Strategic Workforce Planning Knowledge Center

Strategic workforce planning (SWP) is the essential link between business needs and HR strategy. Looking ahead three to five years or more, strategic workforce planning involves the decisions that must be made today in order to create the organization leaders desire for the future. It is also a mechanism to create a competitive advantage by building a high-performance organization.

And yet, i4cp research shows that less than 20% of companies believe they’re effective with their strategic workforce planning initiatives.

Companies struggle with strategic workforce planning for a variety of reasons, from an inability to collect meaningful data to gaining credibility and acceptance with the executive team. Too often it is seen as yet another HR process, being done for HR alone.

i4cp has worked with many of the largest companies in the world to overcome these challenges and enable high performance. Members have access to cutting edge research reports and, more importantly, each other, to discuss successful (and unsuccessful) strategies to implementing a successful workforce plan.

Strategic Workforce Planning Resources

Strategic Workforce Planning Exchange

In this member-driven group, participating companies, which includes Raytheon, Flextronics, Toyota Financial and ConAgra Foods, work together to implement leading SWP practices in their own organizations.

Webinar: How to Achieve Strategic Workforce Planning

In this on-demand webinar, designed for senior business professionals with a vested interest in workforce planning, Jay Jamrog, SVP of Research, looks at research and practices of high performance organizations.

Workforce Planning Research Report - members only

See how your company compares and what you can do to implement effective strategic workforce planning processes in your organization with this major analysis report from i4cp. Available only to members.