Announcing Vee Boards: The AI Concierge Analyst for Your C-Suite Executives

In this post, I’ll introduce you to Vee Boards: an exciting enhancement coming soon to Visier People®.

The executive insights problem

In my people analytics career, I’ve noticed two persistent challenges—and they both have to do with providing C-suite executives with the insights they need to effectively manage the workforce.

Executives feel the first problem. Multi-million dollar decisions require quality analysis, but that analysis can take too long to create. Often, by the time the right dashboards are ready, the executive has had to make a decision based on best judgment rather than data and has moved on to new, equally urgent questions. 

People analytics teams feel the second problem. Too often, they simply don’t have enough resources (time, people, bandwidth) to do all the bespoke, strategic analysis that executives need and deserve. Their time is often dominated by the routine, foundational aspects of people analytics. 

Vee Boards use AI to offer a solution to both of those problems at once, and that’s why I’m so excited to introduce them to you in this post. 

A sneak peek into generative AI-powered Vee Boards

Coming soon from Visier, Vee Boards are AI-augmented insight boards, laser-focused on specific issues of the highest priority to the C-suite. Each one is prebuilt and tailored to the top concerns of a specific executive or group of executives.

Since they’re augmented by generative AI, Vee Boards go far beyond what traditional dashboards can do. Here are three specific ways.

1. They stitch together the right data

“Just bring data”: that’s the philosophy behind Vee Boards. There’s no guesswork on the customer’s part. The People Cost Smartboard, for example, is generated using HR data from your HCM system and cost data from your ERP. Once that data is integrated into Visier, the Vee Board takes it from there. It knows exactly which data to analyze, present, and explain.

2. They find the signal in the noise

While Visier staff curate what goes into a Vee Board, the actual analysis is done by generative AI. It examines all the data that could potentially appear on the board, and does the heavy analysis: Of all the hundreds of subpopulations that contribute to a top-level metric, which are the ones to highlight? Where has change occurred, and is that change noteworthy? Is it changing in a good or bad direction?

It’s the AI that conducts mathematical analysis to look in all the nooks and crannies of the data and determine what should be brought to the executive’s attention.

3. They don’t just summarize, they recommend action

AI summaries are table stakes these days. The Smart Insights pane within Vee Boards is more than just a recap of the data in narrative format. It does what a human analyst would do:

• It explains factors that have contributed to the current state

• It draws attention to trends, patterns, and outliers 

• It makes intelligent suggestions about where the executive could focus if they want to have the biggest impact on KPIs 

Vee Boards give executives the right insights at the right time

We created Vee Boards to help leaders quickly and reliably monitor their most critical KPIs and provide the opportunity to dive deeper into the data where necessary. Vee Boards surface insights directly to executives so they can identify potential issues and adapt strategies before they escalate into major problems that impact business performance. Vee Boards are designed to start with a view of the forest, not the trees. 

Vee Boards are human-designed. We know how to select the right content for executive impact because our company's journey has put us at the intersection of countless PA teams' experiences, including the most cutting-edge people analytics teams in the world. With hundreds of thousands of users engaging with our system monthly, we have a unique lens into the critical questions executives are asking, and the most effective ways to answer those questions. 

Why are they called Vee Boards? 

It’s because they’re powered by Vee, the award-winning generative AI technology within Visier, now used by millions of users. Vee is best known as a chatbot-style AI assistant. But the underlying AI, with its deep understanding of people and work data, is also ideal for selecting, analyzing, and presenting data to guide executives.

We take a “less is more” philosophy for the executive consumer. Each board takes the clearest, possible approach to guiding users through a logical progression of questions: What's the current performance state? Is there a problem or not? What factors are contributing most or least to the situation? Where's the best opportunity to intervene? 

Here are two examples:

• The People Cost Vee Board shows the CHRO and CFO the precise ways workforce costs are currently affecting the organization’s ability to hit its financial targets. It highlights topics like workforce cost forecasts, headcount movement and compensation changes, and how these are likely to impact P&L.

• The Talent Density Vee Board is designed to help the CHRO and CEO ensure that the organization is building and maintaining a high performance workforce. It helps them stay vigilant to make sure their capacity to deliver the talent the business needs is not eroding. The board covers KPIs related to employee movement, starts, exits, and helps the CHRO and their C-level peers pay special attention to managers and high performers.

Deliver executive-level insights with Vee Boards

Our intention with Vee Boards is to solve the two problems I mentioned earlier. Specifically, we hope to create impact for both people analytics teams and their C-suite stakeholders:

• For executives: C-suite decision-making is incredibly challenging–especially where people are concerned. We want to arm execs with always-on guidance about how they can hit their targets, which is ultimately good for the business as a whole.

• For people analytics teams: We hope Vee Boards will help people analytics teams scale their impact. We want even the smallest teams to be able to serve their executive populations with the kind of bespoke analysis and guidance that would otherwise be out of reach. Our Vision is that any analyst using Visier will be able to craft and distribute their own Vee Boards, further elevating the transformative impact of AI on the world of work.

Throughout the last decade, as I’ve worked to elevate the work of people analytics teams, the opportunity to deliver executive-level insights at scale has often seemed elusive. 

Now, with the arrival of AI technology, we're seeing huge leaps in the depth and quality of insights we can produce automatically. It's been exciting to work with my team to explore these new possibilities and create a reliable, large-scale solution. As we launch these new features, I'm aware this is just the beginning. I'm eager to build on this foundation and keep transforming how people and work data can influence business outcomes.

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