02 — Capability · BC-310
Workforce Planning
Know how many people the organization needs, with which skills, where and when, and close the gap between that and the workforce it has before the gap becomes a missed plan.
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Headcount Planning
- Workforce Analytics
In scope
- Headcount and skills demand forecasts tied to the business plan
- The organization design and job architecture that demand is expressed in
- Workforce data, metrics and the analysis that explains them
- Decisions on build, buy, borrow or automate for each capability gap
Out of scope
- Filling an approved requisition (see BC-320)
- The labor budget as a line in the financial plan (see BC-220)
- Production shift scheduling on the floor (see BC-1120)
Realized by · 3
- Workday · Human Capital Managementcore via BC-310.40
- Workday · Adaptive Planningstrong via BC-310.10
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications · Human Capital Managementstrong via BC-310.40
Used in · 1
- Hire-to-Retire · 01 Plan & Open Role via BC-310.10
Build it · 3
- book Team Topologies via BC-310.30
- book An Elegant Puzzle via BC-310.30
- book Architecture Modernization via BC-310.30
Decomposes into · 5
- BC-310.10Workforce Demand ForecastingTranslate the business plan into the number and type of people it will take, by period and location, so hiring, training and automation decisions start from a shared number.
- BC-310.20Skills & Capability Gap AnalysisCompare the skills the organization has with the skills its plans require, and decide for each gap whether to develop, hire, contract or automate.
- BC-310.30Organization DesignShape the structure, roles, spans and reporting lines through which work gets done, and change them deliberately when strategy or scale demands it.
- BC-310.40Position ManagementKeep an authoritative record of every approved position, whether it is filled, vacant or frozen, so headcount reporting and requisition approval share one truth.
- BC-310.50Workforce AnalyticsTurn workforce data into answers about cost, movement, diversity, engagement and risk that leaders can act on, with definitions everyone agrees to use.