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Lisa Meehan
Org Chart products present visual context to the organisational structure and have been around for decades, yet HR teams and managers have never been satisfied with these products - why? The real challenge is not drawing an org chart; the biggest challenge is in assembling the right data. One Model's people analytics platform already does this by blending and automatically updating data from across multiple systems, handling employees, contractors and vacancies, properly dealing with time and date-effective data, applying detailed role-based permissions, and providing rich analytical insights and employee-level details in the same user experience. So we've included these technologies and launched One Model's Org Chart creator, an innovative new feature to solve Org Charting once and for all. Why are Organisational Charts Important? The basics. Organisational charts visually represent the company's structure providing clear lines of authority and business reporting. Employees can see their direct supervisor, who they report to and who to contact if a work-related issue arises. Managers and business leaders can visualise the workload of their teams and individuals and easily understand the span of control. Org Charts can also help with restructures and promoting company strategy and goals. For HR managers, Org Charts give visibility into which roles need filling in the organisation and areas for new positions. However, the traditional HR Org Chart only gives you a limited set of information. It tends to be highly static and easily outdated, whereas the One Model org chart includes analytical insights and employee-level detail and the data is automatically updated nightly. What You Get When You Combine People Analytics and Org Chart One Model’s Org Chart provides not only a visual representation of your company's structures, for example by Supervisory, Managerial, Organisational Units, Cost Centers, Locations etc. but it blends and automatically updates data from across multiple systems making it really simple to explore and discover your insights using these structural or hierarchical views. Metrics (e.g. Span of Control, Retention Rates, Ready Successors and Engagement Index), as well as dimensions (e.g. Gender, Employment Status) and detailed column data (e.g. Employee ID, Position Number, Date of Birth and Hire Date), can all be included with the Org Chart providing rich analytical insights and employee level detail. The Org Chart can be configured to include a deep linking capability that takes you from a data item in the chart to that record in the source system. This saves tons of time with bookmarks, copying URLs, and otherwise navigating through source systems and redirects. You can pin an Org Chart to your Storyboard for sharing and communicating your insights with the business, and One Model has also ensured that your data access and role-based permissions are automatically applied to control what data elements a user is allowed to view. This ensures sensitive and restricted data remains anonymous. Genius. Key Features of One Model’s new Org Chart Whether you are managing HR resources, onboarding new employees, tracking team KPI’s or planning out hierarchy changes, One Model’s organisational chart software helps you visualise your company structure whilst providing inline insight to identify potential problem areas and make data-driven decisions. Additionally, an org chart can provide detailed level information, including employee photos, contact information, position information etc. which can improve clarity and communication for a business. In the long run, organisational charts can save businesses time and money by helping to avoid problems before they occur. Here are some key features of One Model’s new Org Chart: Show Any Hierarchy (e.g., Supervisor, Managerial, Org Units, Cost Centers, Locations) Drill Down at Any Level Include Metrics (e.g., Span of Control, Retention, Ready Successors, Engagement) and Detailed Column Data (e.g., Employee ID, Position Number, Hire Date) Search the Chart Time Filter Pan and Zoom Expand and Collapse Wrapped in Existing Role-Based Security Embed in Storyboards Export to PowerPoint Want to see One Model's Org chart maker in action?
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Tony Ashton
April 2022 Product Update A key part of One Model's product vision is to democratize AI in HR with the use of advanced analytics, so that everyone can make better, more informed decisions. This is made possible by seamlessly embedding machine learning and AI capability within our Storyboards and putting embedded insights in the hands of all users, particularly HR Business Partners and People Leaders.. By giving people analytics teams the most transparent and ethical machine learning tools for HR data analysis, forecasts and projections can better inform people decisions. Building responsible AI dramatically reduces bias and other negative outcomes that can taint decisions supported by legacy HR systems. One Model now has the most trustworthy AI in HR because we have focused on the democratization of machine learning and built in transparency at every point in the process. Along the way, we've made the People Analytics Data Mesh concept a reality with features like deep linking, which responsibly extends people analytics to the rest of the organization while saving considerable time navigating and swapping data between them. Be sure and contact us to learn more about this important release of One AI. Let's dig in and learn more. Delivering Actionable Analytics Through Deep Linking One Model’s People Data Cloud™ platform helps customers pull data together from across all their disparate systems into a unified analytics workspace. We have now delivered a "deep linking" capability, which lets you create a dynamic hyperlink from data within One Model Storyboards back to the customer’s own enterprise applications. These universal links work across the product to take you back to your original source. It's one of those ultra-convenient features that, from a practical perspective, save tons of time that was traditionally spent navigating between systems, copying and pasting links, searching for corresponding records, and so on. For example, in One Model you might be viewing a Storyboard to do with Talent Acquisition. Now you are able to configure specific data within the Storyboard, such as requisitions, or candidates with a deep link, meaning you click through into the source system, e.g. Greenhouse, or Smart Recruiters to open details of the requisition, or candidate. This is the essence of actionable analytics. We developed this in collaboration with a number of customers and this capability works for any systems that support deep linking. There are lots of different scenarios, for example linking to Employee Profiles or Vacant Positions in your HRIS, viewing details of people in a succession pool, and tracking progress on learning goals. Connect with our team to discuss other scenarios for your company. So Storyboards are now, in essence, meshed with source data systems, wherever that data might exist in the enterprise. Would you like to see these features live? Sign up for a Demo: Watch the Video Overview. We're Putting Ethical People Predictions into Even More Hands with One AI version 2 One AI is responsible for artificial intelligence and machine learning capability within People Data Cloud™, and its hallmark is ethical outcomes. This release represents a significant step toward One Model’s mission to democratize AI by making transparent, ethical machine learning in human resources and people analytics. Output from One AI has been overhauled to allow for richer storyboards. Consumers of these storyboards can fully understand the quality, drivers, and methodology used to generate each prediction. A highly-advanced new forecasting capability is available through One AI v2. It's embedded in Storyboards and is an additional option to the current forecaster. Advanced Forecasting brings seasonality and changepoints along with a range of other substantial improvements under the hood. It's a foundational predictive analytics capability for One Model. The HR and data science communities can expect even more exciting features like this moving forward. One AI users are getting more accurate, trustworty forecasts, richer historical analysis, and a range of performance and stability improvements. New outputs and changepoints deliver immediate value to analysts and decision makers. Taylor Clark, Head of Data Science For more information: 1. Related Deep Linking Release Notes April 6, 2022 Release April 22, 2022 Release 2. Request a Demo
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Tony Ashton
As you saw in the last One Model product update we are really focused on delivering a compelling capability for Storytelling with Data. Our storyboarding capability is designed to harness the power of One Model’s amazing Data Orchestration and OneAI platforms to unify your data and provide predictive insights to drive better decisions and business outcomes. Key storyboarding capabilities we covered in the last release included new data visualizations, new data visualization options/control, filter search, geo-mapping and the ability to Export to PowerPoint. In solving people analytics challenges one of the most useful tools at our disposal is correlations. Understanding if two variables are significantly related is critical to drive understanding and well designed interventions. However, something I rarely hear is someone say: "I got into HR because I really love statistics". An important part of our Storyboard vision is to democratize AI and provide statistical decision support across the entire One Model platform. In the last update we shared details of our real-time forecasting within Storyboards and building on this, we have been working on delivering a wide range of statistical services in the hands of all users. With One Model you have long had the ability to create scatterplots to visually understand the relationship between two variables and identify notable clusters or trends. Within a scatterplot you now have the ability to run a Correlation or show a Line of Best Fit to determine the statistical relationship between two metrics to answer questions such as “What is the relationship between employee engagement and retention?” Taking this to the next level, we have created an explanatory layer that interprets the statistics of the correlation and provides a simple explanation for anyone to understand the results. The explanation appears as text sitting above the chart and describes whether or not there is a correlation, to what degree, as well as the likely significance. Additionally, if you click the info icon you will be able to get more details about the actual correlation and significance values, the formula and definition of the metrics in play and details of how to understand correlations and significance. There is also a link to an even more comprehensive guide in our help portal. This is a game changer for HR, managers, or anyone using data to make decisions. For the Data Scientists and Statisticians out there, OneAI uses an automatic heuristic to determine which correlation metric to display to the user. This heuristic chooses between the Pearson Correlation Coefficient, the Spearman Ranked Coefficient, and the Cramer’s V Statistic. If both incoming datasets are numeric, and the relationship between those datasets is linear, then the Pearson Correlation Coefficient will be displayed to the user. If the two incoming datasets are numeric but not linearly related, then the Spearman Ranked Coefficient is used. If the two datasets are categorical, a Cramer’s V Statistic is displayed. We have also added an option to specifically pick what correlation will be used for a given visualization if you want to override the automatic heuristics from One Model. These are just a couple of examples of how One Model is taking Storytelling with Data to the next level with embedding insights. We have a lot more capability like this coming in our product roadmap and we can’t wait to get it into your hands. Here’s a quick video showcasing the latest Embedded Insights within One Model. One Model provides a people analytics platform that pulls together all your workforce data into one place for faster, better, evidence-based workforce decisions through flexible storyboards and advanced machine learning.
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Tony Ashton
One Model customers receive regular product release updates, but it’s been a little while since the last broader blog post, so let’s chat about what’s been happening with the One Model product recently. One maxim I feel holds true for all business, but particularly product management is that a proven track record matters more than promises. One Model’s product development velocity is formidable and I’m super proud of the One Model team and thankful to our great customers for their ideas, active collaboration and partnership. Geo-mapping The big news early in 2020 was our new User Experience (UX) and Storyboards framework. This has been warmly embraced by customers and really made a difference to how people analytics are deployed to decision makers. Leaning into the new UX we delivered a new geo-mapping capability that became particularly important through 2020 given the massive shifts in how work gets done and understanding where everyone lives and works. The One Model data platform really came into its own as customers were loading unique data to help deal with the massive changes underway (e.g. data such as targeted employee surveys, office occupancy, collaboration etc.) Forecasting OneAI (One Model’s Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Predictive capability) is best in class and unique in the People Analytics space. Joe Grohovsky wrote a really nice overview of OneAI recently so check it out if you want to learn more. A big part of our product vision is to also democratize AI and provide tactical decision support across the entire One Model platform. Leveraging OneAI’s powerful forecasting engine we added a fast real-time forecaster within Storyboards for all users. One Model’s forecasting runs in real-time and has interactive support for interpreting the data providing confidence intervals and details of the underlying forecast algorithm. Filter Search We kicked off 2021 with a major enhancement to how users can navigate analytical dimensions with a powerful filter search capability. This is a really fast way to find items within large multi-level dimensions and works for any dimension you add to the Storyboard filter bar. Export Storyboard to PowerPoint While most of the business world works online, in most business meetings everything still gets distilled into a slide-based presentation of some sort. To help customers more easily leverage content from One Model for these presentations we have developed an ability to export a Storyboard to PowerPoint slides. We chose this format because it is compatible by most common presentation platforms such as Google Slides. Data Visualization We have also been working hard on our underlying data visualization capability and completely replaced our framework for charting. The new charting framework provides a powerful new platform to extend One Model’s visualization library for customers to deliver tailored insights. In the first instance we are delivering all the capability available in Storyboards today, but we have also taken the opportunity to add some finesse to the visualizations and a range of new features, such as: a significant increase in the range of configurability options for charts that can all be applied directly from within the Storyboard edit page changes made in the design panel happen instantly making it a much faster, more intuitive experience. As well as all current settings we have included some new options and will be adding more based on customer input. Notable new features include the ability to control chart axis scaling, axis min/max, data label formatting & positioning, legend positioning, metric styling (lines, columns, bars, area etc.) bar width & padding. We have also improved the interactivity and hover/highlighting experience. once you have set everything just how you like it, you can also duplicate your tiles to speed up content creation and retain all of your formatting settings as you go. These are just a few of the major highlights of One Model’s recent innovations. Things move fast, so watch this space for more exciting product updates soon. Thanks again to our amazing team and customers for the close collaboration to achieve our shared vision. One Model provides a people analytics platform that pulls together all your workforce data into one place for faster, better, evidence-based workforce decisions through flexible storyboards and advanced machine learning.
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Tony Ashton
Every two weeks or so One Model customers receive our product release notes and learn about all of the innovations flowing from One Model’s R&D teams. This blog series is aimed at broadening the audience to share the thinking behind our product vision and signal what’s on the horizon. The biggest product development effort we have been working on recently relates to our updated user experience (UX). Key to this design is a deep understanding of who our users are and in a future post I’ll write some more about the different personas we consider when designing our product. New Navigation Bar You’ll immediately notice the main application control center is now found at the top of the screen instead of on the left. More than just an aesthetic change, this is part of a new way of working that will deliver many more new features in the future. In this first release it anchors all existing a new capability seamlessly together. Storyboards Storyboards replace Dashboards, but a Storyboard is more than just a Dashboard with a fancy new name. This is the start of a whole new way of sharing and communicating analytical insights. From day one Storyboards will provide full backward compatibility with all of our customers’ existing Dashboards, but with that as a baseline we are moving to a whole new world of capability that is focused on surfacing insights engaging stakeholders and driving action. Simplicity remains the overriding design principle for Storyboards. While the One Model platform is dealing with massive complexity; bringing together data from a vast array of different systems and generating a unified view of all that information, a core tenant of our product vision is to deliver an elegant user experience focused on the needs of our different users. Storyboard Filter Bar Filtering is a fairly straight-forward analytical concept, but it can be an overwhelming experience for the casual user, so we have created a whole new filtering experience that aims to provide a lot more control for the power user and greater focus and simplicity for the casual user. For the Storyboard designer we have created an ability to control the filtering experience for end-users. A Storyboard can have the most common / relevant filters positioned at the top of the Storyboard for easy use by end-users. End-users of the Storyboard can use the filtering controls provided for them and save their favorite sets of filters. Say you are a HR Business Partner and you are supporting two or more different business units and each of these have a different workforce makeup. You can have a filter set saved for each business unit allowing you to quickly jump between them in the context of one Storyboard and get a tailored experience with exactly the right business focus. If you are a power user you have the ability to add more filtering controls to the Storyboard. For all users the actual controls for selecting filters is super clean with new controls we spent a lot of time developing. Storyboards Library What we now refer to as the ‘classic’ Dashboard menu was a simple hover menu with a long scrolling list of Dashboards grouped into categories. The new Storyboards Library is a dedicated page that lists all of your Storyboards (including anything originally created as a classic Dashboard). You can manage and modify all Storyboard settings from this one page, e.g. sort, search, share, launch, copy, embed. The new UX is available for customers to beta test today. I want to send a massive thank you to all of our customers who have generously shared their time and provided us with incredibly important real-world input into the designs and refinement through the beta test phase - your partnership is invaluable. Huge thanks also to everyone in One Model as this is a collaborative project across all areas of the business. This first major release includes a lot of subtle changes to improve the intuitiveness of the application, so I’m only calling out the biggest changes in this article. The updated One Model user experience is the start of a series of innovations designed to improve the overall usability of the application based on the most requested feature requests from customers with a focus on driving end-user adoption and insight to action. We’ve only scratched the surface in this article and will share more soon. Fancy taking a look at the new release?
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