About Us

Human Capital Science is one of very few consulting organizations designed to drive true business results with strategic Human Capital Management technologies. We formed out of a need and desire to help organizations move from "hunch" to “science” in Human Capital Management.  The application of truly objective measures and proven processes support the science and drive the true strategic value of your enterprise by fully leveraging Human Capital Management (HCM) technologies.  Fundamental to the successful implementation of this approach are the following steps

• Organizational Assessment
• Metrics and Information Management
• HCM Strategy Mapping
• Business Case, ROI, and Value Assessment
• Solution Optimization
• Deployment Excellence

As the basis for the first step, the organizational assessment, HCS has developed three indices: The Competency Quotient™ (CQ), the Diversity Quotient™ (DQ), and the Innovation Intelligence Quotient™ (I2Q).  The Competency Quotient certifies not only compliance or readiness, but also excellence in implementation of the People Capability Maturity Model.  The Diversity Quotient certifies not only a preparedness for participation in a global economy but organizational support for excellence in any form.  The Innovation Intelligence Quotient assesses an organizations culture and practices to provide a picture of the organization’s support for innovation.  Together, these measures can identify not only the organizations whose promises, practices and processes will continue to make them leaders in the 21st century, but also will identify a path for the other organizations to follow to become truly great.

Unlike traditional consulting firms, however, Human Capital Science’s Partners have combined their experience in professional services with a background that includes C-level operational leadership experience.  This ensures our clients that our partners have a clear and practical picture of the complexities of the organization as an operating unit that pure consultants or academics cannot possibly possess. 

Additionally, Human Capital Science is about bringing value to our client, not extending billable hours.  Once the initial assessment has been made and the strategic gap analysis has been delivered, Organizations can choose the path that best suits their approach.  Most often, however, the choice is for Human Capital Science to use its proprietary processes to ensure high performance execution against that a development plan to close the identified gaps.  This is designed to accomplish three to four months worth of work in two to three days, immediately eliminating infighting and addressing change management risks across stakeholder leaders and organizations by providing them with an understandable view of best practices, and immersing them in the development of the charter, the work plan, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and joint ownership of activities.  This is accomplished by translating the business strategy into an actionable people strategy through the definition of the common language of competencies mapped to a set of aligned goals and objectives outlining specific activities.

While many organizations recognize the potential benefits that this process can yield, the successful ones also understand and manage the associated risks as well. Among the enterprise's challenges and concerns are:

• Aligning business strategy with the people strategy
• Cascading strategy and goals down into the enterprise and with vendors
• Providing organizational structures that facilitate the implementation of strategy, goals and competency based management
• Implementing a control framework to ensure the plan is adopted and implemented
• Measuring performance