刚刚，Workday宣布开放Workday Cloud Platform 进入Paas市场。
刚刚WorkdayCEO Aneel Bhusri 在拉斯维加斯举行的workday Altitude大会中宣布，开放其Workday Cloud Platform 进入Paas 市场。详细地址可以看 这里
Aneel 解释了为什么要进入，以及客户和伙伴们的强烈需求。同时比喻Workday 很像阿波罗登月计划一样，一步一步的来。第一步是HCM ，第二步是国际化，第三步是财务，第四步是棱镜分析与规划，开放平台则是第五步！
我们附录下Aneel 的英文全文帮助大家更好的了解：
“When will Workday open up its platform?”
This question is one of the most frequent ones we’ve received over the years from customers, analysts, and employees alike. And we have always been clear with our response: While opening up the platform was a likely possibility in the future, we needed to stay focused on more immediate priorities for our customers and the requisite needs of our application development teams. Indeed, we had to ensure our technology core offered rock-solid reliability and scalability as well as the flexibility to continually evolve with a rapidly changing business landscape.
Today, we are ready to take a big step forward on our extensibility journey by announcing our intent to open our platform to customers and a broader ecosystem of partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), and developers. The news was shared by our Chief Technology Architect Jon Ruggiero at Altitude, our annual conference for the Workday services ecosystem. This announcement followed an exciting platform hackathon that took place earlier at Altitude and validated that we are on the right path.
And like everything we do, we based our decision on customer input. Simply put, a growing number of customers have been asking for a more open Workday platform. They want to use Workday as a cloud backbone that supports cohesive, digital workflows across multiple business applications—reflective of how their people work and how their businesses operate in today’s hyper-connected, real-time world.
By opening up the Workday Cloud Platform and entering the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market, Workday intends to enable customers and our broader ecosystem to use our platform services to build custom extensions and applications that can significantly enhance what organizations are able to accomplish with Workday.
For instance, customers will be able to create new tasks and business processes to consolidate workflows and they’ll also be able to integrate external applications with Workday using new APIs. This is just a sampling of what will be possible when opening the Workday Cloud Platform, and we’re looking forward to exploring all the ways we can empower our community to develop solutions for more unique business needs, while continuing to benefit from Workday’s contextual data, robust security, battle-tested scalability, and engaging user experience.
While it’s still early days, I believe that opening up the Workday Cloud Platform will prove to be one of most important moves we’ve made since starting the company back in 2005. As a big fan of the Apollo missions, I have been fond of comparing Workday’s strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon. HCM was our first booster rocket that launched the company, international expansion was the second stage, Financial Management was the third, and the combination of Planning and Prism Analytics was the fourth and most recent step in our journey. Opening up the Workday Cloud Platform and entering the PaaS market will be number five—a major step for Workday as we continue to innovate and bring increasing value to our customers.
It’s an exciting time for the Workday community, and I look forward to sharing more about this next phase of our journey together in the coming months (hint hint Workday Rising in the fall).
—Aneel
People Analytics
2017年07月12日
People Analytics
2017年9大你不得不看的人力资源科技趋势
引言：人力资源科技正在经历十年来最动荡的时期，从云端到移动端的转变，人工智能的大爆发，现在的一切都在改变，自然传统人力资源也已经过时。随着时代的发展和人力资源行业的重塑，作为HR的领航者你需要以下9大人力资源科技趋势来领航。
HR technology is undergoing one of the most disruptive periods it has seen in a decade. Investors, seeking the next big thing in breakthrough technology, plunged more than $2 billion into HR tech systems and platforms in 2016, according to CB Insights, a venture capital database. While investment to date is on track for a slight decline from last year, deal activity in HR tech has grown consistently in the last 5 years and at the current rate is expected to increase more than 15 percent over 2015. This amazing investment growth—much of it spent on integrated human resource management system (HRMS) platforms for midsize companies—illustrates the industry’s volatility.
That instability is being driven by the shift from cloud to mobile; the explosion in analytics and artificial intelligence; and the emergence of video, social recruiting and wearables in the workplace. Everything is changing, and quickly—including the types of technology HR professionals use, the experiences those systems deliver and the underlying software designs—making many of the traditional HR systems purchased only a decade ago seem out of date.
With these developments and more reshaping HR, business leaders would be wise to understand the following nine technology trends that will shape the year ahead and beyond.
1. The Performance Management Revolution
For almost five years, companies have been throwing away ratings, adding check-ins, developing agile goal systems, and making performance management much more data-driven and team-oriented. But there have been almost no tools in the market to automate this—until now. Today, there are at least a dozen companies selling cloud-based, team-centric performance management applications that connect to HR management or enterprise resource planning systems, many of which:
Manage performance by team, rather than only by hierarchy.
Allow for dynamic team management—that is, the ability to create and change teams quickly.
Make goals transparent and easy to change and track.
Feature check-in mechanisms.
Have built-in pulse surveys, end-of-period surveys, and ad hoc feedback presented via tags and word clouds.
Incorporate development plans that are prepopulated, simple to build and based on data derived from employees in similar roles.
Feature online assessments, help conducting personality assessments and resources to guide managers through difficult conversations.
Can be used with activity streams and other gamification features that make them engaging and browsable.
Are integrated with employee directories and other HR tools to become part of everyday work.
2. An Explosion in Real-Time Engagement Evaluation
Customer and marketing teams have been developing innovative ways to measure customer input for decades. Today, companies are starting to do the same with their employees by making use of always-on, pulse-based feedback systems. Some employers now survey workers quarterly, monthly or even weekly, and many modern systems enable event-based feedback that can be gathered whenever there is a major organizational change.
Not only are these tools becoming critical infrastructure for businesses trying to understand their employees’ needs, they are being integrated with performance management systems, succession planning initiatives, change management strategies and just about every other people practice.
Indeed, feedback-based tools and systems will become a major theme in HR platforms in the coming years.
3. The Rise of People Analytics
I can’t talk about disruptive technology without discussing the enormous strides that have taken place in the field of people analytics. Over the years that I’ve researched this market, organizations have moved from back-office HR data warehouses to advanced analytics and reporting dashboards to predictive models and more.
As analytics models become more prevalent, companies are slowly moving away from building their own solutions to buying them from vendors. Oracle, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, ADP, Cornerstone, Visier and Ultimate Software all have employee retention predictors (among many other modeling features) embedded in their software. Workday’s system can identify employee job changes that are likely to result in high-performance outcomes (as well as what job moves not to make). The products from Oracle and SuccessFactors can recommend which training employees should have based on their roles and activities at work, and Workday will soon have this functionality as well. Cornerstone’s system can predict which workers are likely to become noncompliant or lapse in their mandatory training and certification. As these embedded models continue to mature, HR departments will need to hire teams that understand them and can apply them effectively.
New approaches for applying feedback and models of performance management have also emerged. One vendor, Starling Trust, offers a system that can analyze patterns of e-mail and other communication to build "trust networks"; it can actually predict where a security leak or fraud is likely to occur. Another company, Humanyze, sells smart badges that monitor workers’ locations and voice tenor to gauge when and where they experience the most stress. This data can be used to help companies reorganize facilities, change meeting times and formats, and drive engagement.
A third recently-acquired vendor also provides tools that analyze e-mails to assess how people’s communications and time management practices differ. The platform can determine, for example, that high-performing salespeople spend more time than their lower-performing peers with certain groups and customers—and that data can be used to nudge others to change their behavior.
It’s time to double down on your investment in analytics. My friends at big companies tell me that it takes a few years—and often a big budget—to clean up HR data, bring it into a consolidated environment and hire an analytics team to start doing the work. Organizations that don’t make this investment are likely to be disrupted by competitors that do.
4. Maturation of the Learning Market
While most big companies have legacy learning management systems (Cornerstone, SumTotal, Saba, Oracle and SuccessFactors, for example), there are many new options available. Products are being reinvented by vendors issuing major new releases. New solutions like Workday Learning, Fuse Universal, SAP Jam and other tools focus on scaling video learning to the enterprise.
There is another category of learning products coming that I call "learning experience platforms." They focus on delivering a "learning platform" and not just a "learning management platform." In other words, they are places to go to browse and learn, and not merely to register for courses.
These new platforms bring YouTube-like video experiences to employees and include features for curation, recommended learning and data-driven recommendations. I predict that this new category of software will become huge as every major company realizes it needs these systems as a complement (or, someday, replacement) for its core learning system. Vendors include Degreed, Pathgather, EdCast, Everwise, LinkedIn Learning and others.
5. A New Landscape for Talent Acquisition
Today’s recruitment and talent acquisition market is enormous—an estimated $240 billion in the United States alone based on research by Bersin by Deloitte. This massive market focuses on tools to help companies:
Find strong job candidates.
Market and brand themselves.
Post and distribute job postings.
Manage and interact with job boards.
Conduct prehire skills assessments.
Perform background screening and psychological testing.
Interview candidates.
Manage the entire complex process from end to end via applicant tracking and recruitment management systems.
These tools are highly strategic for many businesses. Fast-growing technology companies, for example, can make or break their business plans based on how quickly they can find the right engineers, marketing professionals and salespeople. Retailers and seasonal manufacturers need to hire hundreds to thousands of people at critical times during the year, so it is key that they be able to find workers as quickly and effectively as possible at scale.
Today, a new breed of platforms, including those from vendors such as SmartRecruiters, Lever, Greenhouse, Gild and others, have started from scratch, building end-to-end recruitment management systems that handle everything, including sourcing, ad management, analytics, online interviewing, interview management, candidate scoring, ongoing candidate relationship management and onboarding. These tools were designed to directly connect to LinkedIn and other job boards, and they can store candidates’ information so that it can be revisited year after year. In addition to managing applicants, they keep track of candidates and even alumni. Further, they focus on building tools that are easy to use for hiring managers and candidates, and not just recruiters and HR.
6. The Growth of Contingent Workforce Management
Roughly 40 percent of workers in the United States are contingent in some fashion, according to government sources, and many of them look for jobs on special networks. Employers use those same channels to post jobs and find people with specialized skills.
There are two emerging markets that support this new way of working. The first is contingent workforce management systems, such as Fieldglass from SAP, Kronos, Beeline, PeopleFluent, Workday and many others. This sector, which includes software for vendor management, as well as time-tracking and scheduling systems, is highly fragmented with only a few leaders.
The second market is the gig-work networks that match workers to projects. There are dozens of such solutions, including Upwork, Freelancer, Fiverr, Workpop and many others. These platforms have morphed from job networks to recruiting and skills-management sites. Companies such as GitHub (for software engineers), Pixelapse (a collaboration platform for designers) and others are building similar tools for technical domains.
HR professionals interested in exploring new options for finding contingent talent should start by monitoring these affinity sites to build a network of experts for contract work.
7. The Adoption of Team Management Tools
A wide variety of software tools have been designed to facilitate collaboration by making it easier for teams to track their work with features such as real-time messaging, archiving and search. These include Slack, Workboard, Trello, Asana, Wrike, BetterWorks, 15Five, Basecamp, Rallyteam and others. While not all of these applications would be categorized as HR technology tools, most are starting to enter the HR space. (BetterWorks, for instance, is actually an enterprise-class goal management platform.)
The biggest trend taking place in this sector is thesteady shift away from solutions used strictly by HRto those that help employees and managers do their jobs. For example, Workday’s new learning management system and talent management system are designed to enable employees to find their next position in their company, and to then locate and view training and video learning appropriate for that job. There is also a shift toward integrating this type of functionality with Outlook or the workflow management tools employees use every day (such as Slack or Asana).
8. A Wealth of Wellness Apps
The next major area of disruption we can expect in 2017 is the accelerated growth oftools to manage wellness, work/life balance, employee activity and—ultimately—personal performance.
Over the next year, applications for wellness, engagement, recognition and performance management could converge as each of these areas collects information on employee feedback, activity and goals and tries to improve the work environment.
Here’s how this data could come together in the next few years: Core platform providers (such as Oracle, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Ultimate Software or others) have built-in analytics engines that correlate data from many sources into a global employee database. These new tools inform the company about what people are doing, how happy they are and how well they are taking care of themselves. Soon we could have a truly integrated view of employee wellness and be able to give workers insights, nudges and advice on ways to make work better, improve productivity and advance their careers.
9. Accelerated Automated HR
HR technology is making bold advances into artificial intelligence, natural language processing and robotic process automation. This huge area covers products that can listen to our voices (such as Amazon Echo, Siri and Viv), augment call center work and connect many systems into a new workflow.
The result of these technologies, including software development tools for mobile devices, is that most HR transactions can be redesigned, not as a series of transactions that people need to perform but as "journey maps" that automate:
The entire employee joining process, not just hiring. That process may include prehire assessment; interviewing; onboarding; new-hire orientation; and the first six months of training, meeting people and learning. One of Deloitte’s clients now gives all candidates an app that helps them apply for a job, accept a position and learn their role, all as part of an integrated experience.
Processes for employee career and job transitions, including assessment, internal job search, job recommendations, interviews, job offers and acceptances, employee moves, level or compensation changes, and orientation and onboarding.
Exploration of retirement options, decisions about retirement plans, exit processes, joining the alumni network, and creating an ongoing relationship between the company and the employee after his or her departure.
Assessment of an employee’s potential, including modules for leadership development, education, networking and coaching, as well as ongoing performance management practices for new supervisors.
Artificial intelligence tools, robotic process automation and self-service transaction integration can facilitate a total redesign of the employee experience, dramatically reducing costs and improving the value of HR.
IBM, for example, now has an artificial intelligence application that helps employees do their own onboarding, finds nearby employees as mentors, and addresses the top 200 questions employees ask in any new position. The entire experience is driven by a natural language bot and has proven successful in driving employee engagement.
Almost every HR tech market will face disruption in 2017. The convergence of mobile computing, video, sensors and artificial intelligence is taking place simultaneously with an intense focus on employee engagement, culture, wellness and productivity. The result will be a new breed of products that will totally reinvent what HR technology—and HR itself—can do.
Josh Bersin is a principal and the founder of Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, a research and advisory consulting firm in enterprise learning and talent management. He is also the keynote speaker at the SHRM India HR Tech '17 Conference & Expo in April.
As used in this article, "Deloitte" means Deloitte Consulting LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting.
来源：SHRM
原文链接：https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/0217/Pages/9-HR-Tech-Trends-for-2017.aspx
People Analytics
2017年02月07日
People Analytics
ADP收购Marcus Buckingham 的TMBC公司以扩大人才投资组合
这个收购大家关注的不多，但是其实可以关注下~ 人力资源数据管理和咨询服务，更加凸显！
ADP做了一个不错的买卖！详细可以看英文版本。
TMBC的创始人，Marcus Buckingham 可是大名鼎鼎的人物啊！著名商业思想家、畅销书作家！发现你的优势！打破一切常规！
ADP has acquired The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC), an innovator in human capital management (HCM), to bring to ADP clients a more scientific approach to employee engagement and performance. TMBC, and its founder Marcus Buckingham, are pioneers in using data and research to drive talent management practices that help managers build engagement and increase performance in their teams. Their unique approach empowers managers to coach employees based on their strengths and custom-design teams based on those strengths.
TMBC's cloud-based performance and talent management solution, StandOut, couples applications with coaching and education to give team leaders the tools, insights and data needed to turn talent into better employee performance. Built on decades of groundbreaking research that has uncovered the factors that differentiate high-performing teams, this solution will now be offered as ADP StandOut. TMBC has a global client roster that spans a broad range of industries from professional services to hospitality and includes many companies in the Fortune 100.
"At its core, the strength and differentiation of any company lies in its talent," said Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO, ADP. "That is why we are continuing to invest in data-driven talent management solutions with the acquisition of TMBC. The company's technology and renowned research will add to our existing talent portfolio and puts ADP in a position to better serve the growing number of innovative organizations who are thinking differently about how they manage and engage their talent. We are thrilled to welcome both TMBC's associates and Marcus into the ADP family."
According to the Deloitte Global Human Capital Management Trends 2016 report1, 77 percent of executives say that people analytics are a priority, but only 29 percent think that they are successfully using outside data to predict workforce trends and target the right talent to meet those trends. With that in mind, the acquisition of TMBC helps ADP further deliver on its talent management strategy of helping companies build better workforces through the strategic use of data and research.
Marcus Buckingham is a noted author and speaker and has been featured as a thought leader on talent management and leadership trends in a range of outlets that span The Harvard Business Review and Forbes to Oprah and Larry King.
"In the world of people-at-work, everyone trusts ADP data, so I leapt at the chance to bring to the ADP ecosystem StandOut's data-based insights and tools on people's talents, engagement and performance," said Marcus Buckingham, co-head, the ADP Research Institute. "At a time when so many companies are clamoring for real-time and reliable people data, when they crave tools that leaders and team members actually want to use, the combination of ADP's scale, security and data-integrity with StandOut's focus on real-world teams, is unique and powerful. I'm so excited to see how many companies and people we can serve."
ADP has helped organizations of all types and sizes for more than 60 years unlock the potential of their workforces. ADP's cloud-based talent portfolio -- which includes recruiting, recruiter training, outsourcing, screening and selection, onboarding, learning, goals, performance, data analytics, succession and compensation -- is expanded in breadth and depth with TMBC's technology, consulting and research.
For more information, visit adp.com/standout.
People Analytics
2017年02月04日
People Analytics
GOOGLE 的HRVP Laszlo Bock 离职创业了！《重新定义团队：谷歌如何工作》的作者
《重新定义团队：谷歌如何工作》一书作者、前谷歌人力运营部高级副总裁、谷歌高级顾问Laszlo Bock先生在2017年元旦正式宣布离职创业。
在BOCK先生任职谷歌（2006-2016年） 担任人力运营部负责人的shi年期间，谷歌的员工数从6000增长到近5万，在全球四十多个国家设立了七十多个分支机构。他帮助谷歌创建了人力运营部，并创建了谷歌（也许是世界上）第一个人才数据分析团队。他撰写的《重新定义团队：谷歌如何工作》一书是用人才数据说话的典范，并揭示了改变未来的工作法则。该书曾获《纽约时报》畅销榜第一名，并在国内HR界引起“重新定义”热潮。他本人曾于2014年被《Human Resource Executive Magazine》评为 十 年内对HR行业影响最深远的 十 人之一。
以下是Bock先生刚刚在LinkedIn上发布的信息：
Today I wrap up over a decade at Google. It's been an honor to be a part of the company's story, and a joy to learn so much from so many Googlers. Even more, it was a privilege to build People Operations along with so many exceptional friends and -- together -- to create the first People Analytics team. As for what's next .... (see Google HR chief Laszlo Bock leaving to launch startup By Ethan Baron / December 13, 2016 at SiliconBeat) And with that, here's to an amazing 2017, for all of you and your loved ones!
Google HR chief Laszlo Bock leaving to launch startup
If an HR manager can be called legendary, it would be Laszlo Bock, the man behind the company culture at Google for the past decade, and a driving force behind the firm’s data-driven hiring and famed free-food cafeterias.
Now, Bock is leaving his post as senior vice president of “people operations” to launch a startup. The enterprise will be in “stealth mode” for a while, Bock said in an email to friends and associates. Bock gave a brief description of the startup.
“It hinges on a few ideas: that every job can have meaning, that if you give people freedom they will amaze you, that applied science (which I dubbed ‘people analytics’ a decade back) can illuminate the truth about what really makes people happy and productive, and that it doesn’t take a ton of effort or investment to make things better … but that you can make work better, everywhere,” Bock said in the email.
Replacing Bock as head of human resources at Google will be Eileen Naughton, who had been the vice president of sales and operations for Google in the U.K. and Ireland, Fortune reported.
Sources told Fortune that Naughton was one of the highest-rated Google managers among employees, and that she was a founding member of internal group Women@Google.
According to Fortune, Bock will retain an advisory role at Google. However, in his email he signed himself off as a “soon-to-be-former” senior adviser at Google and its parent company Alphabet, which would appear to mean he won’t be advising or he’ll be doing so in a more informal capacity.
Bock transformed hiring at Google from a “clunky, arduous process that relied on gimmicks like math puzzles on billboards” to a “smooth engine,” according to online magazine Quartz.
“He helped usher in employee-friendly policies like free meals and shuttle buses, and introduced take-your-parents-to-work days,” the article said.
Bock oversaw data-driven hiring practices at Google that “led it to disregard college prestige in job applications, to dramatically change its pay policies, and even change the way it presents food in its cafeterias,” according to a profile in Quartz last year.
Before arriving at Google in 2006, Bock, who has an MBA from Yale was a vice president of HR at General Electric, and before that, a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
He is the author of “WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead.”
Slack 应战微软协作工具Teams
Dear Microsoft,
Wow. Big news! Congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition.
We realized a few years ago that the value of switching to Slack was so obvious and the advantages so overwhelming that every business would be using Slack, or “something just like it,” within the decade. It’s validating to see you’ve come around to the same way of thinking. And even though — being honest here — it’s a little scary, we know it will bring a better future forward faster.
However, all this is harder than it looks. So, as you set out to build “something just like it,” we want to give you some friendly advice.
First, and most importantly, it’s not the features that matter. You’re not going to create something people really love by making a big list of Slack’s features and simply checking those boxes. The revolution that has led to millions of people flocking to Slack has been, and continues to be, driven by something much deeper.
Building a product that allows for significant improvements in how people communicate requires a degree of thoughtfulness and craftsmanship that is not common in the development of enterprise software. How far you go in helping companies truly transform to take advantage of this shift in working is even more important than the individual software features you are duplicating.
Communication is hard, yet it is the most fundamental thing we do as human beings. We’ve spent tens of thousands of hours talking to customers and adapting Slack to find the grooves that match all those human quirks. The internal transparency and sense of shared purpose that Slack-using teams discover is not an accident. Tiny details make big differences.
Second, an open platform is essential. Communication is just one part of what humans do on the job. The modern knowledge worker relies on dozens of different products for their daily work, and that number is constantly expanding. These critical business processes and workflows demand the best tools, regardless of vendor.
That’s why we work so hard to find elegant and creative ways to weave third-party software workflows right into Slack. And that’s why there are 750 apps in the Slack App Directory for everything from marketing automation, customer support, and analytics, to project management, CRM, and developer tools. Together with the thousands of applications developed by customers, more than six million apps have been installed on Slack teams so far.
We are deeply committed to making our customers’ experience of their existing tools even better, no matter who makes them. We know that playing nice with others isn’t exactly your MO, but if you can’t offer people an open platform that brings everything together into one place and makes their lives dramatically simpler, it’s just not going to work.
Third, you’ve got to do this with love. You’ll need to take a radically different approach to supporting and partnering with customers to help them adjust to new and better ways of working.
When we push a same-day fix in response to a customer’s tweet, agonize over the best way to slip some humor into release notes, run design sprints with other software vendors to ensure our products work together seamlessly, or achieve a 100-minute average turnaround time for a thoughtful, human response to each support inquiry, that’s not “going above and beyond.” It’s not “us being clever.” That’s how we do. That’s who we are.
We love our work, and when we say our mission is to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive, we’re not simply mouthing the words. If you want customers to switch to your product, you’re going to have to match our commitment to their success and take the same amount of delight in their happiness.
One final point: Slack is here to stay. We are where work happens for millions of people around the world.
You can see Slack at work in nearly every newsroom and every technology company across the country. Slack powers the businesses of architects and filmmakers and construction material manufacturers and lawyers and creative agencies and research labs. It’s the only tool preferred by both late night comedy writers and risk & compliance officers. It is in some of the world’slargest enterprises as well as tens of thousands of businesses on the main streets of towns and cities all over the planet. And we’re just getting started.
So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.
— Your friends at Slack
People Analytics
2016年11月03日
People Analytics
招聘文本分析创企Textio，获800万美元A轮融资来源：猎云网（编译：竹子）
Textio，一家分析特定情景中的词汇和语言的创企，今天宣布完成了由Emergence Capital领投的800万美元A轮融资。Cowboy Ventures、Bloomberg Beta和Upside Partnership也参与了此次融资。
Textio的第一款工具瞄准的是人才并购领域如招聘。创始人Snyder发现，某些特定的词汇和设计对应聘者更有吸引力，于是这些预测分析就被吸纳进了Textio的服务里。Textio可以分析一个公司的职务说明、绩效考核与其它备案，并判断这些文案是否可以为公司取得最佳效果。
该软件利用人工智能技术扫描招聘文本信息，然后向公司建议进行调整，以提高该公司吸引能力强的应聘者的机会。比如，有重点句的职位招聘总是比没有的更吸引求职者。Textio的软件还会建议各公司引进更多样化的应聘者。例如女性职场人士通常不会参与办公室内斗，或通常不会从事代码类的工作。
Textio成立于去年秋天，它的两位创始人 Kieran Snyder 和 Jensen Harris 分别是微软和亚马逊的前员工，Kieran Snyder之前致力于科技公司中性别歧视的研究，同时曾在微软、亚马逊任职语言学家，Jensen Harris曾在微软工作过16年。Textio创办后不到5个月，就在今年2月份拿到了150万美元的融资。
Textio主要以三个方面来衡量相关的科技短语：一是申请包含该短语岗位的应聘者人数；二是满足该词语要求技能的应聘者在全部应聘者中的百分比；第三是工作招聘发出后多久能够招到相关的人才。
虽然目前它的用处在于职位招聘，但很明显，这些技术可以被用到其他很多方面，比如邮件、简历以及其他各类信息。如果技术运行良好，理论上它可以为各类文档搭建分数库，这或许也是吸引投资人的地方。
Textio还有其他有价值的过人之处吗？大概就是它的客户了吧。目前使用Textio服务的企业有Twitter、Atlassian、Starbucks、Square和Microsoft等等。自然语言处理技术有广阔的应用领域，这又是对投资人的另一大强烈吸引。
Snyder表示，Textio目前可以识别出超过6万句短语词组，而这一数据还在持续增长。它会研究词汇是以何种方式组合在一起，比如词组中动词的密度和其他语法相关的特性。基于以上种种，最后给出评定分数。
当然，Textio也有不少潜在的竞争对手，诸如IBM Watson理论上也能分析文本并给出类似的结果。不过Snyder表示他们的优势在于专注的内容领域更具体。
Textio, A Startup That Analyzes Text Performance, Raises $8M
Textio CEO Kieran Snyder took a quantitative approach to how language worked in her linguistics studies. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way.
That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in certain scenarios, was born. The company today said it raised $8 million in a financing round led by Emergence Capital. Cowboy Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Upside Partnership also participated in the financing round.
“We had this premise that word processing in text hadn’t been disrupted in a while, from command line to GUI,” CEO Kieran Snyder said. “We had the internet come along, it was about social and sharing, and we think that AI and the set of related technologies is the next big disruptor of text. If you know the performance of a document before it’s ever published then you can fix it before it’s published.”
Textio’s first tool looks at talent acquisition documents — like job postings — to determine how well they will perform among candidates. Certain words and layouts attract more candidates than others, Snyder found, and those predictive analytics are baked into the service. For example, Textio shows that job postings with bullet points tend to perform better than job postings without them.
Right now it’s used for talent acquisition documents, but it’s pretty easy to see that the technology can be applied to documents that include common phrases — such as email, resumes, or other kinds of messages. If the technology works, it can theoretically begin building up scores for those kinds of documents, which is likely what attracted investors to the product and the team.
Another reason it might be so valuable to investors? Its customers. Already Textio is being used by companies like Twitter, Atlassian, Starbucks, Square and Microsoft. Natural Language Processing technology has very broad applications if done right, which makes it an attractive bet for many investors.
Textio recognizes more than 60,000 phrases with its predictive technology, Snyder said, and that data set is changing constantly as it continues to operate. It looks at how words are put together — such as how verb dense a phrase is — and at other syntax-related properties the document may have. All that put together results in a score for the document, based on how likely it is to succeed in whatever the writer set out to do.
Given who’s likely using Textio, it’s important that it feels easy to use — hence the highlighting and dropdown boxes rather than readouts. Snyder said, at its core, Textio can’t feel like a statistics tool, and that’s probably because the kinds of people using it might not always be NLP experts.
Of course, there are potential competitors in the space when it comes to natural language processing. There are tools like IBM Watson that can analyze text and, in theory, pull off a similar result. But Snyder says Textio’s results will be better because they are content-specific — like in the case of talent-acquisition documents.
Source:TC
People Analytics
2015年12月24日
People Analytics
观点：企业级市场召唤一个“真正移动”的时代
编者按 ： 彼得·瓦格纳（Peter Wagner）和马丁·吉尔斯（Martin Giles）都是风险投资公司Wing Venture Capital 的合伙人。
移动设备、云计算和大数据显现出来的优势地位，对人们的生活和工作带来了深刻的影响。但令人遗憾的是，很多在智能手机和平板电脑上运行的企业级应用不能充分发挥这一革命性转型的作用。甚至标榜自己是“移动为先”的某些服务，往往也不能推出新奇的功能来提高生产力和利润。
现在，企业级应用市场的规模达到 1000 亿美元，要想主导这个市场，就必须是做到“真正的移动”（authentically mobile），即如果我们不充分利用移动生态系统的特有属性的话，各项服务将难以完成，甚至不可能完成。
名副其实的真正移动企业级应用数量还很少。但是，一些从事客户关系管理业务的公司（如 Clari 和 Base CRM）和提供人力资源服务的创业公司（如 Yoi），他们的服务体现出了移动真实性的一些特点，这预示着移动行业的未来发展趋势。
相对于传统因循守旧的应用，“移动为先”的应用（优先使用移动应用而不是事后再用）必定是一大进步，因为传统方式只是在移动平台上简单模拟台式机的功能。“移动为先”的服务则提供更加优雅和更加直观的用户界面，可以更加充分地利用智能手机和平板电脑一些的独有功能。例如，我们可以通过传感器和轻便的用户输入设备来储存数据，可以对内容和操作方式进行超个性化的设置，同时这些服务的使用时间随意，对用户的吸引力更大。
但是，“移动为先”的服务主要还是优化现在的工作流程，以适应已有的新平台，而没有开创全新的功能。这是要达到真正移动应用（它们才能带来真正的改变）前所要经历的一个中间阶段。下面的表格概述了一些重要的影响因素。
所谓真正的移动应用，就是说，没有移动设备，工作流程将很难进行。与“移动为先”的服务不同，它们更加注重搜集和分析促进创新体验的数据。若要设计出真正的移动应用，光是专注于移动的创业公司孵化器的纸上谈兵还远远不够，因为企业流程和相应的数据超出了移动获得主导权之前的那个时代的范围。
很多工作人员的手机上都安装了消费类应用，这是真正的移动。例如，Uber 就利用了移动的“及时性”特点，并辅以 GPS 技术来追踪人们的位置。如果在台式机上来运行 Uber 之类的应用，简直是太荒谬了——这种模式可以用来判断一种企业级应用是不是真正具有移动的特点。
一些打入企业市场的消费类应用声称自己实现了真正的移动，至少是部分实现了。例如，Dropbox 吸引用户的地方在于移动用户必备的同步属性。但是，它在台式机上使用的效果也很好，因此这就不是真正的移动了。然而，当 Dropbox 用在其他设备上时，它的重要性就大大显现出来了——Dropbox 的数百万用户清楚地看到了这一点。
还有一些真正的移动消费类应用会以全新的方式来改善劳动力。但是，对于创业公司来说，这也是一个绝好的机会，他们可以为“真正的移动”主导的市场提供个性化产品。估值极有可能达到数十亿美元的公司将是面向知识性人才的。相对于那些面向商店、工厂和医院的工作人员的“低等”应用来说，这些“高等”应用的收费更高，市场空间更广。
“真正的移动”趋势目前还处在发展的初级阶段，但 Slack（以团队沟通协作为基础的移动办公平台）却自我标榜为“原生的移动”，此举说明这一领域还是有很大潜力可挖的。就像 Dropbox 一样，Slack 既能在移动设备上运用，也能在台式机上运用，因此，从严格意义上讲，它并不符合“真正的移动”的标准。但是，它的一些核心功能，如“一体化”的高度集成、多样的数据来源和记录系统，只有在移动环境下才能发挥出特殊的作用。Slack 最多不过就是一个多平台交叉应用，越来越接近“真正的移动”。
一般来说，商业通讯就是在多个应用之间交叉进行。Blue Jeans Network（一家获得 Wing Venture Capital 投资的创业公司）已经推出了一种服务，使员工们可以通过移动设备参加多点式、跨平台的视频会议，并可以彼此之间分享视频画面。展望未来，开发商们可能会开发出真正的移动应用，那时，工作人员就可以轻松地把手机上的视频会议画面传输到会议室或台式机上了。
客户关系管理（CRM）也为“真正的移动”大发展做好了准备。Clari 可以通过手机向销售部门主管发送提醒，确保他们在会面前具有客户或潜在客户的最新信息。它还能提醒他们在外奔走时随时更新交易状态，以便可以快速捕捉和分享数据。Base CRM 则包括一项地理位置功能，可以绘制出用户的联系人地图，提供到达那里的一键式导航。
除了这些至少部分体现了移动真实性的应用开发早期例证，整个客户体验管理（Customer Experience Management）——覆盖售前和售后互动两个方面——将成为那些在企业员工和客户之间打造实时、动态联系的产品的沃土。
另一批真正的移动解决方案将出现在 HR（人力资源）领域，它们正在从相互孤立的《呆伯特》（Dilber）式卡通片，转变为一个数据驱动的整体，与重要业务流程紧密结合。新兴的“人力分析”领域（追踪员工互动等事情）看起来特别具有发展前景。
Yoi 已开始着手改善员工管理的成功率，向新入职的员工提供他们在外出活动及在办公室时所需要的信息。更为重要的是，Yoi 还可以实时捕捉和量化员工的数据，并反馈给部门主管，令其迅速介入，解决员工遭遇的烦恼，或是加速员工学习过程。
Yoi 就是一个令人感兴趣的例证，证明移动应用可以与数据和云端的力量相结合，用于深入揭示一个原本相当晦涩的过程，提高员工留存率。
其他对真正的移动企业级应用做好准备的领域还包括，支付、旅游管理和数字安全。正如我们在之前指出的，有些真正的移动消费类应用将会进入企业级市场，解决一些公司的实际需要。但创业者们也面临着一个激动人心的机遇，为企业及其客户和员工从零开始开发新产品。在新兴的真正移动应用商店内，大量闲置货架正等待新产品的到来。
Mobile First, But What’s Next?
Editor’s note: Peter Wagner and Martin Giles are partners at Wing Venture Capital.
The ascendance of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data is having a profound impact on the lives of workers. Yet many of the business applications that run on their smartphones and tablets still fail miserably to take full advantage of this revolutionary shift. Even services that tout themselves as “mobile first” often fall short of delivering novel functionality that boosts productivity and profit.
The offerings that will come to dominate the emerging $100 billion market for enterprise applications will be those that are “authentically mobile,” a term we use to describe services that would be extremely difficult or impossible to achieve without taking full advantage of the unique properties of the mobile ecosystem.
Truly authentic mobile business applications are still pretty rare. But services from firms such as Clari and Base CRM in customer-relationship management, and from startups such as Yoi in human resources, have elements of mobile authenticity that make them harbingers of what is to come.
Mobile-first applications, which treat mobile use cases as the priority rather than the afterthought, are certainly an improvement over traditional, “pave-the-goat-paths” ones, which simply mimic desktop functionality on mobile platforms. Mobile-first services have more elegant and intuitive user interfaces, and they take greater advantage of some of the unique properties of smartphones and tablets. These include the ability to gather data via sensors and lightweight user inputs, frequent, in-the-moment, “bite size” usage, and hyper-personalization of content and operation.
But mobile-first services still focus on optimizing existing workflows for the new platform in town rather than creating new-to-the-world functionality. They are an intermediate evolutionary stage on the road toward authentically mobile applications, which are true game-changers. The following table summarizes what makes these so powerful.
Authentically mobile applications address workflows that have been frustratingly elusive in the absence of mobile devices. Unlike mobile-first ones, they also place much greater emphasis on the collection and analysis of data, which fuel the innovative experiences they deliver. Conceiving them requires far more than just a “mobile for X” startup incubator whiteboard exercise because the business process and data being tapped were simply out of bounds in the pre-mobile world.
Many workers already have consumer applications on their phones that are authentically mobile. Uber, for instance, takes advantage of the “in-the-moment” property of mobile and leverages GPS to track people’s location. It would be ridiculous to think of developing an app such as Uber for the desktop — an acid test that we can usefully pose when assessing whether a business application is authentically mobile.
Some consumer applications with at least a partial claim to mobile authenticity have already crossed over into business markets. An example is Dropbox, whose appeal is grounded in the mobile must-have property of synchronization. It’s pretty useful on the desktop, so it fails the strict acid test for mobile authenticity. Nevertheless, its value soars when it touches other devices — something that is obvious to its millions of users.
Other authentically mobile consumer apps will empower workforces in novel ways. But there is an exciting opportunity for startups to create products specifically for the corporate market with mobile authenticity at their core. The ones most likely to become multi-billion-dollar businesses will be those designed for knowledge workers. Such “carpeted floor” applications can charge higher prices and target larger markets than “linoleum floor” ones aimed at folk in warehouses, factories and hospitals.
It is still early days here, but the popularity of Slack, a workforce-collaboration tool that bills itself as “mobile native,” hints at the opportunity waiting to be tapped. Like Dropbox, Slack is a powerful tool on desktops as well as mobile, so it doesn’t pass our strict acid test. But some of its core properties, such as its “all-in-one place” hyper-integration with varied data sources and systems of record, are particularly valuable in a mobile environment. It can best be characterized as a multi-platform crossover application with an increasingly strong claim to mobile authenticity.
Business communications in general is a place where more crossover applications will emerge. Blue Jeans Network (a Wing portfolio company) already offers a service that makes it possible for employees to conduct multi-point, cross-platform videoconferences and collaborative screen shares from their mobile devices. Looking ahead, vendors may develop authentically mobile applications that make it simple for workers to, say, transfer a video session easily from a phone screen to a conference room or a desktop.
CRM is also ripe for greater mobile authenticity. Clari can send alerts to sales executives via mobile phones to ensure they have the most recent information related to a customer or a prospect before meetings. It can also prompt them to update the status of their deals on the go so that the data is captured and shared promptly. Base CRM includes geolocation functionality that maps users’ leads and contacts, and offers one-touch driving directions to get to them.
Beyond these very early examples that have at least a partial claim to mobile authenticity, the entire universe of Customer Experience Management, spanning both pre- and post-sales interactions, will be fertile ground for products that create vibrant, real-time tethers between a company’s employees and its clients.
Another cluster of authentically mobile solutions will appear in HR, which is being transformed from the disconnected, anecdotal adjunct of various Dilbert cartoons into a data-driven discipline that is tightly integrated with critical business processes. The fledgling field of “people analytics,” which measures things such as employee engagement, looks especially promising.
Yoi sets out to improve success rates in employee onboarding by providing new hires with information they need while on the move, as well as when they are at their desks. Importantly, the application also captures and quantifies data from employees in real time, feeding it back to managers who can step in swiftly to address any pain points or to speed up a learning process.
Yoi is an interesting example of how a mobile application combined with the power of data and the cloud can be used to shed more light on a rather opaque process and to improve employee-retention rates.
Other domains ripe for authentically mobile business applications range from payments to travel management and cybersecurity. As we noted earlier, some authentically mobile consumer apps will migrate into the business arena to address companies’ needs. But there is an exciting opportunity here for entrepreneurs to create new offerings designed from the ground up for companies, their customers and their workers. Plenty of shelf space is waiting to be filled in the emerging, authentically mobile application store.
来源：techcrunch.com
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People Analytics
2015年05月20日
People Analytics
GoSquared 推新分析工具 People Analytics，帮助企业更好地了解用户需求
就在 GoSquared 庆祝成立 9 周年之际，这家位于伦敦的“创业公司”推出了其迄今最具雄心的一款产品。GoSquared 由詹姆斯·吉尔（James Gill）、詹姆斯·泰勒（James Taylor）、基奥夫·瓦格斯塔夫（Geoff Wagstaff）在他们 14 岁时创建。
GoSquared 以 实时网页分析产品 著称，竞争对手包括 Chartbeat、Google Analytics 以及实时分析领域的其他公司。GoSquared 新产品“People Analytics”旨在解决一个更大的问题，即对传统软件即服务（SaaS）公司存储于多个独立软件上的所有用户数据进行整合，帮助他们更好地了解用户需要。
这些独立软件一般包括内部开发工具、第三方计费系统、桌面支持软件、网页分析工具以及“庞大的”客户关系管理（CRM）系统等，也就是说，若想解决某个客户问题，必须对它们每一个进行单独询问。这种做法不仅费时耗力，还要求员工必须经过一定的培训，才能使用每一个独立软件。
相比之下，PeopleAnalytics 旨在让企业客户可以从单一、直观的界面访问和搜索所有这种“用户级别”数据，最终目标则是让他们可以从“个人”层面与用户建立联系。
GoSquared 联合创始人兼首席执行官詹姆斯·吉尔说：“People Analytics 就是为了将企业所拥有的一切用户数据和信息——当前存在于众多不同工具中的信息——整合到一个地方，供团队里的每一个人轻松搜索、排序和访问。”
“其他工具一直在慢慢瓦解这种创意，也许会向你显示用户的账单历史，或是他们的在线活动，或是支持客户的历史等等。People Analytics 将这块拼图的所有部分都整合在一起，这样，你就有了一个寻找用户信息的明确地方。”
至于这一工具如何在实践中使用，吉尔举了在软件即服务领域支持客户的例子，具体而言，就是向遇到升级问题的客户伸出援手，如果没有 People Analytics，客户必定需要在不同工具上查询信息，如计费系统、内部管理员系统或第三方分析工具。
吉尔解释说：“只要搜索一下客户姓名、电子邮箱地址或用户 ID，你就能获得有关该客户的完整信息，包括他们使用过的设备，之前出现过的错误，以及他们浏览过的页面等等。”
吉尔说，PeopleAnalytics 的另一个潜在用途是产品管理。“通过过滤所有用户的信息，你可以利用 PeopleAnalytics 来解答各类问题，比如‘在所有参与测试的用户当中，有多少激活了 X 功能？’”
这样，产品经理就能知道哪些功能经常被使用，哪些功能很少被使用，因为 People Analytics 会整合单个用户的数据，所以你除了报告数据外，还能对这一数据采取行动，比如将定制产品的电子邮件发送给特定用户。
与此同时，与 GoSquared 庆祝成立 5 周年时的情况不同，23 岁的吉尔称该公司不打算举行派对，会将这种庆祝活动留到公司成立 10 周年庆典上。
GoSquared Launches People Analytics To Help Businesses Get A Better Understanding Of Customers
As GoSquared celebrates its 9th birthday — James Gill, James Taylor and Geoff Wagstaff started the company when they were just 14 — the London-based ‘startup’ is launching its most ambitious product to date.
Best known for its real-time web analytics offering, which competes with Chartbeat, Google Analytics and other companies in the real-time analytics space, GoSquared’s newly released ‘People Analytics’ aims to tackle a potentially bigger problem: namely, consolidating all of the user data a typical SaaS company has stored in multiple and siloed software to help them get a much better understanding of customers.
Those silos typically span internally built tools, third-party billing systems, support desk software, web analytics, and “bulky” CRM systems, meaning that to solve a particular customer’s problem they each need to be interrogated separately. Not only is this time consuming but requires staff to have been trained to use each disparate piece of software.
Instead, People Analytics aims make all of this ‘user
level’ data accessible and searchable from a single and intuitive dashboard, with the ultimate goal to enable businesses to connect with users on a “personal” level.
“People Analytics is about bringing together all the data and information you have on your users – information that currently sits in a handful of different tools – into one place, where it can be searched, queried, and easily accessed by everyone on the team,” explains GoSquared co-founder and CEO James Gill.
“Other tools have been chipping away at this idea, and perhaps show you information about a user’s billing history, or their on-site activity, or their customer support history. People Analytics pieces all of these parts of the jigsaw together so you have one definitive place to look up information on your users.”
As for how this might be utilised in practice, Gill gives the example of customer support in the Software-as-a-Service space, specifically dealing with a customer who is having trouble upgrading, which, without People Analytics, might invariably require looking up information in multiple different tools, such as a billing system, an internal admin system, or third-party analytics tool.
“Just one search for the name, email address or User ID will give you back a full profile with all the info you need on a specific user, including the device they were on, any errors they triggered, and any pages they viewed before they sent their support ticket,” he explains.
Or another potential use-case, says Gill, is product management. “By filtering your entire user base, you can use People Analytics to answer questions such as ‘out of all our trial users, how many people activated feature X?'”.
This enables product managers to know what features are heavily used (or barely used at all) and, because People Analytics includes data on individual users, you can go beyond reporting and actually take action on that data, such as sending a bespoke email to a specific list of users.
Meanwhile, unlike when GoSquared celebrated its 5th birthday, Gill says the startup isn’t planning a party and instead will wait till it reaches 10. “Boy does time fly,” adds the 23-year-old.
来源：techcrunch.com
People Analytics
2015年02月04日
People Analytics
Google想出了一个决定人员晋升的算法，然后就没有然后了......Prasad Setty 是 Google People Analytics 团队的副总裁。7 年前 Google 成立的这支团队的职责是收集和利用数据来支撑公司的管理实践。其使命很简单，即基于数据和分析做出所有的人事决定。在今年 10 月举行的Google re:Work大会上，Setty 介绍了这支团队用科学来进行人力资源管理的一些做法。其结论是，算法虽好，可不能滥用，人事决定终归要有人来决定。
Google 是一个由工程师成立的公司，目前也仍然由工程师统治。这家成千上万的大公司每年都要做出许多的人事决定：应该招谁？提拔谁？最好的人应该给多少薪水？通常 Google 会找 4、5 个资深工程师组成委员会，由每个委员会审查一堆提名，经过很多次的对话后做出决定。Google 的这个人员晋升评审流程相当复杂，要审查的材料和召开的会议太多，以至于连 Google 的会议室都不够用，所以要跑到附近的万豪酒店去开会。
因此，为了帮助减轻审查委员会的工作负担，早期时 People Analytics 团队开发出了一个算法来简化人员晋升的决策流程。这个算法是一个计算晋升可能性的公式，如下图所示，里面考虑了平均绩效、经理推荐以及个人推荐（Google 允许员工自我推荐）三方面的因素（各赋予不同的权重，平均绩效权重最，其次是经理推荐，最后是个人推荐）。
通过与最后的晋升结果比较发现，该算法相当可靠，后台的测试结果很好，经历过多周期后仍表现稳定，其中 30% 的提拔案例决策准确率达到了 90%。团队成员都很兴奋，以为自己因此能够节省委员会 1/3 的工作，让他们腾出时间专注于最困难的决定。
但是结果是那帮人根本不买账，不想用这个模型。因为他们不希望躲在黑箱背后，而是希望自己做出决定。因此这个算法从来都没有用来做过提拔决策。
Setty 得出的教训是人事决策必须由人来决定。不过 People Analytics 仍然可以发挥作用，即用更好的信息辅佐决策者（用模型来检验自己的决策过程），但是不能用算法来替他们做出决策。
而且，这一洞察还帮助推动了 Google 人力资源和管理的办法改进。People Analytics 在很多方面根本性的重塑了 Google 的招聘机制。比方说，现在 Google 已经不再强调 GPA（盖氏人格评估）与毕业学校，而是更看重一些软性的特质，如“谦逊”、“学习能力”等。
People Analytics 还通过数据分析总结出了伟大经理的 8 项特质：
1） 是一位好教练
2） 给团队授权，不做微观管理
3） 对团队成员的成功和个人幸福表达兴趣/担忧
4） 富有效率/结果导向
5） 好的沟通者—懂得倾听和分享
6） 帮助团队成员的职业生涯发展
7） 对团队有清晰的愿景/策略
8） 有重要的技术技能，可帮助团队提供建议
此外，Google 还在内部寻找志愿者开展长期研究，设立了许多数据点来跟踪其数十年的职业生涯中工作表现、态度、信仰、问题解决策略、面临的挑战与抗压性等。尽管尚未确定能有什么发现，但是收集数据研究肯定是利用科学方法来研究人力资源问题的第一步。
[消息来源：qz.com 文章：36氪]
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