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The integration of HR management in the strategic decisions of a company can bring the decisive competitive advantage.

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The right employee, at the right place at the right time – this HR policy goal can only be achieved with strategically oriented workforce planning. A powerful simulation technique is helpful here, as the example of Deutsche Bank shows.

The HR management should plan and ensure the workforce requirements taking into account the corporate strategy. HR managers have to react to imponderables such as the current crisis as well as to the long-term effects of demographic change. So how can HR management prepare for a strategy-compliant provision of personnel taking these and other aspects into account? What distinguishes good strategic workforce planning and which instruments help? The authors answer these questions using a software-based scenario simulation that they use at Evonik and Metro Group.

The economic crisis keeps many HR departments in suspense – and draws attention to the present. Strategies often fall by the wayside. It is important now to be prepared for the future. What is needed is strategic workforce planning that thinks in scenarios and reacts flexibly to changes.

It is undisputed today that Swiss companies are facing a demographic challenge. Which personnel measures should companies use to tackle this challenge and how will such measures have a long-term impact? PostMail, the letter service of Swiss Post, relies on the development of strategic workforce planning, which takes into account the temporal dynamics of the workforce through the use of scenario simulations.

Many companies do not have the right tools for meaningful long-term personnel planning. But making the wrong decisions can prove to be costly. Therefore, the AOK has chosen a tool which enables dynamic, flexible and holistic planning.