Leveraging Big Data in Learning and Development

Summer weekends are the perfect time to catch up on reading and to think about things we often don’t have time to think about during the hustle and bustle of a “typical” business week.  This weekend I had the opportunity of reading an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review by Wharton School professor Peter Cappelli titled “There is No Such Thing as Big Data in HR.”  Peter is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management and is world renown for his work in the area of Human Resources.  In the HBR article, Peter shares his insights that while the rest of the world is just leveraging the power of big data analytics and is on the cusp of introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the equation, even the largest business organizations on the planet only employ a couple of hundred thousand employees so by definition, it’s impossible to gain insights from “big data” because there simply isn’t enough big data to analyze.

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