With Big Data, HR Departments Too Often Get Short Shrift

The importance of using big data to drive informed decision-making has become socialized across most organizations recently

While finance, marketing and other departments within a company receive customized data and analytics systems, human resources is still left with big data hand-me-downs

There is no one-size-fits-all blueprint for big-data infrastructure

Companies invest heavily to customize big-data and analytics tools, often on a department-by-department basis, to ensure the insights inform specific needs and strategies

Unfortunately for human resources, it is often revenue-driving departments that receive customized tools, leaving human resources to make use of infrastructure that simply doesnt fit

Human-resource departments generate and collect more data than most other areas of a company, but our attempts to claim big data for our own often get mired in technology infrastructure and analytics tools that were never intended to meet the needs of a modern HR organization.http://on.wsj.com/1AB0EWF