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People, your most valuable asset
Nothing gets attention like analytics. Step up with agile human resource planning that frees your staff from drudgery, uses AI to improve decision-making, and delivers prescient forecasts.
IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson is an integrated workforce planning, analysis and reporting solution that automates and streamlines HR management processes – employment, salary, bonus, headcount and benefits planning – all in one platform.
Develop accurate AI-guided workforce plans and forecasts based on changes in staffing, location, return to work, remuneration, retention, churn rates and more.
The Key to Successful Workforce Planning (18:53)
Features for strategic workforce planning
Flexible workforce plans
Plan for the ideal mix of remote and in-person work scenarios. Get a real-time consolidation of operational costs with human resources drivers and constraints, talent needs, and geographic factors – all in one easy-to-use collaborative environment. Instantly see the impact on business plans and HR costs, skills gaps, and talent acquisition challenges associated with different workforce scenarios for truly effective workforce planning.
Full visibility into HR metrics and KPIs
This IBM employment planning solution gives you full visibility into current workforce success factors, job market data, staffing metrics and performance ratings. You'll have an easy way to determine and explain – with built-in HR reporting - the most efficient action plan for headcount planning. And you’ll have and cost-effective methods to recruit, up-skill, train and retain new and existing talent - while optimizing costs, increasing employee productivity, and reducing turnover rate.
AI-infused workforce optimization
Forecast future human resources management demands accurately and rapidly—based on dynamic changes in headcount, location, compensation planning, employee productivity, employee retention, and attrition—with the decision optimization feature. Perform what-if workforce analysis to determine HR costs, headcount, compensation and skill set gaps when you expand into new markets and product categories.
Benefits
Performance, scalability and flexibility
Integrated business planning
Align operational workforce planning strategic goals with business strategy. Create transparency and collaboration across your organization by extending planning and analytics from HR to Finance and other lines of business for better executive-level decision-making.
Continuous workforce planning
Respond with agility to changing business conditions by creating continuous workforce plans and forecasts - from monthly to daily to hourly. Quickly evaluate future workforce needs, performance gaps and drivers of business success to drive better decisions.
AI-infused workforce strategic planning
Go beyond simply taking the past at face value. Harness AI and augment human intelligence to factor in your forecast patterns that affect your human capital volumes. Factor in patterns such as time of day, day of the week, seasonality, or a new product launch, and more without a data scientist.
What are businesses saying?
Thanks to the greater flexibility in how we deploy our employees, we are very confident of achieving an impressive return on investment with the IBM solution.
David Legge
Global IT Projects Director
GKN Aerospace
We are confident that our IBM Planning Analytics solution will enable well-informed decision-making for years to come.
Marco Calzolari
Head of Controlling
Retelit
Our business is based on people. IBM Analytics is helping us manage that critical asset much more efficiently and effectively than ever before.
Nadia Bertoncini
Coordinator of Governance, Projects and HR Analytics for Latin America
Natura Cosméticos