Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital

by Professor John W Boudreau, Peter M. Ramstad

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.

Genres: Business, Historical Romance, Nonfiction

258 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2007

Reviews

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the concept, hate the name "Talentship." Can we just say talent management? I cant wait to find a place where I can use these ideas IRL.

[Aanu · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book focused on perspective of value creation from HR thru Talentship. The real case examples were very interesting and made it easy to comprehend the concepts. Wish there were more examples from across the World to cover the cross cultural aspect and less repetitive lines.

[Chris Gottlieb]

Breakthrough framework to manage talent, not just perform HR functions: Applies business discipline to traditional HR functions in innovative ways, following a framework that lets you focus on managing pivotal talent in your organization. How to work through the logic layer and analyze your organization's business strategy to gain talent insights, before ever looking at a metric. If you think attrition metrics are valuable, your eyes will be opened to the vast possibilities you're not yet seeing. Beyond HR is the inevitable future, the question is whether you'll be leading, following, or left behind.

[Shawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a bit of a bias here since I helped edit it, but I feel this is the best HR book since HR Champions over ten years ago. Beyond HR strengthens the vision of the strategic role of the HR Profession. I've been utilizing these concepts since 2000 in HR organizations and have seen the changes it has been able to create.