When you survey the most frequent users of analytics and metrics in the corporate world, not surprisingly, you find that HR ranks at the very bottom.
Compared to finance, which is ranked No. 1, human resources compares poorly with only half of its functions being classified as advanced users and three times more HR functions are classified as non-users.
HR shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the executive team came in No. 2 because they (along with finance) are at the forefront of demanding more metrics and analytics from HR. The remaining business functions, operations, R&D, marketing, and sales all had a higher percentage of advanced metrics users than HR in this excellent 2013 AMA/i4cp study.
via Why HR Needs to Get Serious and Adapt Workplace Analytics.