forward

"Life is a struggle, and then you die" So go make something of it. Work on something important and watch over these things. The 5 Reasons...
December 29, 2015 Mike West

Welcome to People Analytics, Are You Sure You Want This Job?

“Men* wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition...