Overview
IBM’s Workforce and Talent Solutions (WTS) is the first holistic offering in the talent management marketplace that addresses every stage of the employee lifecycle. It is designed to leverage the synergy created when all stages of the employee lifecycle are optimized, and help your organization achieve a competitive advantage from its workforce. The solution provides a complete, integrated approach to the employee life cycle that merges consulting services with Lotus collaborative technologies, Cognos Workforce Analytics, and best of breed Talent Management applications, including SuccessFactors and Saba. Additionally, IBM’s own Workforce Management Initiative provides a unique set of assets and best practices that are leveraged to accelerate the transformation of your organization.
Driving innovation and growth in today’s business environment requires focus on your workforce and talent capabilities. The ability to manage costs, drive productivity and gain a competitive advantage from the workforce is growing in importance and focus.
Today’s workforce is increasingly globally dispersed, multigenerational and multicultural. Effective management of today’s dynamic workforce requires an integrated and consistent approach. This can drive cost savings, efficiency, retention, quality, customer satisfaction and innovation.
According to a recent study by IBM and the Human Capital Management Institute, companies that apply effective and integrated workforce and talent management strategy and practices demonstrate significantly better financial performance compared to their industry peers.
Additionally, times of unprecedented economic uncertainty require even more focus on specific areas of your workforce strategy. Specifically, in order to position your organization for future success, you must differentiate high and low performers, stimulate social networking to create and leverage organizational knowledge of your globally dispersed workforce, promote the development of institutional knowledge, embrace flexible work environments, and enable leadership to guide individuals through the change. Increasingly, companies are recognizing that their workforce is a key asset that needs to be managed, improved and optimized to ensure the greatest return on investment. IBM Workforce and Talent Solutions offers an integrated approach that can help your organization increase shareholder value and build an Enterprise of the Future.
Business challenges
Aligning your workforce strategy to your business strategy to maintain and increase your competitive advantage
Quickly adapting your workforce to changes in volatile market forces, rapidly shifting skills and newly emerging technology
Enable wide-scale collaboration of a dynamic and geographically disperse workforce
Delivering new products and services quicker than your competition
Workforce and talent solutions that we offer
Workforce strategy and planning – Align your workforce and business strategy to ensure your organization can adapt to a dynamic marketplace.
Source – Implement best practices and processes for recruiting based on the needs of the organization and streamlining the on boarding process.
Manage – Develop and implement effective leadership, performance, recognition and succession processes.
Connect – People to people, information and processes. Leverage the scale of your workforce and embed collaborative connections in daily work activities, enabled by Lotus software.
Develop – Train, certify and track your employees’ learning to provide foundational competencies, career paths and meet ongoing regulation requirements for specific markets. Leverage social networking tools to enhance the learning process.
Deploy – Apply the Workforce Management Process Framework with best of breed and integrated solutions that focus on the end-to-end planning and deployment process.
Manage and Sustain change – Identify, design and execute key levers that influence and change behaviors. We have built structured methods and approaches that take a practical top-down and bottom-up approach with emphasis on “People Change”.
Workforce measurement – Provide a high-level view of the health and vitality of the workforce with Cognos Workforce Performance Management Analytic Application.
Why IBM
IBM is uniquely qualified to assist you in defining a workforce and talent strategy, then implementing that strategy to transformation your workforce to deliver value. We have a practice with over 2,000 human capital professionals in 42 countries experienced in developing and delivering proven solutions using a global delivery model.
