A Deloitte Human Capital Trends report from 2015 found that very few organizations were focusing on people analytics to tackle complex business and talent issues. This year’s edition of the same report records an increasingly integrated approach to workforce analytics and warns of a potential backlash if companies go too far with people data.

Somewhere in between those two sub-optimal scenarios lie the sweet spot for people analytics. This is the point where sophisticated analytics meets data from a range of organizational and external sources to balance effective human capital management with achieving strategic business outcomes.

Source: analyticsinsight.net