By forecasting, you are building a representation of what the future will look like if current practices continue.  The importance of this is twofold:  first, it may well create the “burning platform” required to place Strategic Workforce Planning on the strategic agenda; and second, it provides the benchmark or control group for measuring and comparing the impact of any actions you take to achieve your future workforce goals. Forecasting helps to identify potential problems or vulnerabilities, such as the erosion of a skill base through an aging workforce, lack of retention of new recruits or mid-career turnover rates. Understandably, executives are not in the market for solutions to problems they don’t see, acknowledge or understand. Forecasting specific potential problems prompts management to fully grasp the consequences of a “no-change future state” so they can go into the next phase, qualitative scenario planning, with a fuller understanding of what’s needed. We can produce these for you, from your own data, with our new No Change Future State™ (NCFS) reports. Created with an organization’s data and trends, NCFS uses our leading CAPTure software to generate profiles by applying internal workforce trends, identifying key issues and checking against labor force projections for demographic red flags. Personalized reports show the eventual result of current turnover trends, and provide different scenarios that examine the impact of likely baby boomer retirements.  This can be a quick, low cost way of giving your Strategic Workforce Planning initiative a boost - read more details about about how we would work with you to produce these  reports and lend our expertise to your organsiation, or contact us to find out more.