The document discusses John Falcetta's recommendation of a David Bernstein article on big data for human resources professionals. Falcetta agrees with Bernstein that simply having big data does not make one an expert analyst, and that knowledgeable people are still needed to make connections from the data. The document also contains statements from Falcetta about redefining the human resources mission to promote growth, execution, and values.

1. And
John J. Falcetta

2. John Falcetta highly recommends
David Bernsteins article on BIG DATA
for human reources professionals.
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3. And
John Falcetta highly recommends
David Bernsteins article on BIG DATA
for human reources professionals.
Just as having a saw doesn‟t make you
an expert carpenter,having Big Data
doesn‟t make you an expert analyst.

4. John Falcetta cant agree more with
Bernstein.
A recent article in the Harvard
Business Review, titled Big Data‟s
Human Component, has reinforced
what I‟ve been
thinking for some time.

5. John Falcetta cant agree more with
Bernstein.
A recent article in the Harvard Business
Review, titled Big Data‟s Human
Component, has reinforced what I‟ve been
thinking for some time. While the
industry is getting excited about Big Data
being the “next great tool,” it‟s nothing
without knowledgeable people making
the essential connections.

6. Or as software architect Grady Booch
famously
stated: “A fool with a tool is still a
fool.” And John Falcetta agrees, in a
way, "A fool with a tool is just a tool."

7. JOHN J. FALCETTA an unstoppable
force at the frontier of global human
resources leadership; driven by vision
enterprise value creation and „edge‟.

8. JOHN J. FALCETTA redefining the
human resource mission to accelerate
growth, promote execution and
advance corporate values.

9. Sequestration's Effect on Professional Employment
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly
employment report for January, it also released revisions to data for
all of 2012, revisions that were remarkably more positive than what
had been previously reported. In total, 647,000 more jobs were
created in the United States last year than BLS reports had indicated.
While that is only about 0.41 percent of total U.S. workforce, it
significantly alters the estimate of year-over-year growth. As of
January, before the adjustment, total employment year-over-year
was up less than 1.2 percent. With the adjustment, average growth in
2012 grew to more than 1.5 percent, in line with the 40 year average,
and well above the 20 year average of 1.1 percent annual growth. In
fact, in the last 10 years employment has only grown an average of
0.3 percent per year. By these metrics, 2012 was at least an average
year for employment growth and in recent history was actually
above average.

10. This year, however, is already presenting new
challenges and changing dynamics. The debt
crisis in Europe has backed off from the
cliff, putting a pin back in one of the largest
potential economic grenades on the horizon.
Yet, the cost-cutting effects from sequestration
appear increasingly unavoidable and will in the
coming months have measurable consequences
across the military, military
support, research, education and other sectors
that rely heavily on government support.