Strategic Workforce Planning, the Future of Work, and Workforce Analytics - Articles, Thoughts, and Updates
Here's one way for HR to get into the boardroom...
If you'd like to learn about other ways, why not come to Kienco and ATC's inaugural Strategic Workforce Planning Conference in Melbourne (March 26/27) and Wellington (April 1/2). Full details on both events are at atcevent.com, or contact us.
Your workforce strategies and practices may be elaborate, expensive, and hauntingly beautiful. For many organisations, they are guided by the "spirits" of best practice, case studies, and history. But it pays to remember, it's the employees, not the spirits, who have to live in the house that HR builds.
The field is often referred to as “workforce planning and analytics”, but in fact, workforce planning and workforce analytics are two distinct, but related, fields. Often ‘workforce planning and analytics’ is the term applied to an approach that is analytics alone. While it’s true that analytics are critical to generating the insights for a strategic workforce plan, it is only one of several integrated steps that also includes ‘futuring’, environment scanning, and, most importantly, integration to business strategy.
Back in the 1990s, there was a great TV show called Beyond 2000, that discussed technological changes that would impact us in the (then) future. Well, we're WAY beyond 2000 now, and some of the predictions are only now starting to come true - but the future isn't what it used to be.
It's been a big year for me and Kienco, and 2014 is shaping up to be even bigger. We've been fortunate to work with some amazing clients and partners this year. Here's a look back on 2013 and a look forward to 2014.
A great team deserves great coffee, according to Nespresso - but will it drive employee engagement? Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Employee Engagement is one of the least understood and most exploited terms in Human Resources today.
Everything old is new again - Amazon's Jeff Bezos announces plans to deliver Amazon.com purchases using drones - something very similar was predicted in Popular Mechanics magazine 92 years ago.
A short post on the definition of underemployment, and some metrics discussing who bears the impact of underemployment in Australia
