To be a strategic human resources practitioner, one must be able to provide data driven facts and be able to use them in order to proactively address HR issues and strategically support the business. Data driven analytics and metrics, provides HR with information to help drive strategic business decisions and build executive partnerships. To help businesses deliver a competitive advantage over the competition, HR provides analytics on key performance indicators, HR analytics and interpretation of the data for the organization. This course will provide the theory, concept and best practices in gathering business requirements, planning, research techniques, data analysis, metrics, and reporting.