Exploring People Intelligence with Cole Napper

Cole Napper returns to ScienceForWork as the newly appointed Chief People Intelligence Officer at HR Bench, and brings a provocative claim: people analytics is now a commodity, and what comes next is something he calls people intelligence.

In this conversation, Cole and Matt explore:

• Why the four branches of HR data — people analytics, talent intelligence, workforce planning, and behavioral science — are collapsing into a single intelligence layer
• How AI is forcing a rebuild of HR from first principles, and why large enterprises may face the steepest climb
• The case for "tokenomics" as the next workforce planning challenge — and why hourly token cost vs. hourly human cost is closer than most leaders think
• What it means to do science when the field is changing faster than the research can keep up

More from Cole:

• Directionally Correct podcast: https://www.colenapper.com/podcast
• People Analytics: Using Data-Driven HR and Gen AI as a Business Asset (book): https://www.colenapper.com/book
• Cole's site & newsletter: ⁠https://www.colenapper.com⁠
• HR Bench: https://hrbench.com

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