Business Insights Guide

Frequently Asked

What is Business Insights?

Business insights is the ability to apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

For HR professionals, that means understanding the business, customers, products and financials of our operations and using that insight to apply it to Human Resources strategies, policies and practices.

What does this mean for HR?

• Knows how businesses work and how organizations make money; and the relationship between financial performance and talent decisions • Keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, with the competition, and in the marketplace; understand how these factors influence HR management.

• Uses knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in the market to guide actions.