This presentation will define ‘Big Data’ and its impact on organizational decision-making.  It will then focus on defining talent development processes that house big data and identifying data sources and classification of metrics to transform data into wisdom through timely, credible, predictive analytics.
 
Learning Objectives:

1) Define ‘Big Data’ and its impact on business
2) Provide ‘Big Data’ fundamentals for understanding and context
3) Discuss ‘Big Data’ in the context of L&D and Talent Development
4) Provide examples and suggestions to L&D and Talent managers to leverage ‘Big Data’

Jeffrey Berk is Chief Operating Officer for KnowledgeAdvisors. KnowledgeAdvisors is a human capital analytics solutions and technology firm that helps organizations measure, communicate and improve the impact of their people by better managing processes through reliable metrics. Jeffrey works closely with clients to optimize their talent development investments through measurement and analytics tools. Jeffrey, a CPA, is also an adjunct professor of management at Loyola University and author of the book Champions of Change: The Manager's Guide to Sustainable Process Improvement and co-author of the book Human Capital Analytics: Measuring and Improving Learning and Talent Impact.