Osterus — The “Moneyball” approach to assessing the human capital within organisations

Remember “Moneyball”, the book by Michael Lewis? Maybe not, but you certainly remember “Moneyball”, the movie based on the very same book, with Brad Pitt being a general manager of the baseball team trying to come up with a winning squad of players on a tight budget.

I don’t want to spoil it for you, but he thinks putting analytics to work can help him find overseen players that could actually perform very well without costing a fortune.

We saw the method many times, especially in the stock market arena, where people would use statistical indicators to find “underdog” perceived companies — cheap, but good, with great potential.

It worked out well for the coach in Moneyball. So it did for many others,

and it didn’t for some as well, but that is not that important.

We at Osterus believe data is crucial, and that people and talent need to be factored into the equation.

I am making this parallel with a movie to explain what Osterus is able to do for M&A practitioners and Recruiters.

Osterus is a swiss-knife of workforce analytics. It will help Recruiters Assess the market and let them instantly compare how leading companies hire and give real insights.

A good overview of the talent both within your team and available for hire equals top-notch data. It’s not just about the data alone. It needs to be translated to information, and the information needs to be used to create insights.

Meaningful insights are what Osterus brings to the market.

This also applies to mergers & acquisitions and making an investment decision, when factoring in the human talent within an organization.

In the world we’re living, the human capital of the company has become its most valuable asset.

We, at Osterus, strongly believe in that.

Let me briefly explain how top experts created a solution that will change the game for all people who think the quality of people in the company equals its success.

Let the data speak

Osterus is a platform built to data-inform professionals about the human capital or as we refer to it, a human talent of companies, aiming to help anyone from HR specialists to people assessing the value of companies for investment and M&A processes.

All the information we present is a product of an innovative approach to collecting and processing huge sets of data, finding patterns, and delivering them in an easy-to-understand and simplified actionable manner.

Find out the impossible

Performing comparisons between companies’ workforces manually and looking into their resumes can be hard, time-consuming, and often does not yield an in-depth analysis of how your workforce benchmarks.

Osterus does that for you. It’s a funny anecdote, but during the tests of our software, while going into the micro analysis we found out that there is a correlation between being able to play a specific musical instrument and creating better code. Having this level of detail is just cert difficult by looking manually into people, their career backgrounds, interests, academic experience.

Osterus combines all of that, offering vast university information, easy cost of living/quality of life comparison (for growingly more important remote hiring), powerful CV analysis tools which help you analyze, detect bias and reveal a correlation between a wide array of factors.

On top of all of that, we empower recruiters to get a deep understanding of the key competitors hiring practices. Awesome, right?

Harness the power of data to make successful M&As

Did you know that M&A practitioners cite talent retention as one of the crucial factors influencing M&A deal success?

That’s reasonable. Companies are no longer buying just the product or patents of other companies. They are acquiring their top talent, and without that top talent, companies become just empty shells.

Osterus brings scores and compares companies by loyalty, knowledge score, diversity data, career insights, and hiring bias for a clear, objective comparison which can greatly help in deciding which venture to invest in.

What’s really great, is that we don’t just dump all of this data into a spreadsheet. Our AI visualizations make it easy to understand, process, and draw meaningful insights from all of this.

All of this in your data lake

Another dashboard? Yes, we know, it can be very frustrating to use tens of tools, look at all the dashboards, and transfer the data from one system to another. That’s exactly why we have a powerful engine under the hood.

The heart of the Osterus is driven by a powerful API, so we are able to offer both the interface we created, alter it to fit your workflow and needs, or just a reliable “pipe” to let the data you need flow to you.

See the correlation?

Moneyball always struck me, and when we launched Osterus, it was easy to make the parallel. Among other things, we help people and companies discover the underdogs, those with huge value but overseen. It’s a great mission. And I love the movie as well. Win-win for us.

It would be very silly of me not to invite you to have a chat with us if you think we could help your efforts of having more data on employees, companies, applications, and your competitors. Feel free to shoot us an email, or schedule a demo on our website.