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Steve McDonnell, a former Worldwide Partner and head of the Global Information and Software business for the Americas at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, left the firm after more than 20 years to become the company's founder and President.

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The company spent the past 12 months designing a process and developing an automated tool that will make it possible for organizations to mine their human resource information. "Very few companies do this today," says McDonnell, "because it's kind of like searching for buried treasure in the ocean without a map. You know it's there, but there are so many places to look that it's absolutely overwhelming. By following our process, clients can create a map, so they know what they are looking for and where to look for it. Then our automated tool dives in and extracts information and knowledge - the buried treasure that exists today inside every organization's workforce databases."

Workforce Foresight also offers data quality assessments, custom data mining services and creates predictive models for events such as turnover.

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