Customer Need

With over 50,000 employees, the customer’s HR department already faced significant challenges: even routine tasks were long, repetitive, and tedious. In recent years, these issues were compounded by challenges such as the need to address possible attrition and difficulty identifying future leaders in a diverse workforce.

 

They needed a digital solution to predict potential employee departures and identify leadership potential – based on data, not biased evaluations. Eventually, the goal was to increase employee retention, retain institutional knowledge within the company, and reduce reliance on manual processes and subjective evaluations.

AI and predictive analytics for human capital management and human resources, location UAE Middle East, HCM, HR, Technologies Dataiku, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI, python, flight risk prediction, identifying high potential employees, succession planning

Our Approach

We developed a custom predictive analytics solution powered by AI and machine learning algorithms. It includes two predictive models that automate the identification of employees likely to leave within 6/12/18 months and highlight those with high leadership potential.

 

Our approach included:

  • Exploratory data analysis
    Conducting statistical analysis, visualising trends, and detecting outliers to understand workforce patterns.
  • Data preparation
    Building a unified data repository consolidating HR data to ensure high-quality, clean data for predictive modelling and excluding redundancy.
  • Prediction pipeline
    Implementing an automated pipeline that generates monthly forecasts and retrains models, using a Champion-Challenger approach to select the best-performing algorithms. Predictions are stored in a Dataiku dataset (SQL table). They serve as a baseline for the Power BI dashboards which visualise the data for actionable insights.

Customer Success

Implementing the predictive analytics solution has transformed the customer’s HR processes. The company now has early visibility into potential employee attrition, enabling proactive retention strategies.

 

Additionally, the automated identification of leadership potential has streamlined succession planning, reducing manual efforts and bias, and thus ensuring a more objective and data-driven selection process for competent leaders in critical roles.

 

By automating these processes, the customer’s HR teams save time and resources as they no longer need to manually process biased or inaccurate survey data. Instead, the ML models provide non-biased, up-to-date information automatically, with a desired frequency.

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