Connect people, skills and capacity to strategic execution
Overview
Connect talent, spend and strategic goals in a single view
Business challenge
Managing a modern workforce is harder than ever. Siloed data across HR, PMO and finance creates inconsistent views, leaving leaders blind to resource availability and open headcount. Capacity planning often relies on guesswork without visibility into demand and utilization, and disconnected labor cost tracking makes proving ROI a challenge.
How IBM Targetprocess helps
Workforce management capabilities in IBM Targetprocess turn disconnected workforce data into clear action. Leaders see where demand outpaces capacity, explore solutions and shift people and funding before gaps disrupt delivery. With each decision tied to cost and strategy, teams move faster, spend smarter and deliver greater value.
Optimize talent and deliver efficiently
Workforce management integrates role, cost and capacity data from HR, finance and delivery systems to provide real-time visibility into team allocation, costs and alignment with business priorities. It helps leaders understand resource availability, plan capacity to balance workloads and forecast demand, connect labor costs to budgets and outcomes and ensure workforce investments support strategic goals.
- Workforce visibility and alignment
- Capacity and demand alignment
Workforce visibility and alignment
- Understand which initiatives are taking the most time and headcount
- Quickly identify role gaps and resourcing imbalances
- Single connected view of workforce composition, costs and capacity across projects, programs and portfolios to eliminate siloed data and manual reporting.
- Get a high-level snapshot of your workforce
- See exactly where headcount is allocated by solution train, release train and team
Capacity and demand alignment
- Align capacity with demand at scale for balanced workloads and predictable delivery
- Filter by team, time frame or scenario to focus on the highest-risk demand
- Spot overload periods early before they turn into slips and bottlenecks
- Instantly see which teams are overloaded versus tracking well
- See how committed work maps to capacity over time—and what needs rebalancing
Benefits
See one view of roles, teams and costs across systems.
Match the right talent to the most critical work.
Anticipate demand and prevent under-utilization or over-utilization.
Ensure that labor spend directly supports strategic outcomes
Use cases
Demand intake
Dependency management
Scaled agile framework (SAFe)
Strategic portfolio management
More IBM Targetprocess use cases
Unify project intake for smarter portfolio decisions.
Identify, visualize and monitor cross-portfolio dependencies.
IBM Targetprocess is key to adopting SAFe 6.0 for true business agility.
Align decision-making to strategic objectives across portfolios.
Resources
Insights and supporting materials
Connect strategy to portfolio decisions
Manage work, resources and portfolios in one place—while keeping every team aligned to business strategy. Start your free trial and see how IBM Targetprocess can help you connect strategy to delivery, optimize investments and deliver value with maximum agility.
