Integrating workforce planning with the business

The challenge

A global technology company decided to change the business strategy via acquisitions, Asian expansion and onshore vs. offshore. This change in strategy drove the need to integrate workforce planning into business and financial planning processes.

Our solution

• Analysed and conducted workforce diagnostics, workforce assessment, and workforce modelling.
• Developed workforce planning process, tools and templates to align with business and financial planning.
• Defined workforce competency model and labour cost model.
• Developed a scorecard of metrics to measure workforce planning success.

The results

• Consolidated R&D centres based on current and future workforce needs, which resulted in greater organisational efficiencies.
• Determined the appropriate mix of onshore vs. offshore labour to optimise costs.
• Reduced 'single point of failure' dependencies.

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