Companies are facing challenges like an aging workforce, skills shortages, and changing business needs. Many are turning to strategic workforce planning (SWP) to help address these challenges and align human capital with corporate goals. However, Asian organisations have been slower to adopt SWP. The document discusses a congress on SWP and workforce analytics that will provide information on developing and implementing effective SWP, leveraging data and analytics, and case studies from various companies on their SWP journeys.

1. Companies today are grappling with an approaching retirement wave and
accompanying loss of skills, current and projected labour shortages, globalisation,
growing use of a contingent workforce, mergers and acquisitions, as well as
evolution of technology and tools. Increasingly, many companies are turning
to Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) to help tackle these challenges and
effectively align their human capital to corporate goals. However, organisations
in Asia are considered to have somehow lagged behind their peers in this area.
“What is SWP? How is it different from our annual manpower budgeting?”
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Building Organisational Capabilities & Future-Ready Workforce to Execute Business Strategy
This jam-packed one day congress is designed to guide you
through the strategy development to enable the integration
of workforce planning and analytics within business planning
which aligns to business strategy in the context of ever-
changing workforce, technological and social change.
These 2 highly interactive, hands-on workshops is a how-to-
guide filled with practical and targeted case studies on the what,
why and how of SWP & analytics and how you can efficiently
apply them to your business.
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“Where do we start with our implementation and whom to engage?
“We are just started and we’re not there yet! Where do we get the required data to develop our plan?”
One of the hottest topics in 2016, the Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics has been developed with the industry to
address the above challenges and ensure your organisation has the right people in the right places at the right time and
at the right price to execute your business strategy.
Alexander Joramsa
CFO, GEHC ASEAN
GE HEALTHCARE
Sriram Iyer
Director –
Workforce Planning
& Management,
APAC & ME
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Narasimhan S L
Director – Head of
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Binayak Bagchi
Director HR,
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Aparna Kumar
Regional Human
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Neil Persaud
Regional VP
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Anuradha Purbey
HR Director
SINGAPORE AVIVA

2. KEY LEARNINGS:
• Equip yourself with solid understanding of
the key features of an effective strategic
workforce plan, skills and business
capabilities that need to be incorporated
• Gain thorough knowledge of the available
frameworks, models and roadmaps for
tying in SWP with business objectives and
budget planning
• Foster meaningful, ongoing conversation
with business leaders to understand the
business strategy and to discuss the
workforce implications at a strategic level
to get their buy-in
• Evaluate the long-term impacts of various
staffing options and create a stronger
internal job market to manage critical
talent shortage
• Leverage the full potential of workforce
analytics to identify trends in historical
workforce data, resulted in better
understanding of the dynamics of the
workforce
• Embark on predictive analytics journey
to forecast talent need and close the gap
between your existing workforce supply
and future workforce demand
+PLUS
MUST-ATTEND FOR:
• Chief HR Decision Makers
• VPs / Directors / Heads / Managers who are tasked with developing strategic HR initiatives:
• Strategic Workforce Planning
• Workforce Planning & Management
• HR Policy, Planning & Strategy
• Talent Management & Development
• HR Technology/HRIS
• Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
• Organisational Design & Development
• HR Business Partner
• HR Transformation
Day 1: Congress
THE FIRESIDE CONVERSATION –
THE VIEW FROM THE TOP
The Right People in the Right Places:
Mitigating Workforce & Business Risks
through SWP
THINK TANK
Revisiting Your SWP Roadmap: It’s Time
To Question Your Traditional Models as
Business Change Strategy in the VUCA
World!
EXPERT-LED INTERACTIVE BREAKOUT
SESSIONS: HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
What barriers are you facing in SWP &
Analytics and how to overcome them?
WORKSHOP 1: Strategic Workforce Planning: Why?
What? Who? How?
WORKSHOP 2: Unlocking Big Data: How to Start the
Workforce Analytics Journey
Day 2: Workshop
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3. CONGRESS | Wednesday | 17 February 2016
8.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.00am
OPENING ADDRESS BY GUEST-OF-HONOUR
Implementing SWP & Building Up Muscle for Sustainable Future-Ready Workforce
10.45am MORNING REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
10.00am
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
Cognizant’s SWP Change Management Journey: Adapting to Meet the Evolving Business Needs
Cognizant recognised the need to leverage SWP to address changing and evolving talent needs. Undeniably, it triggers change in the
organisation. To ensure sustainability, Cognizant incorporated change methodology. They set the climate of change with business partners
and provide them with valuable data to enlist their support and commitment.
How Cognizant actually wrapped all aspects of its change model, including communication, around its SWP efforts to enable success?
This session will walk you through the change management curve of Cognizant in embedding SWP into their business planning. Learn:
• Why, How & When: Designing & implementing a SWP model for bottom line growth?
• How the workforce planning function has evolved to adapt to different phases of the company growth?
• How to ensure seamless integration of internal data & latest workforce planning technologies to drive productivity and demonstrate ROI?
Sriram Iyer
Director – Workforce Planning & Management, APAC & ME
Cognizant
9.15am
THE FIRESIDE CONVERSATION – VIEW FROM THE TOP
The Right People in the Right Places: Mitigating Workforce & Business Risks through SWP
Many business leaders have not adapted their workforce planning practices to match the pace at which they must execute their business
strategy. They constantly adjust the markets where they compete, the products they offer, and the customers they serve. However, decisions
about hiring and developing the critical talent required to carry out these plans are unconnected frequently.
Join our panel of top business leaders from public and private sectors and examine the gap between current workforce planning practices and
outcomes compared to what business leaders would like to achieve. Explore:
• How global trends – technological advances, globalisation, retiring baby boomers, increasing talent shortages, transform the business
landscape and human capital outlook in public and private sectors?
• What are the top 5 key talent challenges ahead and recommended approaches to tackling them strategically?
• Why do companies have so much difficulty development effective workforce plans?
• How can HR shift the workforce discussion to focus on business requirements?
Confirmed Panellist:
Alexander Joramsa
CFO, GEHC ASEAN
GE Healthcare
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4. 12.00nn
PUBLIC SECTOR FOCUS
Engaging Your Top Executives in SWP: EBD’s Guide to Effective Conversations
HR has been talking about becoming a strategic business partner and trusted advisor to executives for years. SWP gives HR the opportunity to
have seat at the strategy table. For this to happen, the conversation needs to focus initially on business strategy. HR needs to lead the process
of helping business leaders understand how changing business strategy creates new workforce demands.
This session will highlight how SWP at EDB is as much a strategic business planning process as a workforce management process. Learn:
• How get your business leaders engaged and willing to act on it and own it?
• How to make your SWP process a two-way meaningful conversation between your team and each business unit?
• How to make your line managers understand your workforce plans and strategies when they make day-to-day decisions?
Ng Ying Yuan
Director, Human Resources & Organisation Development
Singapore Economic Development Board
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12.45pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
11.15am
THINK TANK:
Revisiting Your SWP Roadmap: It’s Time To Question Your Traditional Models as Business Change
Strategy in the VUCA World!
Many organisations are facing unprecedented challenges, from increased competition for talent and growing disengagement among
employees to rising demand for flexible work arrangements. In the past, we look at closing talent gaps through build versus buy decisions.
The current strategies are looking at how we can find a solution that balances contrasting needs for High Potentials development, retention,
redeployment, contingency roles, and recruitment.
Join a panel of experts to learn about latest trends and leading practical examples of implementing SWP. Find out:
• What is the best way to maintain a holistic organisational view that connects stakeholders top down and bottom up in other specialities
of HR and across functions in IT, marketing and finance?
• How can you connect the dots between SWP and strategic analytics?
• What are Talent Action Plan Strategies to close workforce gaps that arise from changing business strategies?
Panellists:
Narasimhan S L
Director – Head of Talent
Acquisition APAC & HR Head for
SE Asia
State Street
Binayak Bagchi
Director HR, Asia Pacific –
Restorative Therapies Group
Medtronic
Neil Persaud
Regional VP Human Resource &
Business Excellence
Arkadin
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1.45pm
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
Taking the Journey to SWP Powered by Talent Analytics
Workforce planning is still leveraged by most companies as an annual exercise in which human capital spending is managed as a cost without
considering the talent needed to meet business objectives.
HR and business units already have plenty of useful workforce data distributed across business functions, but how can they start leveraging
this data, connect and analyse it to have a clearer view of the workforce, workforce costs, and workforce-related impacts of business
transformation?
This session will feature the process, success factors, pitfalls and other valuable lessons of leading organisation’s journey from reporting to
strategic use of data insights for workforce planning. Uncover:
• What does it take to transition from basic reporting to strategic workforce analytics?
• How does talent analytics enable SWP?
• How talent analytics can help decide how and who to hire, how and who to let go, and most importantly, how to change to make the best
business decisions?

5. 2.30pm
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
Enabling SWP: At the Intersection of Business Needs & Analytics
When execution of a critical business initiative relies heavily on securing talent that is in short supply and high demand, how can workforce
planning and analytics provide insights that ensure the organisation has the talent it needs to succeed, in this extremely tight labour market?
Discover how leading organisation drives workforce planning best practices to:
• Identifying “high risk” talent pools and adopting analytics to gain greater insights about these talent pools
• Leveraging predictive analytics to accurately forecast demand versus supply gaps
• Partnering with finance and building alignment between business leaders to create better pipelines for talent gaps
3.45pm
CASE STUDY PRESENTATION
Workforce Analytics of the Future: Using Predictive Analytics to Forecast Talent Need
In today’s rapidly transforming labour landscape, more and more forward-thinking companies are increasingly resorting to predictive analytics
as part of their SWP process.
This session highlights how Monsanto is adopting predictive analytics to understand and forecast where talent will be plentiful and scarce,
how talent will move between roles, what skills and competencies are required to fill the critical jobs and how the skills gap can be filled in
their workforce. Learn:
• What, why & how of predictive analytics and how you can efficiently apply it to forecast your talent needs?
• What are key challenges to use of predictive analytics and how to overcome them?
• How to begin applying predictive analytics?
Aparna Kumar
Regional Human Resource Lead – Asia Pacific
Monsanto
3.15pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
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In this dynamic, intimate and interactive session, you will participate in a small-group discussion to voice your opinions and experiences and
ask questions that are most pertinent to you and your organisation. A forward-thinking subject matter expert will host, guide and summarise the
discussion at the end of the session.
Discussion points:
• What barriers are you facing in SWP & Analytics and how are you overcoming them?
• The roadmap – How to ensure its alignment with existing HR & business processes?
• The dilemmas – What to prioritise, what infrastructure to buy/build? How to develop the necessary capabilities in HR function?
• Business “buy-in” – how to ensure all the business leaders have full business understanding and ownership over the workforce planning
process?
Moderator:
Narasimhan S L
Director – Head of Talent Acquisition APAC & HR Head for SE Asia
State Street
4.30pm Expert-Led Interactive Breakout Sessions: Have Your Voice Heard!
5.30pm END OF CONFERENCE
Anuradha Purbey
HR Director
Singapore Aviva Ltd

6. 8.30am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
WORKSHOP | Thursday | 18 February 2016
9.00am Part I: Strategic Workforce Planning: Why? What? Who? How?
This workshop is a how-to-guide filled with practical and targeted case studies on the what, why and how of SWP and how you can
efficiently apply it to your business.
Module Outline:
• What is SWP and how to position SWP with your C-level executives in a way which engages them?
• What are the causes of SWP failure to deliver business outcomes?
• The difference between SWP, operational workforce planning & resource planning?
• What are the critical elements in SWP, ways to prioritising organisational risks and tools to connecting SWP into the business planning
cycle?
• What are the key capabilities required for successful SWP?
WORKSHOP 1
10.30am MORNING REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
11.00am Part II: Strategic Workforce Planning: Why? What? Who? How?
12.30pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
This interactive, hands-on workshop is designed to help HR professionals use data and analytics to drive better business outcomes. Guided
by an end-to-end view of workforce analytics, you will take part in interactive modules focused on equipping you with the information,
framework and steps required to get started and be successful with workforce analytics.
Module Outline:
• How workforce analytics can deliver a holistic understanding of your employees and enable you to focus more on strategy, less on
data manipulation?
• How to adopt workforce analytics to address your key business priorities?
• How to interact with data within a workforce analytics solution?
• How to build evidence based business cases in support of strategic decisions using credible business language
• How to interpret and analyse information and communicate these insights effectively to all stakeholders?
WORKSHOP 2
1.30pm Part I: Unlocking Big Data: How to Start the Workforce Analytics Journey
3.30pm Part II: Unlocking Big Data: How to Start the Workforce Analytics Journey
3.00pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
5.00pm END OF WORKSHOP
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