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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

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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

 

 

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