Skip to content
UdemyData AnalysisPaid courseIntermediate levelCertificate

Workforce Analytics: Link Workforce to Business Strategies (Udemy.com)

Learn how to align your workforce strategy to business objectives. Johnson & Johnson alumni with 15+ yrs of experience

Created by: Jeff Higgins

Last updated June 2020

icon
What you will learn

  • The business imperatives of aligning workforce to business strategies
  • Understand the definitions and differences between workforce and business strategy
  • Step-by-step guide to align workforce to business strategy

How it compares

Against the other 371 rated Udemy courses in Data Analysis on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 49% of them
  • Reviews720#171 of 372 by number of reviews
  • Length1.5 hoursshorter than 89% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2020earlier than 87% of them

icon
Course Description

To view our complete offering, search for "Jeff Higgins".

More about this Course

The use of workforce analytics by HR professionals is on the rise, but is it translating to better business results? The use of workforce analytics by HR professionals is on the rise, but is it translating to concrete business results?

To ensure that HR prescriptions would lead to the desired business results, organizations will need to make sure that their workforce and business strategies are well linked and aligned. This short course will help you do just this using metrics, KPIs and the science of analytics.

What We'll Cover

  1. Why bother aligning workforce to business strategies

  2. How to use analytics to build a bridge between HR and Finance

  3. A complete guide with examples to linking workforce to business strategies

What This Course is NOT about:

  • How to use R and Python in talent management

  • How to build machine learning program or statistical model

  • How to set up SQL database or connect data from various sources

Course Agenda

Course Agenda

Section 0: Course Introduction

Section 1: Aligning Workforce to Business Strategy

  • Why bother aligning workforce to business strategy

  • Linking workforce to business strategy

  • Building a bridge between HR and Finance

  • A step-by-step guide to link workforce to business strategy

  • Workforce strategy linkage example: Oil & Gas

  • Workforce strategy linkage example: Financial Services

  • Hands-on Exercise: Linking workforce to business strategy

Section 2: Workforce Analytics Review & Next Steps

What Our Students Are Saying

Since 2009, HCMI’s expert training has helped hundreds of organizations strengthen their in-house workforce analytics & planning capability, including many Global 2,000 companies, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and major government entities around the world. 

"I don’t believe in testimonials, however this workshop more than lives up to the expectations. It was very well presented and answered many questions and created more–which is exactly what I needed on our journey in HR metrics." ~ Director Human Resources, Washington Health System

"This course is a ‘must’ for HR professionals. The ability to ‘manage by fact’ is a key competency, not only for business units, but also for HR practitioners." ~ Senior Vice President, HR at OCBC

"The Workforce Analytics Training workshop conducted by the Human Capital Management Institute provided a vast amount of information on various HR metrics. The numerous case studies they discussed during the workshop clearly demonstrated how the metrics can be used in organizations to provide valuable data for making business decisions. I would recommend this workshop to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the utilization of HR metrics." ~ Edison Mission Energy

"The excellent service your company has provided me through your assistance and feedback has given me, as a consumer, more reasons to conduct future purchases from you." ~ Fadi Radi, Napcogroup

"A practical easy to follow training session on workforce analytics. I will recommend this to anyone wishing to make smarter insightful human capital decisions." ~ Head of HR, World Bank Group

"Of all the workshops I’ve attended, this resonated continuously." ~ EDS, a Hewlett-Packard Company

"Very good training ground for HR professional who wanted to drive workforce analytics in the organization." ~Vice President, ASTRO

"Excellent materials that were very well presented." ~ ConocoPhillips Inc.

Course Agenda

Section 0: Course Introduction

Section 1: Aligning Workforce to Business Strategy

  • Why bother aligning workforce to business strategy

  • Linking workforce to business strategy

  • Building a bridge between HR and Finance

  • A step-by-step guide to link workforce to business strategy

  • Workforce strategy linkage example: Oil & Gas

  • Workforce strategy linkage example: Financial Services

  • Hands-on Exercise: Linking workforce to business strategy

Section 4: Workforce Analytics Review & Next Steps

About Human Capital Management Institute (HCMI)

HCMI's mission is to fundamentally change how workforce decisions are made by linking people investments to business outcomes through advanced analytics and dynamic visualization. Nearly a decade ago we pioneered the rigorous financial measurement of Human Capital ROI with the Human Capital Financial Statement (HCF$™ ), a strategic tool for senior leaders to optimize workforce decisions regarding capability, capacity, cost, and performance. 

In 2016, having developed sophisticated workforce analytics tools for 100's of consulting projects across the globe, we pioneered SOLVE™  Workforce Intelligence Software, the first workforce analytics software that links workforce investments to business outcomes. And in 2018, we create the HCMI Online Academy to provide on-demand global access to our world-class workforce analytics and workforce training curriculum.

Today, HCMI and SOLVE™ remain industry leaders. With our headquarters in the thriving technology hub of L.A.'s Silicon Beach and a presence 3 continents, we continue to innovate our technology and services to provide organizations with the actionable intelligence to maximize the return on their workforce investments.

Helping analysts, HR professionals and business leaders develop their Workforce Analytics and Planning capability since 2009.

icon
Udemy Discount

The discount is applied through our link. Open the course from here and Udemy's current promotional price is applied at checkout on most courses, no code to type.

Some courses are excluded from Udemy's promotions. If the price does not drop, clear your browser cookies and use the button again.

icon
Instructor Details

Jeff Higgins

Jeff Higgins is a global thought leader with 25 years combined workforce planning, analytics and finance experience supporting Fortune™ 500 companies. Jeff has helped organizations around the world quantify the ROI of workforce decisions and realize cost saving opportunities of up to $1.0 billion USD. Jeff is both a former senior HR executive and former CFO, and a regular speaker at HR events.

Previously, Mr. Higgins worked in finance at Johnson & Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Klune Industries and a senior HR leader at Countrywide Financial, IndyMac Bank, and Inform, a leading analytics software co. Jeff is on the SHRM Global Standards Committee on human capital, the Center for Talent Reporting board and founding member, PwC Saratoga Institute advisory council.

icon
More Data Analysis courses

Free

$79.99

$12.99

$74.99

$69.99

Free

icon
Reviews

4.5

720 ratings on Udemy

Select a bar to show only those reviews.Select the bar again to show every rating.

By TOAN TRAN on 5/29/2026

This is an amazing course for HR Leaders. It provided me with a incredible view point about analytics under HR and Finance's perspectives. I strongly recommend all HR leaders, all HR analysts to take this fantastic course.

By Ngo Tran Anh Thu on 1/23/2026

I think this course brought me many good insights about how to use appropriate metrics to measure what i want. Quite surprisingly good for a course of 4 years ago

By B`tara Linggamurti Nisditya Pramana on 8/13/2025

clear message an clarity on the importance of workforce analytics in business process

By Anonymized User on 12/17/2024

started getting interest after heard about the 2 conflict interests of Cost optimization and best talent onboarding

By Cherryl Ann Trinidad on 10/15/2024

Fantastic course. I appreciate the assignment which provided an avenue to apply what was learned. There are some links that do not work, specifically the ones in the "Next steps" and the SCHM article. I hope someone will look into that.

By Beth Reed on 10/1/2024

As a former finance person now turning HR person (just like the instructor), I completely understood where he was coming from. Don't come to a business meeting asking for money if you aren't prepared to justify the expenditure(s) with an ROI.

By Pooja Mishra on 3/11/2021

Yes it is a good match. Pace is good and I am being able to connect it with my work experiences

By Tiana Randriantsoa on 11/28/2020

Very good course I have been awaiting for a while. Concise, extremely well structured and right to the point. Fortunately, I also bought the complementary course on "Workforce Analytics for HR" and would be happy to get both certificates shortly.

By Natasha Barrow on 8/13/2020

Would be helpful to start building in exercises at this stage as there is a lot of information to take in.

By Santosh Pawar on 5/8/2020

It was good course with rational content in it. Can be made more interactive or simpler with help of info-graphics.

Showing all 10 reviews on CourseDuck

Read all 720 reviews on Udemy

icon
Quality Score

No CourseDuck member has rated this course yet. Taken it? Give each part a thumbs up or down.

Content Quality
/
Video Quality
/
Qualified Instructor
/
Course Pace
/
Course Depth & Coverage
/

Overall Score : 90 / 100