Strategic Workforce Planning

The workforce challenge

Across the UK, industries are facing significant short- and long-term skills shortages as a result of ongoing economic uncertainty, complex global political dynamics and the lingering impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Many organisations are battling to attract the talent needed to achieve their strategic goals. As these challenges persist, long-term strategic talent planning has become both increasingly critical and increasingly complex.

Our expertise

We are strategic workforce planning specialists and experts in workforce systems modelling. Partnering with clients across the private and public sector, we provide in-depth insight and foresight into their workforce supply and demand challenges, and skills gaps, over extended time periods.

Our work enables our clients to anticipate and prepare for future workforce requirements from present day to as far 2050.

We use our technical expertise in workforce systems modelling, data
analytics, AI and data visualisation techniques, alongside our organisational
design and development capabilities, to undertake workforce analysis and
develop pioneering strategic workforce planning models that deliver in-depth
understanding across:

• Future workforce and skills requirements: Analysing trends from the present day to key future milestones and long-term priorities, such as Net Zero in 2050
• The impact of behavioural and economic actions: Providing important insight into the complex impact of different behavioural and economic factors on the supply of talent into your workforce, and on talent retention
• The impact of acquisition and retention initiatives: Delivering essential
  decision support to assess the short, medium and long-term impact of
  initiatives aimed at attracting and retaining talent.
• Emerging skills gaps and talent oversupply: Enabling action and
  initiatives to be implemented to address these.
• Developing a sustainable workforce: Including regular reporting against workforce targets (complimenting short-term workforce management tools)

We work closely with clients to apply our workforce models to generate insight and foresight. We also support them to develop, stress-test, and implement effective workforce management (including acquisition, retention and development) and business change strategies.

Strategic advisory

Alongside our strategic workforce planning expertise, we use our strategic advisory capabilities to empower organisations to leverage the insight and foresight gained from our models and support them to deliver effective, enduring change.

Strategic Advisory