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The New Playbook for Org Design and Workforce Planning in the Era of Constant Change
AI, economic uncertainty, and evolving business priorities are forcing organizations to redesign their workforces faster than ever. AI in particular is reshaping roles faster than annual planning cycles can react, and shrinking the half life of skills, so redesign needs to be constant. Yet many of these high-stakes decisions are still made using disconnected data, static org charts, and point-in-time planning.
Leading organizations are taking a different approach, one led from HR. By combining a single foundation of workforce data with continuous workforce intelligence, they're able to understand today's workforce, plan organizational change with confidence, and activate managers to successfully execute it. This doesn’t replace existing budgeting and forecasting but enables business agility with a workforce redesign capability those processes were never built to provide.
In this session, you'll learn the Understand. Plan. Activate. framework for reducing risk, making smarter workforce redesign decisions, and delivering better business outcomes.
The Framework - A Loop, Not a Line:
Understand: Build a complete picture before you change it.
Successful workforce redesign starts with understanding the organization you have today—not the org chart, but the reality. Gain visibility into skill coverage and gaps, workforce costs, spans and layers, critical roles, organizational health, and coverage gaps from a single foundation of workforce data so every decision begins with the right context.
Plan: Test decisions before they become irreversible.
Model workforce redesign scenarios before committing to change. Evaluate the impact on cost, skill coverage, organizational health, and succession so leaders can compare options, anticipate unintended consequences, ensure feasibility, including recruiter capacity and ramp time, never considered in xP&A tools, and make decisions with confidence.
Activate: Turn strategy into successful execution.
The best redesign only succeeds if managers do. Equip leaders with timely guidance throughout the transition, monitor productivity and retention, and measure whether your workforce redesign delivered the business outcomes it was intended to achieve.
Leading organizations are taking a different approach, one led from HR. By combining a single foundation of workforce data with continuous workforce intelligence, they're able to understand today's workforce, plan organizational change with confidence, and activate managers to successfully execute it. This doesn’t replace existing budgeting and forecasting but enables business agility with a workforce redesign capability those processes were never built to provide.
In this session, you'll learn the Understand. Plan. Activate. framework for reducing risk, making smarter workforce redesign decisions, and delivering better business outcomes.
The Framework - A Loop, Not a Line:
Understand: Build a complete picture before you change it.
Successful workforce redesign starts with understanding the organization you have today—not the org chart, but the reality. Gain visibility into skill coverage and gaps, workforce costs, spans and layers, critical roles, organizational health, and coverage gaps from a single foundation of workforce data so every decision begins with the right context.
Plan: Test decisions before they become irreversible.
Model workforce redesign scenarios before committing to change. Evaluate the impact on cost, skill coverage, organizational health, and succession so leaders can compare options, anticipate unintended consequences, ensure feasibility, including recruiter capacity and ramp time, never considered in xP&A tools, and make decisions with confidence.
Activate: Turn strategy into successful execution.
The best redesign only succeeds if managers do. Equip leaders with timely guidance throughout the transition, monitor productivity and retention, and measure whether your workforce redesign delivered the business outcomes it was intended to achieve.
Learning Objective 1
Identify why traditional workforce redesign approaches are no longer enough in an AI-driven world.
Learning Objective 2
Apply the Understand. Plan. Activate. framework to reduce risk and improve workforce decisions.
Learning Objective 3
Evaluate how leading organizations measure the success of workforce redesign beyond cost savings alone.
Access Level
Conference Pass Exclusive