How CEOs and CHROs Can Connect People to Business Strategy

It is sometimes said that a company’s most important assets—its employees—walk out the door each night. Yet research repeatedly shows that CEOs often know less about these assets than they know about the fleet of trucks in the company parking lot.

Data about the workforce isn’t as big a reason for this as it was in the past. With good intentions to build better people strategies, more HR teams today collect data and report metrics about the corporate workforce. The question is whether CEOs are using these metrics the way they use financial, marketing, or supply chain metrics to make strategic business decisions.