Overview
Simplify workforce planning
Talent demands and needs can change quickly and organizations need the ability to react quickly; however, when it comes to building workforce plans, HR teams are often slowed down by manual, siloed and time- consuming processes. Organizations need robust, integrated workforce planning solutions that provide a complete view of their organization’s workforce capacity and future needs.
IBM® Planning Analytics with Watson® allows businesses to automate manual processes for more reliable decision making. This high performance, integrated planning tool allows organizations to align departmental staffing needs with organizational objectives, deliver in-the-moment talent plans, optimize existing resources and provide foresight into future needs.
The future of workforce planning
76%
of HR respondents indicate that they are continuing or increasing investments in new technology.¹
83%
of Best-in-Class organizations see automation as a driver for integration of HR metrics with broader operational metrics for cost management.²
47%
of HR leaders indicate that they are replacing manual spreadsheets with automated workforce and performance management solutions.
Use cases
Planning solutions for workforce
Headcount and staffing planning
Ensure accurate, comprehensive visibility into your workforce capacity and headcount planning by unifying all of your data. Align workforce plans to organizational growth, strategy, objectives and performance.
Compensation planning
Make sure your compensation plan is competitive and aligns with corporate objectives, talent acquisition and retention. See the impact of merit increases and promotions before you implement them with what-if scenario modeling.
Succession planning
Skills development is crucial to workforce longevity and success. Skills can be tracked and measured to ensure ROI can be provided to justify such programs.
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson
Workforce planning
Workforce planning
IBM Planning Analytics with Watson is a fast, flexible and complete workforce planning and analytics solution that enables agile workforce planning. Automate manual processes and simplify complex analytics and insights across the organization. With one integrated, sophisticated solution, easily analyze and model merit increases, employee skills, payroll costs and compensation across departments.
Workforce planning demo
Workforce planning demo
See how you can create more accurate workforce plans with an integrated planning and analytics solution.
Hear from the analysts
What our customers are saying
With our legacy planning solution, it used to take at least a day to complete our payroll planning and to update our budget with monthly actuals. Now, IBM Planning Analytics completes the same workload in just under 60 minutes, cutting loading times by 85 percent.
Keith Would
Head of Financial Planning and Reporting
London South Bank University
Working with IBM means that we will be much better able to match up our existing skills and resources with customer orders. Now, our sites will be able to track the expertise available across the whole business, and as soon as we receive a new order we can either move labor to where it is needed, or even move the project to the best site to satisfy the request.
David Legge
Global IT Projects Director
GKN Aerospace
Today, our employees can input the time they spend at a client site and log their expenses directly into IBM Planning Analytics. After a member of the HR team has approved the data, we can feed it into our payroll system and our budget model—repaying expenses more quickly, reducing effort for HR, and delivering more accurate insight into our costs.
Marco Calzolari
Head of Controlling
Retelit
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