Forecast the impact of your business decisions.

Businesses today face many challenges that make it essential to conduct thorough planning. Uncertain economic times, changing workforce dynamics, and disruptive technology evolutions are only a sample of the forces converging to constantly change the way companies conduct business.
Workforce Planning

Inform's Workforce Planning solution provides sophisticated and advanced modelling of your workforce to drive "what-if?" scenario analysis planning. This information is critical to ensure you are planning now for the workforce you will need to execute on your long-term strategy.

• Formulate your strategy with greater confidence knowing your forecasts are based on credible, reliable workforce data
• Identify and address workforce gaps critical to your business before they surface
• Optimize your business outcomes by modelling different scenarios with robust "what-if" financial modelling
• Get a comprehensive view of your business by incorporating data from different source applications

Inform's Workforce Planning is a comprehensive solution that includes various capabilities including "what-if" financial modelling, strategic business analysis and scenario development, demand forecasting, supply modelling, gap analysis, and impact modelling and action planning. Together with our strategic consulting services, we can draw upon our extensive experience in workforce planning to help you deliver superior results.

Insights

Shape your organization's future by taking the right actions today.

Along with comprehensive Workforce Planning solutions, Inform delivers actionable business insights that equip your organization with the right information to deliver optimal business results.
To stay ahead of the competition, your organization needs to form your business strategy and framework around concrete and actionable insights. With an integrated suite of offerings and services, Inform can deliver the business insights your organization needs to get to the top and stay there.

Analytics and Reporting

Predictive analytics help you choose the best course of action.

Inform's Analytics and Reporting solution provides predictive analytics to guide better decisions and help business leaders take pivotal actions today that will create a better tomorrow for their organizations.

• Hone business strategies by identifying the leading indicators of organizational effectiveness
• Provide executives and managers with the data they need to deliver better business outcomes
• Align workforce planning with corporate strategy by marrying your human capital with financial data
• Optimize workforce performance and productivity by getting to the root cause of workforce issues

Our Analytics and Reporting offering includes access to a suite of best practice-based-reports containing key performance indicators and benchmarks, as well as an intuitive ad-hoc analysis engine. Other core components of the Analytics and Reporting offering include data extraction, cleansing, and transformation, analytics strategy, predictive modelling, data mining and statistics, all of which help to ensure delivery of meaningful business insights.

Metrics

Anticipate using predictive, key performance measures.

Leverage predictive key performance metrics to move from the traditional reliance on lagging scorecards to a more active engagement with intelligent metrics that tell you where you need to be going.

• Generate quick insights into the productivity and performance of your business with metrics and
• Correlate trends and behaviour of several metrics to uncover the drivers you can truly affect in order to drive business impact
• Draw from an extensive library of proven best practice metrics or engage with our team to design custom metrics specific to your needs
• Mitigate the risk of poor decisions knowing you are sourcing consistent, well-defined measurement standards

Our key performance metrics solution includes a KPI dashboard, an organizational metrics scorecard, external and internal benchmark comparisons, plus member networks and best practices research. Inform also provides a Metrics Standards reference guide designed to teach organizations how to interpret and use 2000 individual measures. The book defines standard formulas for each measure, evaluates what data is required to publish the metric, and offers guidance on analyzing the results.

Benchmarking

Benchmark your human capital performance against your peers.

Are you able to make key organizational decisions based on hard data? With hundreds of standardized workforce metrics, and a database of over 2 million employees, Inform offers the most comprehensive transactional peer benchmarking service available to enable you to answer questions like:

• How does retention of your key talent compare to other organizations?
• How do your workforce revenue and expenses weigh up against competitors?
• Are you building enough internal talent?
• Do you have visibility into workforce challenges looming around the corner?

If you are unable to answer these questions, you are exposing your business to unnecessary risk and putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage. Begin generating critical insights on workforce productivity and performance by registering for the new 2010 National Benchmarking Study.

Consulting

Get the right answers to the right questions.

Whether you are one of the world's largest retailers or a small non-profit organization Inform's consulting services can help you obtain the tailored, practical guidance you need to achieve your business objectives.
Consulting Services

Recognized as a global leader, our consulting services team brings over 27 years of expertise in workforce planning, predictive analytics, key performance metrics implementation, and surveys. By teaming with our experienced consultants our customers have been able to:

• Develop a comprehensive workforce planning strategy by harnessing our industry-leading data extraction, analysis and reporting
•  Map the progress of strategy alignment through the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) tailored to the specific needs of your organization
• Accurately measure the Return on Investment (ROI) of talent-centric initiatives by identifying, aggregating and modelling workforce, customer, operations and financial data
• Improve workforce data communication through adopting design best practices and technologies that automate production and distribution of strategic reports
• Gain insight into priority improvement areas through comprehensive custom surveys

With decades of experience issuing guidance on measurement best practices, workforce planning systems and methodology, implementation strategies, and data-driven investigations of your business initiatives, Inform has the expertise, experience, resources and passion to help you and your organization achieve real business results.

Workforce Planning

Will expected global talent shortages or the aging workforce expose your organization to significant risk in the future? Understanding the significance of your current and projected talent supply and demand makes all the difference in your organization’s ability to execute strategy effectively. Workforce planning allows you to make informed decisions about how organizational changes will impact your ability to execute your business strategy so you can choose the best course of action.
SuccessFactors Workforce Planning ensures you will have the right employees with the necessary skill sets available to carry out your organization’s long term strategic plan. This proven solution has been used by Fortune 500 companies around the globe for almost thirty years to help inform business strategy and bridge the execution gap between strategy and results.
Key benefits of SuccessFactors Workforce Planning solution powered by Inform:

• Make Informed Decisions – formulate your strategy with greater confidence knowing your forecasts are based on credible workforce data from across your multiple business systems
•  Mitigate Risks – identify the skills and competencies needed to meet your growth strategy and any
• Optimize Your Results – using robust “what-if?” financial modeling, dynamically model different workforce scenarios and understand their financial implications – in real time.

The power of Business Alignment and People Performance combined: SuccessFactors' Business Execution Software including Workforce Analytics helps organizations achieve maximal business results by aligning, arming and inciting organizations to greatness.

Download theWorkforce Planning Datasheet.pdf