Explores the importance of effectively managing and measuring workforce investments to enhance strategic success. Exposes students to how human capital can become a critical source of competitive advantage, uncovering the limits of traditional accounting metrics for capturing its value. Offers opportunities to identify high-impact roles, employ strategic workforce measurement frameworks, and develop specialized scorecards to align HR decisions with business strategy. Provides tools for formulating analytics questions, gathering relevant data, and applying advanced techniques such as regression, network analysis, and machine learning. Students construct strategy maps and causal models, establishing clear destination metrics that guide performance improvements. Examines how to refine decision-making, foster accountability, uphold ethical and legal standards, ensure data privacy in workforce analytics, and drive strategic impact.