When Workforce Planning Worlds Collide

Jeff Buchmiller

THE SURPRISING SCOPE AND COMPLEXITY OF WORKFORCE PLANNING

WORKFORCE PLANNING means so many different things to different organizations and professionals, because it spans a broad framework having a large degree of complexity. An organization’s workforce planning function is the result of implementing some suite of components according to the needs and style—and stage of process maturity—of the organization (see Figure 1).

An appropriate response to the large degree of complexity is to utilize the “divide and conquer” approach. When the interfaces among components are defined and established, the overall process can be managed, even when the components vary widely in their implementations ...

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