It’s almost the end of another year, and we at Aruspex thought it was about time that we looked back at the year that has been. 2008 has brought many changes in the business world, and like you, Aruspex has been busier than ever.
The economic shift showed just how valuable workforce planning is. Our clients were able to model potential staffing changes and understand both the short term and long term impact of decisions, which brought both attention and respect from high level executives, and prevented damaging “knee jerk” reactions!
In October, for the first time the
HR Technology Conference had two sessions about workforce planning because, as they said, “it’s that important”. Of course, our session with our
client Aetna's presentation was the best!
Aruspex has been busy in other areas, and were featured in lots of press articles throughout 2008. We gave webinars with
HR.COM, the
Human Capital Institute,
The Conference Board and of course to our own customer community. As well, we became a fully venture funded company, closing $4m in series A funding in April.
Our new research, “
How to be a Great Workforce Planner” and “
Business Value of Workforce Planning”, has also helped workforce planners around the world build better workforce planning approaches, and we
blogged regularly on workforce planning issues. Finally, this newsletter is now over four years old, and has become a trusted monthly resource for more than a thousand workforce planners around the globe – and you can expect to see more of our thought leadership and research in workforce planning every year!
Workforce planning has become a global phenomenon and is spreading across all industries – fast becoming THE activity that separates HR leaders from laggards. At
Aruspex, we have been working with employers in industries as diverse as mining, retail, education, public sector, energy, insurance and transport (to name just a few), and have even helped an entire industry tackle their workforce challenges together. Wherever you are on your workforce planning journey, Aruspex is here to assist you.
We’d like to end the year by looking forward to 2009 – looking forward like all good planners do! Many organizations will kick off their workforce planning initiatives this year, and we’ll be there to mentor, coach and help. We’ll also be launching a range of exciting new tools and aids for workforce planners. If you’d like to join the raft of organizations using workforce planning to build a solid foundation for their talent management in the new year,
give us a call and we’ll help you build the business case to get going - and to join our customers as highly successful workforce planners.
Happy holidays from the team at Aruspex!
