The Value of Visibility: Seeing your Workforce Clearly with OrgPublisher
What is visibility? The World English Dictionary defines visibility as clarity of vision or relative possibility of seeing. But for your workforce, visibility means much more. Not only is workforce visibility the ability to see the breadth, depth and make-up of your organization, it also extends to your ability to draw insights based on what you see. Having true visibility of your organization s workforce means having both a basic vision and a deeper knowledge of what or who you need. The Value of Visibility A recent Aberdeen Group study showed that the number one trait among companies with best-in-class human capital management practices was the ability to define the talent required by business needs in terms of skills, behaviors, and attributes. This ability to see where you stand in terms of talent demonstrates the value of workforce visibility. Clearly seeing the talent pool, along with talent gaps and headcount metrics, allows organizations to position and mobilize the right people and strategically align talent with business goals while also controlling workforce costs. It not only lets companies put the right talent in place for new business and growth initiatives, but also allows for strategic succession planning for critical roles, thus enabling smart planning for an organization s future. A better view of your workforce also empowers better decision-making by allowing HR professionals and leaders to share indicative data about the workforce with stakeholders and hiring managers, solidifying HR s ability to deliver on its evolving role in overall business strategy. Visibility Challenges Attaining an accurate picture of your workforce is not without challenges. Often, the manual processes many companies use to generate organizational charts and span-of-control reporting require time and resources that could be better used on strategic workforce initiatives. This is especially true when the data required to build reports and offer insights comes from multiple, disparate data sources or is even worse inaccurate. To make workforce visibility even more challenging, many organizations face an inability to decipher complex workforce metrics once data has been aggregated. And once analytics are compiled, how do you share the most important information with the right people? OrgPublisher, the next-generation automated org charting solution, solves for all of these visibility challenges and simplifies an organization s ability to both see and use workforce reports. It empowers better workforce analysis and planning by providing both basic and strategic workforce visibility. Once we started putting all of our data into an org chart we could see how much of our data was broken. Employees were missing from groups, organizational hierarchies were broken, we had organizations that were reporting to themselves we never realized all of these problems existed until we had a way to visualize them in an org chart. Roy Lee, HRIS Specialist, NASA To download the full case study,
Basic Visibility Simply being able to visualize the breadth and depth of your organization requires a robust tool that allows you to instantly access and generate accurate org charts. OrgPublisher s automation does just that, gathering input from multiple data sources and HRIS applications and presenting metrics that are easy to understand for the everyday HR user and line managers. The intuitive interface is easy to use, and data is presented with such clarity that organizations can quickly identify any errors in source data. For basic visibility needs, OrgPublisher lets you produce enterprise-wide and departmental org charts, plus charts and reports showing managers span of control, headcount and open positions. Reports can be filtered by a number of criteria from performance rating to department. In addition, the employee search functionality means being able to find employees by name, skill set and more. Seeing the data in OrgPublisher helped us notice some unusual naming conventions we had in SAP. For example, an org unit name of Corporate Finance is logical, but some regions use of unknown acronyms or simplistic org unit names such as Joe Smith s team give no information on what that org unit really does. Now we know what each team really does due to the visibility of the information in the org charts. Joann Aronis, Senior HRIS Manager, Tenneco To download the full case study, Automated org charts make it easy to see the breadth and depth of departments and managers span of control.
Strategic Visibility Effective organizational planning requires tools that let you look forward and engage in strategic planning. One area where this is critical is succession planning. OrgPublisher allows you not only to see where critical roles exist within your organization, but also to evaluate potential successors for those roles to avoid talent gaps and stalls in important business initiatives. Within OrgPublisher s succession planning report, for example, users can quickly see which roles are critical and whether or not a succession plan is in place, plus lists of potential successors. The ability to search by key skill coverage and sort successors by performance rating also simplifies succession planning processes. For even more visibility into the future of your organization, OrgPublisher has innovative modeling capabilities. Users can use the tool to model whatif scenarios and see the impact of organizational change. This strategic visibility is invaluable to companies who are truly looking to align talent with business goals. Once Modeling is deployed, we ll be able to get those key KPI s for each store and model whatif scenarios to make the best possible labor management plans and we ll be able to do it with the click of a button. Today, the process is painful. We ve seen an immediate ROI on time and effort. John D Anna, SVP-CIO, Brookshire Grocery Co. To download full case study, 9-box reports show critical roles and potential successors with performance ratings.
Sharing the Visibility For socializing reports with hiring managers and C-level executives, OrgPublisher s extensive chart printing and exporting capabilities enable quick, accurate access to information in whatever format is most suitable for your audience, from presentation decks to booklets. For even faster access, OrgPublisher Executive is the mobile companion product for the ipad that places workforce intelligence directly into the hands of mobile executives. We spent millions to implement SAP it worked well and nobody batted an eye. But when we brought OrgPublisher in for considerably less money and created great-looking charts people lost their minds. Right away we had requests for all kinds of different charts. Pat Angarano, Director of HRIS, New York Power Authority To download full case study, OrgPublisher Executive provides mobile access to headcount reports and more from the ipad. There are a number of org charting solutions on the market. But only OrgPublisher provides workforce visibility via charts and reporting that are automated, accurate and easy to use. It s an enterprise-wide solution for seeing your workforce and seeing its impact. Learn More About the Visibility OrgPublisher Can Provide Get 30 days of workforce visibility at no cost. Sign up for a free trial today! Attend our Creating Workforce Visibility webinar. Register today!
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