- Talent shortages, budget cuts, and quickly evolving skill needs are just a few among many barriers faced by IT leaders looking to staff their organization.
- A chief barrier to addressing all the above is simply lack of time and expertise. Between IT’s focus on hard skills, and the division of leaders’ time among competing priorities, the skill of workforce planning rarely gets priority in training or in time.
- Without adequate time and training, IT is stuck in reactive mode – struggling to fill positions and failing to take advantage of data on workforce efficiency.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Info-Tech’s step-by-step approach helps you consolidate and organize your workforce inputs – from business demand to current workforce efficiency – into your own unique “workforce equation” so you don’t become overwhelmed.
Impact and Result
- By automating critical analysis steps, we enable you to take into account key insights about your own staff and explore multiple scenarios for skill sourcing.
- Our approach lets you simplify complex data collection and direct your focus to making decisions where you can bring the most value.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
10.0/10
Overall Impact
115
Average Days Saved
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Impact
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State of Georgia - Technology Authority (GTA)
Guided Implementation
10/10
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115
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Workshop: Build a Data-Driven Workforce Plan: A Critical CIO Exercise
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Establish Scope
The Purpose
Establish scope and goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
Ensure project’s success can be tracked with metrics.
Activities
Outputs
Determine scope and collect information sources
- List of in-scope roles for workforce plan
- List of documentation, data, and stakeholders
Estimate IT demand
Module 2: Define Demand and Supply
The Purpose
Accurately define IT demand and supply based on real-world data.
Key Benefits Achieved
Ensure your estimates are as accurate as possible to make your workforce plan realistic to your unique environment.
Activities
Outputs
Estimate IT demand (continued)
- Preliminary FTE gap analysis for in-scope roles
Refine IT supply gap and identify critical gaps
Module 3: Build Workforce Plan
The Purpose
Make decisions on how to fill critical FTE gaps.
Key Benefits Achieved
Using a data-driven approach helps you accurately estimate the cost and time required to fill key gaps.
Activities
Outputs
Decide on a sourcing strategy for key gaps
- Refined FTE gap analysis for in-scope roles
- Priority gaps identified
Build your workforce plan
Module 4: Finalize Workforce Plan
The Purpose
Ensure your workforce plan takes into account all data available and prepare to communicate to stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
Presenting your workforce plan to key decision makers relies on having a sound analysis presented in a clear and concise way.
Activities
Outputs
Build your workforce plan (continued)
- Sourcing decisions made to fill key gaps
- Executive-ready workforce plan presentation
Create a communication strategy
- Communication plan