System for providing workforce planning services

The method of providing workforce planning services, the method comprising:

• identifying a business strategy of an organization and a business metric, wherein the business strategy describes a plurality of business objectives of the organization and the business metric identifies whether the business objectives are being achieved;
• determining a key workforce segment of a plurality of workforce segments, wherein the key workforce segment has a greatest affect on the business metric of any of the plurality of workforce segments;
• determining a plurality of roles within the key workforce segment, the plurality of roles required to achieve the plurality of business objectives;
• ranking each of the plurality of roles based on an affect each of the plurality of roles has on the business metric and a number of employees within each role;
• determining a forecasted number of employees required within each of the plurality of roles over a period of time;
• generating, by a processor, a workforce action plan for obtaining the forecasted number of employees for each of the plurality of roles over the period of time, wherein the talent action plan prioritizes obtaining the forecasted number of employees for each of the plurality of roles based on the ranking;
• implementing the workforce action plan over the period of time;
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• monitoring the implementing of the workforce action plan and the business metric to identify whether the business objectives are being achieved over the period of time.

A system for generating a workforce service plan and monitoring implementation thereof, the system comprising:

• a memory operative to store a baseline workforce dataset describing a current plurality of employees of an organization;
• an interface, coupled to the memory, the interface operative to communicate with a device of a user;
• and
• a processor, coupled to the memory and the interface, the processor operative to identify the baseline workforce dataset, determine a projected workforce dataset based on the baseline workforce dataset and a criterion, wherein the projected workforce dataset describes a projected plurality of employees required by the organization over a period of time, assess the baseline workforce dataset and a plurality of employee movement strategies to determine a forecasted available workforce dataset, wherein the forecasted available workforce dataset describes a forecasted plurality of employees available to the organization over the period of time, determine a workforce gap dataset describing a gap between the projected workforce dataset and the forecasted available workforce dataset, generate a workforce service plan, wherein the workforce service plan describes a plurality of strategies for eliminating the gap described by the workforce gap dataset over the period of time, provide, via the interface, the workforce service plan to the device of the user, receive, via the interface, a plurality of updates to the baseline workforce dataset over the period of time, and assess the plurality of updates to the baseline workforce dataset over the period of time to determine whether the workforce service plan is being implemented effectively.