Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital »

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.

Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value. Illustrations from companies such as Disney, Boeing, and Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship, that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points and the optimal talent and organization decisions that address them.

A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points and connect them to talent decisions, showing how today's "HR" can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage.

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
The Essential Evolution: Personnel, Human Resources, Talentship     1
A Decision Science Applied to Talent: Understanding the Necessary Components     25
The HC BRidge Framework: Pivot-Points in Impact, Effectiveness, and Efficiency     47
Impact in Strategy Analysis: Finding the Strategy Pivot-Points     71
Impact in Organization and Talent: Linking Strategic Pivot-Points to Structures and Roles     97
Effectiveness in Performance and Potential: Aligning Pivotal Interactions and Actions Through Culture and Capacity     119
Effectiveness in Policies and Practices: Creating the Strategic Portfolio of Talent Programs     141
Efficiency in Organization and Talent Investments: Acquiring and Deploying Resources to Optimize the Talent Portfolio     169
Talent Measurement and Analytics: Beyond Measures to the LAMP     187
Making Talentship Work: How the HR Evolution Becomes a Practical Reality     215
Notes     235
Bibliography     245
Index     249
About the Authors     257