[Excerpt] People analytics is an increasingly hot topic and many companies are working to gain insight through this emerging field. Business leaders are asking how analytics can help drive better decision-making in order to improve business results. Among these questions, turnover prediction and succession planning are two key areas that HR professionals identify as high value. Since there isn’t a one-size- fits-all solution to these questions, we compiled our most noteworthy insights and put forward several steps that an organization should follow in order to create its own internal models.