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Why General Linear Models?

General Linear Models (GLMs) can track multiple factors in a ‘Human Capital’ business initiative. We can determine how likely it is that any factor significantly affected a business metric and, if so, how significant the effect is. Typically, we report effects when we have a 95% certainty of its impact.

The average corporation does not use General Linear Models to do their own ROI studies because GLMs are difficult to use, requiring special sets of expertise to set up the data, run the analysis, interpret the results, and present them in cogent financial and business terms. Our experienced analysts, using our custom software, are able to meet this challenge in quickly and effectively.

For a more in-depth discussion of the science and math involved, please see ourWhite Paper »

Isolating the Effect of the Initiative

We use three important pieces of information in our statistical model to determine the impact of the initiative and disentangle it from other events:

  • First, the performance of a group of participants is compared to the performance of a group of non-participants.
  • Second, the prior performance of participants and non-participants, using the same business metric, is integrated into the statistical models.
  • Third, the time period for the data collection is taken into account.

Our proprietary methodology allows us to adjust for any patterns in selecting participants for the initiative, and changes that occur over time in the business environment.

What Are the Results?

Rigorous statistical analysis, explained in plain business English. The Results »