To make an improvement, you must start with measuring what you have. To truly know the impact of a change, you must evaluate pre and post. But to make the best decisions, you must discover the seemingly unknowable. It’s not impossible, it just requires that you gather lots and lots of data. This is where analytics comes in...

That is the start of the guest post I wrote for Renegade HR, where the motto is to "recruit great people and inspire them to do amazing things that drive your business." Chris Ferdinandi, the wise author of Renegade HR, thinks you should use your employees as guinea pigs to accomplish that. I do too. To read more, get the rest of it here: http://renegadehr.net/guest-post-analytics-hr/