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Introduction

Using your valuable skilled resources optimally seems like an unattainable nirvana, an illusion that can never be achieved. Just when you believe you have the right mix of skills and experience – at a cost that allows for a respectable profit margin or meets key business targets / measures of success – events conspire to spoil the party. For global events like recessions or pandemics, it spoils everyone’s party! Or organisations that operate in highly competitive and/or regulated industries, this balancing act between resource demand and supply is never-ending. It is not just commercial organisations that face this challenge. The public sector and government funded organisations must balance needs against local and central government funding. Regardless of where you operate, the penalties are the same. Failure to deliver can result in fines, loss of reputation or worse, if lives are placed at risk.

That puts the onus on planners and management to resolve immediate issues and problems. Placing greater effort in the near term is bound to impact longer term planning. A lack of focus on trends, future organisational requirements, and the needs of those precious resources that cost so much – your people – plus the need to maintain and replace expensive assets and equipment further erodes available time. Just another set of variables for an organisation to contend with. Welcome to the day-of-the-life of a workforce planner, trainer, manager, executive.

For organisations that operate in highly competitive and/or regulated industries, this balancing act between resource demand and supply is never-ending.