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Strategic e-HR Conference - HP Workforce Planning Session

jason.averbook — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:54:12 GMT

Sheila Couch - Director of Operations & Workforce Planning did the presentation. She began with a fascinating view of how large, complex and pervasive HP is in our everyday life.

Did a very good job of talking about HP's strategic objective - crucial place to start when tying HR and Workforce Planning to the business goals and objectives.
HP and Workforce Planning

Focus on Capital strategy alignment

Financial capital
Workforce capital

Have to start with business model; then can build workforce planning
The Change Agent to Workforce Planning

Elimination of jobs (STRATEGICALLY)
Eliminating costs

Investment and De-Investment
Aligning Cost Structure
Moving to Low Cost Locations Where Makes Sense
Right Skilling the Workforce
Aligning all Human Capital Programs

Hand off Workforce Plan to all other functions within HR (the way it should be, no silos)
Governance - one of the key points that Knowledge Infusion helps put in place within organizations

First place to start - "Build the plane before you take off"

Start strategically if possible, not operationally
Had to start operationally; not optimal but working
Amazing financial knowledge from a HR role - true proof that Workforce Planning is NOT TYPICAL HR STUFF

4 parts to plane

Strategic Modeling
Strategic Planning
Operational Planning
Monitoring

Brilliant speaker for those reading - Lucia Erwin, VP of Worldwide HR from Magellan - she was responsible for building the Workforce Planning function at HP - truly gets it!!
All Workforce Planning starts with the Portal - a point Knowledge Infusion is also working with many clients to understand the importance of a HR portal.
Do an amazing job of using dashboards on a quarterly basis
How to spend L&D dollars tied to Workforce Plan

Keys to success

Executive Commitment
Leadership Drive
Business Acumen - brought course into HR (HUGE VALUE ADD)
Technology as a support and enabler, not a driver

Great session. A great example of true TALENT MANAGEMENT

People Mover / BusinessWeek - Impact on HR Technology?

jason.averbook — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:56:51 GMT

BusinessWeek this morning calls to light an issue Knowledge Infusion sees HR dealing with more and more as the economy truly become global at its core - Global Workforce and Talent Management. BusinessWeek highlights that organizations are moving more and more to outside firms such as Fragomen and Littler. The firms have an interesting observation worth calling out:

Fragomen and Littler say that about 80% of their work involves getting workers into the US, which can be extremely frustrating.

Getting employees into other countries can be equally difficult requiring a series of tests, certifications and processes just to enter the country for work purposes.

HR has to change its focus from trying to do all of this by itself to working with firms such as Fragomen and Littler for assistance. Where HR MUST focus is on the global workforce planning aspect of this problem.

I, Jason Averbook, recently spoke at a Conference Board event for CEO's where I was quoted saying "in the future, HR is not just about getting the right people to the right place at the right time, but truly knowing what those people are good at, who is looking for career opportunities and how these people will continue to progress within the organization. The days of find and drop into a job are over for HR, it is an ongoing, everliving process in today's global economy."

The other thing that is truly important about this issue is that for each of these people and to fulfill the future role of HR in a global economy, HR needs to have a solid GLOBAL FOUNDATION for its core HR solution and a GLOBAL talent management and workforce planning tool. These are MUSTS as the world becomes flatter and an area that we at Knowledge Infusion continue to see growing interest in.

Take a read of this short, but informative article from BusinessWeek this morning. Do you have a global view of your workforce besides employee number?

Another infusion of knowledge...

Link to BusinessWeek article