Harrison Withers | MIX Hackathon

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on The Business Value of Joy—a Maverick Hangout with Richard Sheridan

I've had the chance to work with Rich and Menlo on a project and I've been a fan ever since. Can't wait to grab the book! More

2 years 10 months ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Adapting to Business Metrics to Build Credibility and Trust

I sent in the hack Monday the 12th but I don't see it here, Was I suposed to do something different? More

2 years 11 months ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers posted Adapting to Business Metrics to Build Credibility and Trust

2 years 11 months ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Adapting to business metrics to build trust

Measurement comes in many forms, HR is often the gate keeper of measuring their own effectiveness, and through performance management, the "effectiveness" of people. What HR often fails to to do is to... More

2 years 11 months ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Adapting to business metrics to build trust

Thank you John, Happy to have you aboard the team. More

3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers liked Draw a line in the sand, Baseline TCOW now.

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers liked Adapting to business metrics to build trust

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Adapting to business metrics to build trust

I assume you mean how do we structure a situation inside a corporate entity to define what metrics will be used and what they are comprised of? One way or another you have to build enough credibility ... More

3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Adapting to business metrics to build trust

There's a whole evolution of being able to use metrics, but we have to start somewhere. My other mini hack is to gain a meaningful Total Cost of Workforce TCOW metric as a baseline. Leveraging that as... More

3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Why Big Data Will Never Beat Human Intuition

The problem with calling it "big" data is that it implies that big means more when really all we wanted all along was "better" data. Having data never forces you to do anything about it, and certainly... More

3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Predictive Analytics

Now were talking! When we start getting predictive and using data to anticipate changes in market conditions, that is the very definition of adaptability. This is not a quick or easy thing to get into... More

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers liked Predictive Analytics

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers posted Draw a line in the sand, Baseline TCOW now.

3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Recovery of Basic Values

You are right. We can't be taken seriously as strategic thinkers if we don't have the basic level of control-based processes and services firmly handled, executed, and continuously improving. It is fu... More

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on accept to be challenged

Right on! we need to encourage the hard questions. If you aren't solving problems, you aren't providing strategic value. If you aren't providing strategic value, you are providing a service that gets ... More

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3 years 1 week ago

Harrison Withers Harrison Withers commented on Working for the Customer not 'The Man'

This one caught my eye. I've been doing some mini hacking of my own with my friends by asking what they thought of HR at their organizations, and overwhelmingly i got the back that not only that they ... More

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Harrison Withers Harrison Withers liked Eliminate HR

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Adapting to Business Metrics to Build Credibility and Trust

Embracing the principles of Autonomy & Trust and Openess & Transparency, this hack aims to establish the credibility and value of HR as a business partner by adapting the language and measurem

By Harrison Withers on July 17, 2021

__autonomy & trust

Openness & Transparency

credibility

metrics

human capital measurement

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Draw a line in the sand, Baseline TCOW now.

TCOW or Total Cost Of Workforce in and of itself is meaningless, however it is absolutely fundamental to almost every metric calculation that show movement in investments in people, or Return on People (ROP). It's also very difficult to calculate without agreement from HR, finance, and line of business on...

By Harrison Withers on June 21, 2022

Adapting to business metrics to build trust

Looking at the principles of Autonomy & Trust and Openess & Transparency, my mini hack aims to to establish the credibility and value of HR as a business partner by adapting the language and measurment principles of the core business. As long as HR continues to measure itself with the...

By Harrison Withers on June 21, 2022

autonomy & trust

Openness & Transparency

credibility

metrics

human capital measurement

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Trust

As many here have pointed out, there is a maturity continum that all HR organizations must grow through. It starts with a control and transaction based serivice model that only reacts to business. Largely seen as a center of cost, the business sees little value in agility of a immature...

By Harrison Withers on May 13, 2022