Shinogi Inc. Case Study

Human Resources have always been the vital asset of the company. To have a competitive edge, employees should be treated as resources and thus by aligning human resource function to the core business goals, organizations can achieve success in the competitive market. Human resources are always at the very core of the organization’s success. HR analytics plays a very important role in aligning the HR strategy with the overall business strategy. HR analytics aids the HR managers to formulate the strategies which enable the organization to gain an upper hand over its competitors. The papers analyzes whether HR analytics is the cutting edge tool for the HR managers. The study examines how HR Analytics facilitates the improvement of workforce

is the US arm of Shinogi & Co. Ltd., a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company. In 2003, Shinogi received a FDA approval for Crestor, a drug to fight high cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a major public health concern in Japan, but in US it is a multi -billion dollar market. At the time Shinogi didn’t have the sales and marketing footprint required to launch such product so they turned to highly successful co- marketing agreement with AstraZenecea for Crestor. Following Crestor in Shinogi’s drug pipeline were other key drugs however, and the organization wanted to see if it could build the sales and marketing talent pipeline to support future products on its own.

Along the way Shinogi had acquired some other small pharmaceutical companies and in 2010 relocated their corporate headquarters from Atlanta to the pharmaceutical corridor of New Jersey and implemented a new corporate structure. But while they moved the company, they didn’t relocate all their talent. So the challenge was to staff up a new organizational structure, add new capability and build a talent pipeline capable of ramping up and down with their product launches and

Each company has different problems associated with them but HR Analytics software has enabled all these three companies to overcome its problems and issues thus enhancing the productivity of the employees which in turn has led to increase in the revenue generation for the company. With the help of HR Analytics, Managers of these three companies were able to take a fact based decision thus justifying the investments by the organization to the human resource projects. Measuring the performance and productivity of each employee has become easier with the help of HR analytics. Hence, it can be concluded that HR Analytics is aiding the HR Managers to make a strategic decision based on reliable data and also helping them to resolve various issues faced by human resource managers. HR analytics is indeed a cutting edge tool which helps the human resource management to resolve many critical issues. The dawn of the new era has arrived for human resource management with the emergence of new IT based Technology like HR