Tess Walton - For many years I have helped a lot of organisations with their Workforce Planning, and one of the key tools missing up until now has been effective software. We’ve had access to (and some help from) reporting systems, skills/competency planning, even rostering – but no true Strategic Workforce Planning. I looked and looked – but eventually I realised I would have to make my own, and my team and I are very proud to introduce you to CAPTure™, Aruspex’s flagship Workforce Planning Software.

CAPTure™ uses your internal data, plus demographic, educational and other trends, to let you clearly see what challenges you face with talent in the future – and, more importantly, CAPTure guides you to meet those challenges. Not a blank database waiting for a process to be designed around it, it is ready to enable your workforce planning journey right out of the box.

CAPTure™ transforms your human resources information into insights, highlighting talent challenges inside and outside the organisation. A powerful yet easy to use tool with demographic projections already embedded, it facilitates analysis and scenario planning, and delivers comprehensive, measurable strategic workforce plans. Then it monitors your progress towards the ideal future workforce, alerting you if your plan needs to be adjusted.

CAPTure™ enables you to:

• Instantly see the future profile of your workforce
• Build and compare different scenarios and models
• See and assess the flow-through results of change
• Perform “what if?” analysis
• Develop comprehensive, company wide action plans
• Identify and leverage synergies across the business
• Decentralise your process to engage the entire organisation
• Monitor progress and respond to changes in circumstances

As you can imagine, we are very excited, and our work has already been rewarded with feedback from a leading workforce planner who told us that CAPTure™ is “obviously a very, very impressive tool”. We think you will think so too – read more on our website, or contact us to talk CAPTure! We'll keep you posted on the progress of our early clients over the next few months.

• Institute Workforce Planning as Part of Organisational Strategic Planning
• Provide Clear Guidance
• Ensure the Right Participants
• Lead the Effort—Physically and Intellectually
• Focus on the Business Case
• Monitor Results
• Act

Where this is done, especially in an organisation undergoing change (and who isn't?), RAND concludes that "strategic workforce planning, integrated into the organization’s overall strategic planning, promises very high dividends".

We couldn't agree more!

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