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2021-12-08T21:44:48+01:00
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/dynaplan-becomes-part-of-orgvue-5948
Dynaplan becomes part of Orgvue
2021-12-08T21:44:48+01:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Dynaplan’s technology will work hand in hand with Orgvue’s leading organizational planning and design platform to make end-to-end workforce planning a reality for businesses.
<p>Orgvue adds strategic workforce planning to its portfolio with the acquisition of Dynaplan.</p>
<p>Dynaplan’s technology will work hand in hand with Orgvue’s leading organizational planning and design platform to make end-to-end workforce planning a reality for businesses.</p>
<p>For Dynaplan customers, Orgvue offers position-level modelling and visualisation. Together we provide a unique, two-way link between the strategy and the people of organisations.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="https://www.orgvue.com/news/concentra-analytics-adds-strategic-workforce-planning-to-its-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-dynaplan/"><span>Read the full press release</span><em class="_icon-external-white"> </em></a></p>
https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/best-paper-award-praxis-5947
Best Paper Award Praxis
2021-05-14T09:33:35+02:00
Dr Philipp Wunderlich
philipp.wunderlich@dynaplan.com
The Best Paper Award Praxis 2020 was granted to the authors of Driver based simulation in controlling at Infineon by the journal Controlling.
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<p>The Best Paper Award Praxis 2020 was granted to the authors of <em>Driver based simulation in controlling at Infineon</em> by the journal <em>Controlling</em>.</p>
<p>The paper describes how Infineon set up and uses Dynaplan’s dynamic business planning solutions to support the evolvement of controllers towards business partners. By using driver-based simulation models, efforts for generating aggregated financial predictions have been reduced, providing more time for value-adding activities.</p>
<p>The paper shows that driver-based simulation models serve as an efficient communication platform that supports a quick deduction of insights based on multiple scenarios and statistical uncertainty analysis. Hence, controllers are better able to evaluate the sensitivity of financial forecasts, thereby supporting them in their new role as sparring partners to decision makers. These qualities of driver-based simulation models ensure that companies can make smart decisions, especially in times of great uncertainty.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/news/driver-based-simulation-in-managerial-accounting-at-infineon-5937"><span>Learn more and read the full paper</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
<p>You can learn more about driver-based simulation in managerial accounting at our free webinars.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events?upcoming-tag=11&past-tag=11"><span>Sign up for an upcoming webinar</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/planning-is-everything.-the-plan-is-nothing.-5946
Planning is everything. The plan is nothing.
2021-03-31T20:02:33+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
The year 2020 went differently for all of us than we expected. All plans had to be revised, and the pandemic dynamics are still not broken. The above quotation from Eisenhower underlines the value of planning in the current time. The description of possible future time paths and targets in the context of the planning is and remains a central value, even if the plan itself has to be adapted again and again.
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<p>The year 2020 went differently for all of us than we expected. All plans had to be revised, and the pandemic dynamics are still not broken. The above quotation from Eisenhower underlines the value of planning in the current time. The description of possible future time paths and targets in the context of the planning is and remains a central value, even if the plan itself has to be adapted again and again.</p>
<p>In the context of workforce management, this understanding fits particularly well and we are pleased that Gartner, one of the leading providers of market research results and analyses, includes the topic of workforce planning in a current article. In particular, the importance of strategic personnel planning is underlined with a reference to Dynaplan. Read more about this in this newsletter.</p>
<p>On our side, too, we continue to strengthen the toolbox for thinking in scenarios. Our next HR practice group on 18 May will elaborate on this. We hope to see as many of you as possible in the digital format.</p>
<p>We wish you continued confidence for the upcoming planning rounds and a happy Easter.</p>
<p>Your Dynaplan team</p>
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<h3>Dynaplan’s SWP solution featured as tool of choice in Gartner report</h3>
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<p>Dynaplan is featured as a global player in strategic workforce planning in the Gartner report <em>Workforce Planning — How to Use Technology to Support Planning Processes</em>.</p>
<p>The study describes how qualitative conversations and storytelling still dominate the process of identifying action plans at the strategic level, with little technology support beyond generic productivity suites. The research firm advises organisations to instead invest in a portfolio of specialized solutions.</p>
<p>In particular, the article highlights how long-range planning using scenario simulation plays a key role in identifying the best course of action, further reinforcing Dynaplan’s approach as the best-of-breed solution for strategic workforce planning.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3982815/workforce-planning-how-to-use-technology-to-support-plan"><span>Get the article</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>It is our great pleasure to invite all our customers to the next HR practice group on 18 May. Due to the ongoing circumstances, we will again meet virtually. We will share best practice approaches to specific strategic workforce planning (SWP) questions and further develop our methodology and toolbox to enhance the contribution that SWP can bring in the respective organisations. This time, we will especially look for ways to enhance the scenario methodology, and discuss options to increase the impact of the resulting HR measures. This event is free of charge and exclusively for our customers.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events/hr-practice-group-18-may-2021-09-00-101"><span>Learn more and sign up</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>The <em>Best Paper Award Praxis 2020</em> was granted to the authors of <em>Driver based simulation in controlling at Infineon</em> by the journal <em>Controlling</em>. The paper describes how Infineon set up and uses Dynaplan’s dynamic business planning solutions to support the evolvement of controllers towards business partners. By using driver-based simulation models, efforts for generating aggregated financial predictions have been reduced, providing more time for value-adding activities.</p>
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<p>The Swiss federal railways SBB employs over 30 000 men and women in 150 different occupations. Planning and managing those capacities is an important cornerstone of the organisation. Dispersed processes have now been merged into a holistic and company-wide approach, integrating both a quantitative perspective on the workforce development as well as a qualitative view on the changes ahead. Topics include the ongoing digitalization of many activities, and the resulting impact on required competencies in the different professions. We are proud that SBB has chosen Dynaplan’s methodology and toolset to support the rollout of this new approach in the different business units.</p>
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<p>Infineon has been using Dynaplan Smia for <a href="/news/driver-based-simulation-in-managerial-accounting-at-infineon-5937">driver-based simulations in managerial accounting</a> for several years now. We are happy that our solutions are now also used for strategic workforce planning. Complementary to the existing portfolio, Dynaplan adds a forward-looking perspective to classical reporting and analytics systems. To accomplish this, Infineon benefits from Dynaplan’s certified interface to SAP BW. Simulations and HR plans that distinguish between location, organisational unit, and job cluster can be created and updated at the push of a button. Lars Peuker, head of people analytics says:</p>
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<p>Working with scenarios is one of the best tools available for making good strategic decisions. With Smia 2.0.1, we’ve simplified scenario comparison significantly. We are now building a new version of our HR library cockpit around the new concept.</p>
<p>Instead of you having to manually add scenario comparisons to each view, we can pre-make comparisons for you using the reference scenario feature. All you have to do is change the reference, and all the comparison spreadsheets and charts update to point to the values of your choice. This allows you to quickly compare various scenarios with your current working model, and to put any two scenarios side by side in the cockpits by restoring one and picking the other as a reference.</p>
<p>When we roll out these new cockpits to your models, you will be able to experience the future more clearly than ever before.</p>
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<p>Our platform for technical support has received a big overhaul. It is now more user friendly and more secure. Creation of technical support tickets from inside Smia has also been improved.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/dynaplans-swp-solution-featured-as-tool-of-choice-in-gartner-report-5944
Dynaplan’s SWP solution featured as tool of choice in Gartner report
2021-03-28T01:00:00+01:00
Mr John Huertas
john.huertas@dynaplan.com
The article highlights how long-range planning using scenario simulation plays a key role in identifying the best course of action, further reinforcing Dynaplan’s approach as the best-of-breed solution for strategic workforce planning.
<p>Dynaplan is featured as a global player in strategic workforce planning in the Gartner report <em>Workforce Planning — How to Use Technology to Support Planning Processes</em>.</p>
<p>The study describes how qualitative conversations and storytelling still dominate the process of identifying action plans at the strategic level, with little technology support beyond generic productivity suites. The research firm advises organisations to instead invest in a portfolio of specialized solutions.</p>
<p>In particular, the article highlights how long-range planning using scenario simulation plays a key role in identifying the best course of action, further reinforcing Dynaplan’s approach as the best-of-breed solution for strategic workforce planning.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3982815/workforce-planning-how-to-use-technology-to-support-plan"><span>Get the article</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/technical-support-overhauled-5945
Technical support overhauled
2021-03-27T13:07:59+01:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Our platform for technical support has received a big overhaul. You'll notice that the user interface has been updated. It is now mobile-friendly, with a look-and-feel consistent with the rest of our website.
<p>Our platform for technical support has received a big overhaul. You'll notice that the user interface has been updated. It is now mobile-friendly, with a look-and-feel consistent with the rest of our website. Technical support is now using the same modern framework that is running most other parts of our website, providing increased security and maintainability.</p>
<p>The main functionality of technical support has proved to work well, after being in active use for more than 15 years without big changes. Therefore we have chosen not to change the functionality in any major way, and you should feel right at home in the overhauled ticket system. We have, however, made lots of smaller changes and improvements that we hope you will enjoy, for example when it comes to search and filtering, the text editor, and attachments.</p>
<p>Creation of technical support tickets from inside Smia has also been improved. It is now possible to upload attachments, for instance the currently open model, when you create a ticket. To create a technical support ticket, please go to <samp>Help | Help us improve...</samp> inside Smia. If you experience issues while working with Smia, please do not hesitate using this functionality to let us know.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/dynaplan-smia-version-2.0.1-5943
Dynaplan Smia version 2.0.1
2020-12-21T21:04:49+01:00
Mr Yngve Mellingen
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Dynaplan Smia 2.0 service release 1 is ready for download. This version introduces, among other features, metadata import, online gaming, and dynamically calculated number formats. In addition, we’ve overhauled the value out of bounds dialog, optimized several processes for speed, and improved many other parts of Smia important to the end-user.
<p style="font-weight: 400">Dynaplan Smia 2.0 service release 1 is ready for download. In this version, we’ve taken our gaming feature online, allowing users to participate in workshops where they compete and learn in a simulated environment from the comfort of their home office.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">The data import feature has been expanded to handle metadata changes, error reporting has been improved, and performance has been enhanced in several areas.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400">A new, compatible version of the Smia app for iOS will also be released shortly. It includes all the relevant improvements from the desktop version.</p>
<p>As the world remains forced to work from home whenever possible, more tools for online collaboration and learning are needed. Smia has long allowed users to take on specific roles in simulated companies and play games where they try to navigate the complexities of the virtual environment to produce the best outcome, having fun and learning a lot along the way. However, the feature required a local area network, restricting its use to in-person workshops. Now, we have ported this functionality to an online platform, allowing for virtual educational gaming sessions for anyone with an Internet connection. Watch for gaming workshop announcements from us and our partners on our <a href="/events">event page</a>.</p>
<p>Our other main focus with this release has been to polish and improve the features of Smia 2.0. To that end, we have made quite a lot of improvements, for the benefit of our three main user groups. Here are some examples:</p>
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<p>The reference scenario can now take on a much more prominent role in cockpits, as chart items and tables can be set to shift their displayed data based on which scenario is now the reference. The model doesn’t even need any scenarios present to set this up, so cockpits can be pre-configured with scenario comparisons to a much greater extent.</p>
<h2>The planner</h2>
<p>Importing data from other Smia models now allow for updating the metadata of the importing model, allowing for much greater flexibility in collaboration model setups. Importing from Excel and CSV has also received improvements, in user interface and the intelligence of merging imported data into the model. The new out of bounds error window is non-blocking and dockable, and it allows you to correct errors inline for input variables, or otherwise locate the exact cell where the error occurs using the dimension subscripts now displayed in the window.</p>
<h2>The decision maker</h2>
<p>The dynamic number format adjusts decimals and significance to the value clusters you’re looking at, tailoring the view to the optimal settings no matter the situation. Looking through large spreadsheets are now significantly faster.</p>
<p>These are just some of the new features we have included in Smia 2.0 service release 1. To see the full list of improvements and fixes, please see the <a href="/technology/smia/download/smia-2.0-service-release-1-87#version-history">version history</a>.</p>
<p>Feel free to visit the <a href="/technology/smia/vote-for-features">suggestions page</a> whenever you like to request new features for upcoming versions.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<p>Please download the setup file from <a href="/technology/smia/download/smia-2.0-service-release-1-87">Downloads</a>. Then run the setup programme and start Smia. Follow the instructions provided on the screen to activate Smia.</p>
<p>See the <a href="/forum.php?page=forum&fid=11">forum</a> for more details or asking for help.</p>
https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/i-didnt-know-i-wanted-this-5942
I didn’t know I wanted this
2020-10-19T12:08:27+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Over the years I have smiled many times when thinking back at the Christmas eve when our son, then in his fifth year, unwrapped the present from his sister, who had just turned seven. Bursting with pride and expectation she watched her brother reveal the white felt mouse she had made for him. Softly, he uttered: — I didn’t know I wanted this…
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<p>Over the years I have smiled many times when thinking back at the Christmas eve when our son, then in his fifth year, unwrapped the present from his sister, who had just turned seven. Bursting with pride and expectation she watched her brother reveal the white felt mouse she had made for him. Softly, he uttered:</p>
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<p>— I didn’t know I wanted this…</p>
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<p>I share this story with you because of its relevance to innovation in the context of planning. Markets normally value solutions according to their score along known dimensions, such as certain features and cost. Solutions that introduce new possibilities may not receive appropriate recognition. Customers might miss out on a solution that would actually help them, just because it is not on the radar of procurement.</p>
<p>COVID-19 comes on top of strong transients caused by digitalisation, automation, climate, and more. Among our customers we observe a growing need for transformation in all areas. New competencies are in demand, while the need for other decline.</p>
<p>Cause-and-effect-based simulation is greatly underestimated as a solution for planning, especially in turbulent times.</p>
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<p>— Do organisations know that they want simulation?</p>
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<p>As one of our readers, you probably know all this. Under <a href="#solutions">Solutions</a>, further down, you may find some inspiration from two recent examples from sectors under pressure: healthcare and aviation.</p>
<p>If you are a customer with interest in HR, don’t forget to sign up for the <a href="#community">HR practice group</a> announced below.</p>
<p>The news just reached us that one of our SWP customers, WFP (World Food Programme), is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020. We are pleased by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, hoping that it will lead to more freedom and less suffering.</p>
<p>With warm wishes for your safety and your quality of life,<br>
Your Dynaplan team</p>
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<li>Optimising patient flow during and after the pandemic</li>
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<p>Due to travel restrictions we decided to conduct the last HR practice group in the virtual space. This resulted in a record number of participants. The exchange with the community emphasised that scenario based strategic workforce planning can significantly contribute to making the right decisions on the way out of the crisis. As a concrete outcome two initiatives are launched:</p>
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<p>The training helps users make use of advanced features for creating flexible custom charts and getting more value out of their models with only a few clicks. The inter-company setting strengthens the networking in the community, in addition to a better cost-benefit ratio for all participants.</p>
<p>The impact of digitalisation and automation will be covered in a subgroup of our community. This group was fully booked immediately. However, we are looking forward to sharing the results during our next HR practice group.</p>
<p>Please save the date for the next HR practice group on 27 October, again in a remote format including breakout sessions to get room for more interaction as well. As always, the practice group is free of charge and exclusively for our customers.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events/hr-practice-group-27-oct-2020-at-10-85"><span>Sign up now</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Because our customer promise is: <em>we care</em>, Dynaplan has run a survey with a sample of our customers to further understand how our technology can better serve their needs. We are excited to see how our customers, as they grow in maturity using their planning models, are looking for further improvements in four specific areas: transparency, efficiency, visualisation, and sharing. We are pleased to see that customer feedback centres on core objectives behind Smia, encouraging us to further strengthen these areas.</p>
<p>The feedback has already been discussed and prioritised, and new initiatives are in motion to improve our technology. Dynaplan would like to thank our customers for participating in the survey. We look forward to sharing the improvements in the upcoming Smia releases!</p>
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<p><em>– One of the first thoughts that came to mind when we became aware of COVID-19 here at the hospital, was to give Dynaplan a call</em>, says Pål Ove Vadset, head of Section for Health Service Development at Helse Bergen, Norway.</p>
<p>Variation in supply and demand is relevant not only during the pandemic; fluctuations are normal for healthcare service provides. To assist planning in stable as well as turbulent times, two simulation models were developed in the context of COVID-19: <em>Patient flow balancer</em> and <em>Patient flow metrics</em>. The latter provides insight into the as-is situation, while the balancer is used for identifying efficient policies to address current and potential challenges.</p>
<p>The solution can be adapted for use by any provider of secondary healthcare services.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/news/optimising-patient-flow-during-and-after-the-pandemic-5941"><span>Read more</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Aviation is among the industries that have experienced the largest drop in demand due to COVID-19. Lufthansa uses our models to plan a return to normal within the next years.</p>
<p>As the world market leader for MRO (maintenance, repair, overhaul) services, Lufthansa Technik AG expanded its strategic workforce planning several years ago. The company employs several thousand qualified specialists worldwide, whose training is strictly regulated by aviation law and must therefore be planned well in advance. The current crisis has hit the aviation industry very hard as a whole, and the scenarios for further developments are still uncertain.</p>
<p>The development of strategic workforce planning abilities is now paying off. Planning models are used to clarify the essential HR risks very quickly, considering different possible recovery scenarios, exploring corresponding options, and thus making good HR decisions also in times of great uncertainty.</p>
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<p>Dynaplan and Korn Ferry have partnered to develop a cutting-edge simulation model and process to explore the impact of COVID-19 on key financial and workforce drivers at Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity. The solution helps the planning team balance the sustainability of workforce and business decisions across scenarios of low, medium, and high impact of COVID-19. In particular, it:</p>
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<li>leverages the job family mapping from Korn Ferry’s Talent Hub, as well as external trend data on market disruption</li>
<li>offers a user friendly yet powerful “slice and slide” user interface to efficiently navigate cross-sections of the workforce</li>
<li>provides an innovative dual perspective of liquidity (short term) and solvency (long term)</li>
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<p>The approach dramatically reduces the lead up time in SWP, places the planner in the driver’s seat, and ties workforce and financial planning together. Furthermore, the toolset can be applied to organisations undergoing disruptive changes or responding to major external trends beyond COVID-19, such as companies merging, responding to digitalisation, etc.</p>
<p>Currently in the final stage of the project, the solution will be placed in the hands of Marie Curie’s operational directors to accurately anticipate challenges, enable critical thinking and aid decision making as Marie Curie faces further disruption relating to COVID-19. Now more than ever, we cannot predict the future, but we can use simulation to experience it, and shape it.</p>
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<p>The step from strategic business simulation to business gaming is short; both can be labelled “serious play”. At their best, both provide interactive, engaging, creative, motivating, eye-opening, and fun learning experiences.</p>
<p>For a long time, Dynaplan has offered “serious games”. In the <em>SWP transition game</em>, you compete to find the best ways to transform the workforce in a company introducing automation. The <em>VUCA game</em> is another example, where players join as teams with a mission to steer a company operating in an environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.</p>
<p>Demand for working and participating remotely has risen dramatically in recent times. Therefore, we have expanded our gaming support from LAN (and VPN) networks to the Internet as well. With online gaming, you can participate in gaming sessions held anywhere via encrypted channels. The feature will be available in the upcoming Smia 2.0 service release 1, to be released this fall.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/optimising-patient-flow-during-and-after-the-pandemic-5941
Optimising patient flow during and after the pandemic
2020-10-19T10:34:38+02:00
Mr Magne Myrtveit
magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Right from the start it was clear that COVID-19 would have an impact both on supply and demand for healthcare services; but nobody could know to what extent and for how long. When the situation today – and the outlook for many tomorrows to come – are significantly different than what we are used to, simulation-based scenario planning is what we want.
<p>Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen (Norway) and Dynaplan have a long history of working together on topics as varied as healthcare demand forecasting, patient flow management, strategic workforce planning, and clinic resource optimisation.</p>
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<p>Right from the start it was clear that COVID-19 would have an impact both on supply and demand for healthcare services; but nobody could know to what extent and for how long. When the situation today – and the outlook for many tomorrows to come – are significantly different than what we are used to, simulation-based scenario planning is what we want.</p>
<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>Thanks to Pål Ove Vadset and his colleagues for the opportunity to work on this project and for their contribution to shaping the result. Thanks also to my great colleagues, Finn Olav Sveen and John Huertas, who created the data transformations and cockpits, respectively.</p>
<h3>Scope</h3>
<p>This project involved a team of people from Haukeland university Hospital and Dynaplan. Initially, several on-line meetings were devoted to answer the following questions:</p>
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<li>What will be the benefit of the <a href="/technology/smia">Smia models</a>, and to whom?</li>
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<p>Variation in supply and demand is relevant not only during the pandemic; fluctuations are normal for healthcare service provides. The team wanted a solution that can assist planning in stable as well as turbulent times.</p>
<p>During the pandemic, but also in general, patients are prioritized according to criteria such as severity of their condition. It is of critical importance that acute cases and intensive care are treated in a timely manner. At the same time, care for elective patients (patients who are referred to the hospital by their doctor) should be optimised.</p>
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<p>The team identified a need both for monitoring the development of the situation, and for planning ahead. Users of the Smia models would be planners at different levels of secondary healthcare (hospitals).</p>
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<p>For the pilot phase, <em>Section of Health Service Development</em> would use the models to service other entities of the organisation.</p>
<p>The Smia models coming out of the project should provide these features:</p>
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<p>Two separate, but interconnected, Smia models were developed by Dynaplan: “Patient flow metrics” and “Patient flow balancer”.</p>
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<p>The metrics model is a static model (no simulation, only data transformation and statistics) importing patient flow data. This model is used both for the base and the snapshot view of the patient flow.</p>
<p>Inputs to this model are obtained from the recorded registrations, examinations, treatments, controls, and discharges of patients at all or a selection of the entities. It turned out to be a formidable job to validate the raw data and make a transformation into a format suitable for analysing and visualizing the stocks (waiting lists) and flows (production) of secondary healthcare.</p>
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<p>For data security and GDPR reasons, the processing of information involving patients and treatment of patients is performed by the hospital and stays within the hospital.</p>
<h3>Patient flow balancer</h3>
<p>The Patient flow balancer receives data containing no individual patient information from the metrics model described above. Filled with data, the Patient flow balancer is shared via Dynaplan’s cloud service for model sharing.</p>
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<p>Any user within the health region who has been granted access to the shared Patient flow balancer can develop scenarios for managing the patient flow at any level of the organisation.</p>
<p>Under the hood, the Patient flow balancer implements an elaborate patient flow network, illustrated below:</p>
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<p>Twelve states and near 150 transitions are prioritized by urgency (coloured boxes) and constrained by capacity.</p>
<p>The time horizon for the simulation can be freely set from a few weeks up to a full year. The simulation is performed with a time step of one day.</p>
<p>The simulation cockpit provides overviews as well as detailed views of the state and development of the patient flow. Any imbalances between supply and demand are visualized, alerting the user to bottlenecks and declining service level for the different patient groups.</p>
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<p>Assumptions about the future are initialized from the base data. The user can make modifications to the assumptions by increasing or decreasing supply (capacity) and demand (registrations).</p>
<p>Policies for managing the patient flow involves measures like the following:</p>
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<h3>Early findings</h3>
<p>At the time of writing (October 2020), the rollout of the Smia models is still in its pilot phase. Already the first runs provided insights – some quite counterintuitive. As an example, users expected that increasing the time between controls would reduce demand. Counter to intuition, there will be only a temporary drop in demand (not shown by the model) before demand returns to its original level. To get a lasting reduction in capacity needed for controls, the average number of controls per patient case must be lowered.</p>
<p>As another example, the team discovered that the hospital might be missing out on an opportunity to reduce waiting times for elective patients. Under COVID-19, referrals to the hospital has in general declined. If the hospital manages to run at full capacity, the overall net patient flow will become negative, i.e., the capacity will exceed demand and make it possible to reduce waiting times for elective patients. This opportunity seems not to be used at the moment, as the potential capacity is reduced by management as part of a policy to limit spread of COVID-19 among employees.</p>
<p>As we have discussed earlier in <a href="/news/patients-wait-7-times-more-than-necessary-for-health-care-5931">the waiting list project</a>, bringing capacity above demand might not lead to a reduction in waiting times for healthcare. A change in waiting list management policies is called for.</p>
<h3>Use of the solution for other hospitals</h3>
<p>The models described here cover any number of different types of policlinics and wards. The models support arbitrarily complex organisational structures.</p>
<p>When adapting the solution to other hospitals, queries for obtaining patient data from the local system must be created. Apart from that, customisation is mainly done via parameters and metadata (such as organisational hierarchy).</p>
https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/sap-integration-certification-5940
SAP integration certification
2020-07-29T16:48:59+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Dynaplan Smia has been SAP certified since 2014. We are proud that our software yet again passed SAP’s certification tests flawlessly.
Dynaplan Smia is certified for integration with SAP Business Warehouse 7.50 via the SAP integration scenario BW-XMLA 3.0.
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<p>Dynaplan Smia has been SAP certified since 2014. We are proud that our software yet again passed SAP’s certification tests flawlessly.</p>
<p>Dynaplan Smia is certified for integration with SAP Business Warehouse 7.50 via the SAP integration scenario BW-XMLA 3.0.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/planning-outside-the-bandwidth-5939
Planning outside the bandwidth
2020-04-29T13:36:29+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
In times of great uncertainty and big changes, it is widely accepted that planning needs to be based on future scenarios rather than trends and predictions. Forget about machine learning. Forget about artificial intelligence. Forget about data mining. They all fail because they rely on data which won’t be available until long after we must decide how to deal with the situation. How do we create scenarios that can help us come safely through the different paths this virus might take us through?
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<p>Dear reader,</p>
<p>Allow me a small detour before coming back to the use and making of scenarios to meet some general planning challenges that are greatly amplified by the Corona pandemic.</p>
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<p>My first memory of “media” is a <a href="http://www.tomania1953.com/144742087?i=77272624">fabulous radio</a> produced by Radionette in Sandvika, Norway the year I was born. It must have cost my parents most of their savings to acquire this piece of luxury.</p>
<p>In daytime, we listened to public broadcasting, but we could also tune in to different stations. At night I was allowed to listen to Radio Luxembourg, where they played pop music.</p>
<p>It was not possible to receive signals from that station using the tuning wheel alone; Radio Luxembourg was outside the bandwidth of FM. So, I first had to press AM to switch to a different band (wavelength).</p>
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<p>In planning, budgeting, and forecasting, we also talk about bandwidth. It reflects the fact that we cannot predict the future. The centre of the band shows expected values, while lines on either side represent possible outcomes in diminishing order of statistical probability.</p>
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<p>Going from a single assumption about the future to a fan of outcomes with different probabilities is a great step forward in strategic planning. It helps us be aware of — and to prepare ourselves for — different futures. You can read more about bandwidth planning under “Driver-based simulation in managerial accounting at Infineon” below.</p>
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<p>What we experience with the Corona epidemic is a future that is completely outside the bandwidth of any plan that you and I, our companies, or even our governments had envisioned for 2020. It is time to switch from FM to AM, so to speak.</p>
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<p>Why not just expand the bandwidth to include more possibilities?</p>
<p>We know that many things that happen have extremely low probability. As an example, it is very unlikely that <em>you</em> (of all people) will win in a big lottery. On the other hand, it is 100% certain that <em>someone</em> will win.</p>
<p>From a planning perspective, it is nonsense to <em>plan</em> as if you’re going to win. You can <em>hope</em> to win. You can <em>imagine</em> what to do with the money in case you win. But you’d rather not bet on it.</p>
<p>The same goes for business planning: We cannot investigate and prepare for all thinkable possibilities, simply because that would consume all of our resources, and still not be enough to cover “black swans”, which are not even on the radar.</p>
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<p>In times of great uncertainty and big changes, it is <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiwo.de%2Ferfolg%2Fmanagement%2Fcoronavirus-wie-man-plant-wenn-nichts-planbar-ist%2F25709456.html">widely accepted</a> that planning needs to be based on future scenarios rather than trends and predictions.</p>
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<p>Forget about machine learning. Forget about artificial intelligence. Forget about data mining. These technologies have many applications, but in the current circumstances, they all fail because they rely on data which won’t be available until long after we must decide how to deal with the situation.</p>
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<p>How do we create scenarios that can help us come safely through the different paths this virus might take us through? The answer is to use the same approach for our strategic analysis and planning as the epidemiologists use to forecast the development of the disease in the population: They use <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faz.net%2Faktuell%2Fwissen%2Fmedizin-ernaehrung%2Fwie-zuverlaessig-sind-simulationen-zum-corona-verlauf-16715081.html">models that are fed with new information</a> as soon as it becomes available.</p>
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<p>Since the future outcome of our decisions are influenced by uncertainty and unknowns, it is not fair to judge decisions in hindsight by their outcome. Instead, decisions should be evaluated on their use of then available data and knowledge, the quality of the analyses that were done, and the evaluation of options and associated risks and opportunities.</p>
<p>Scenario simulation makes the best possible use of knowledge as well as data. Knowledge is covered in the model structure while data is provided as inputs and assumptions to the simulation.</p>
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<p>In contrast to the data-centric approach, simulation-based scenarios rely on the main business logic, and the key resources and processes that determine the performance of our company in the context of its environment (including assumptions about Corona).</p>
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<p>Companies that model their business can get immediate benefit from truly agile planning and coherent scenarios. The process is agile because it takes little time and effort to adapt models and input new information. It is coherent because it is based on a holistic, validated picture of the situation. Under “SWP in Corona times” further down, you can read how models are adapted and the time horizon is narrowed to the scale of the pandemic.</p>
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<p>Here at Dynaplan, we are thankful that all employees and their families are at good health so far, and that the company can operate with full capacity to help customers create scenarios incorporating effects of and measures against the pandemic that concerns all of us.</p>
<p>Best wishes in turbulent times,<br>
Your Dynaplan team</p>
<h2>Contents at a glance</h2>
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<li>New SWP webinars with Haufe</li>
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<li>SWP in Corona times</li>
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<li>Smia 2.0 release</li>
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<h3>New SWP webinars together with Haufe Akademie</h3>
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<p>Get up to speed with SWP and learn the principles of good and right SWP. We are happy to announce a series of webinars in the area of strategic workforce planning together with the Haufe Akademie. Please follow the link to sign up and understand how SWP can become a crucial navigation tool out of the crisis, how it can become a cornerstone of your business success, and what you need to get started right away.</p>
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<p>The next HR practice group will be hosted by Audi, and is scheduled to take place 27 May. In times of high uncertainties, SWP and scenario planning in general become very valuable tools. We will have an in-depth discussion on how the planning models can be used to forge a way out of the current crisis.</p>
<p>Due to the uncertain situation regarding traveling restrictions, we are offering the option to join remotely via web conferencing for the presentations and discussion. You are invited to sign up for this free event, provided exclusively for our customers.</p>
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<p>Last year, Dynaplan became compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management. We are happy to announce that, as of 22 January, we are also certified. The system helps us ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements, such as the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.</p>
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<p>We are very pleased about the successful collaboration with Infineon, and the resulting article about driver-based simulation in managerial accounting.</p>
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<p><em>Automated forecasts support the evolvement of the controlling function towards a business partnering. Reduced efforts for generating aggregated financial predictions provide more time for value-adding activities. Hence, driver-based models support automation without losing control of understanding for the drivers and their impact.</em></p>
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<p>The article was published in the journal <em>Controlling</em>, issue 2/2020, and is only available in German.</p>
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<p>The impact of COVID-19 in the short, medium, and long term is manifold and uncertain. Business- and human-wise, the implications are just starting to emerge, and even optimistic forecasts hint at a long way back to normal, which in many cases is a new normal.</p>
<p>In this context, the enablement of the business strategy through the right workforce, as the main goal of strategic workforce planning, will be harder than ever. The dynamics of the synchronisation between business and workforce strategy has never had so many moving parts. Alternative scenarios will emerge as organisations go beyond surviving to achieve sustainability, return to growth, and even reimagine themselves in the new normal:</p>
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<li>On the workforce demand side:
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<li>How far will the market demand decrease?</li>
<li>How long will it last?</li>
<li>How fast will the recovery be? </li>
<li>Will consumer side changes alter the relative importance of specific products/services across the portfolio?</li>
<li>Will a faster adoption of virtual services lead to the emergence of new jobs and functions at a faster rate than expected?</li>
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<li>What will be the impact of the infection curve on workforce absence (either due to infection or to indirect consequences such as childcare)? </li>
<li>Will public health measures lead to a sustainable reduction of infections, enabling the workforce to get back to work? Or will a new mode of working (i.e. virtual offices) become the new normal?</li>
<li>How to address potential workforce surplus caused by demand reductions? Which are the possibilities of redeployment?</li>
<li>What is the long-term impact of short- or medium-term HR actions?</li>
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<p>In the face of such variety, making sense of all possibilities in an effective and integrated way is challenging. A scenario methodology can help organising the alternatives in a process that results, despite the prevailing uncertainty, in concrete actions.</p>
<p>As we partner with our customers to navigate the crisis, we are developing an approach as follows:</p>
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<li>Bring back the business as usual scenario before COVID-19 to understand the baseline that was impacted by the crisis.</li>
<li>Define the impact of all external factors (assumptions) in workforce supply and demand for 3 scenarios: the best, base, and worst case of handling of the pandemic within the organisation regional scope. Key factors include:
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<li>Shape of the market disruption: A prolonged downturn with slow or no recovery (“L-shape”)? A sudden fall followed by slow recovery (“U-shape”)? A quick rebound (“V-shape”)?</li>
<li>Impact of disruption on key demand drivers.</li>
<li>Impact of epidemics on workforce absence.</li>
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<li>Simulate each scenario, understand the key risks, and identify potential workforce and business decisions that can mitigate them.</li>
<li>Identify decisions that are common among the three scenarios. Such are robust decisions: decisions that hold even in cases of high uncertainty.</li>
<li>Define concrete HR measures based on the robust decisions identified and the decisions defined for the most likely pandemic scenario at the time.</li>
<li>Revise the simulation as the pandemic develops and verify that the decisions still mitigate the risks identified.</li>
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<p>In summary, by the end of the process the planner will have approached uncertainty systematically and will have linked broad pandemic scenarios with concrete HR measures to be monitored and reviewed as events unfold. Ultimately, the planner will move from a reactive to a proactive approach to tackling the impact of the pandemic.</p>
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<p>After being part of Gartner’s list of Cool Vendors some time ago we are proud to be covered by another leading market research company: 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Analyst Conner Forrest titles that: <em>Dynaplan’s simulation engine bridges the gap between workforce and business planning.</em></p>
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<p>On 31 March, Dynaplan Smia 2.0 was released. In this version, customers can now host their models on their own SharePoint servers, or their local file system, ensuring their data never leaves their intranet, even encrypted. The user interface is more customizable than before, letting users switch between tablet and desktop look-and-feel based on their needs, removing most of the interface altogether with the panorama mode, and even going full screen when desired. The engine has been updated with support for more varied simulation horizons, agent-based motion functions for SWP, and better data importing capabilities. Performance has been enhanced in several areas.</p>
<p>A new, compatible version of the Smia app for iOS is also now available. It includes all the relevant improvements from the desktop version.</p>
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HR Match in use at Stadtwerke Solingen
2020-04-06T09:49:26+02:00
Dr Philipp Wunderlich
philipp.wunderlich@dynaplan.com
SWP is not only a topic for the very big corporations. An article published in PERSONALFÜHRUNG 11/2019 describes how, after attending one of our free webinars, Stadtwerke Solingen started using our preconfigured planning tool HR Match to analyse their workforce planning challenges, and how they derived robust measures to address them.
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<p>We are happy to share with you an article that was published in the magazine PERSONALFÜHRUNG 11/2019 together Stadtwerke Solingen, the utility provider of the city of Solingen in Germany.</p>
<p>This article focuses on the process of strategic workforce planning at Stadtwerke Solingen, showing that strategic workforce planning is not only a topic for the very big corporations. In fact, more and more small and mid-sized organisations face the same challenges, such as adapting to technological developments, and understanding the demographic situation in order to cover future workforce demands.</p>
<p>After attending one of our free webinars, Stadtwerke Solingen decided to address those challenges. The article describes how Stadtwerke Solingen used our preconfigured planning tool HR Match to analyse these challenges and how they derived robust measures to address them.</p>
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<p>We have upcoming webinars covering topics such as <em>getting started with strategic workforce planning</em> and <em>simulations in controlling</em> that are completely free to attend. Sign up now to learn how your organisation can benefit from of our planning solutions.</p>
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Driver-based simulation in managerial accounting at Infineon
2020-04-02T08:13:16+02:00
Dr Philipp Wunderlich
philipp.wunderlich@dynaplan.com
We are very pleased about the successful collaboration with Infineon and the resulting paper about driver-based simulation in managerial accounting.
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<p>We are very pleased about the successful collaboration with Infineon and the resulting paper about driver-based simulation in managerial accounting, which was published in the journal <em>Controlling</em>, issue 2/2020 (only available in German). The paper describes how Infineon set up and uses Dynaplan’s dynamic business planning solutions to support the evolvement of controllers towards business partners. By using driver-based simulation models, efforts for generating aggregated financial predictions have been reduced, providing more time for value-adding activities.</p>
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<p><em>Identifying and quickly quantifying major business drivers consistently offers a potential for fast decision-making on the basis of several scenarios. The focus of the driver-based approach on essential parameters shortens the response times of simulations. For the future, it is intended to use uncertainty analysis, supported by the tool [Dynaplan Smia], to derive a range of possible developments in order to make the inherent uncertainty about future parameter values more tangible.</em></p>
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<p>In times of an unprecedented global pandemic, future developments are impossible to predict. However, despite all the uncertainties and challenges ahead, we cannot bury our heads in the sand and wait for better times. Now, more than ever, it is important that we are prepared for change and able to adjust our plans in response to new information.</p>
<p>The paper shows that driver-based simulation models serve as an efficient communication platform that supports a quick deduction of insights based on multiple scenarios and statistical uncertainty analysis. Hence, controllers are better able to evaluate the sensitivity of financial forecasts, thereby supporting them in their new role as sparring partners to decision makers. These qualities of driver-based simulation models ensure that companies can make smart decisions, especially in times of great uncertainty.</p>
<p>Learn more by reading the full paper or signing up for one of our free webinars about driver-based simulation in managerial accounting.</p>
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<h3>Update March 2021</h3>
<p>The article has been granted the <em><a href="/news/best-paper-award-praxis-5947">Best Paper Award Praxis 2020</a></em> by the journal <em>Controlling</em>.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/dynaplan-smia-version-2.0-5936
Dynaplan Smia version 2.0
2020-03-31T16:24:23+02:00
Mr Yngve Mellingen
yngve@dynaplan.com
Dynaplan Smia 2.0 is ready for download. This version introduces, among other features, private hosting for shared models, agent-based motion functions for SWP, and a tablet user interface, as well as improvements to encryption, compilation time, data import, and more. In addition, the user interface has been overhauled, including the model browser, document wizard, health card, and the shared model dialogs.
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<p>Dynaplan Smia 2.0 is ready for download. In this version, customers can now host their models on their own Sharepoint servers, or their local file system, ensuring their data never leaves their intranet, even encrypted. The user interface is more customizable than before, letting users switch between tablet and desktop look-and-feel based on their needs, removing most of the interface altogether with the panorama mode, and even going full screen when desired. The engine has been updated with support for more varied simulation horizons, agent-based motion functions for SWP, and better data importing capabilities. Performance has been enhanced in several areas.</p>
<p>A new, compatible version of the Smia app for iOS is also now available. It includes all the relevant improvements from the desktop version.</p>
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<p>And for the benefit of all, stronger encryption now protects your data even better, and private hosting now allows you to store your shared models on your local network (using SharePoint or network drives), ensuring your data never has to venture beyond your firewalls. Also, several processes have been optimized for speed, some even parallelized to make use of multiple processor cores, so the new Smia 2.0 should be faster than ever.</p>
<p>To see the full list of improvements and fixes included in this release, please see the <a href="/technology/smia/download/smia-2.0-84#version-history">version history</a>.</p>
<p>Feel free to visit the <a href="/technology/smia/vote-for-features">suggestions page</a> whenever you like to request new features for upcoming versions.</p>
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<p>If you have an existing version of Smia installed on your computer, upgrade to the new version is done automatically when you start Smia, unless you have switched off <samp>Look for software updates each time application is started</samp>. See <samp>Edit | Options… | Startup</samp>.</p>
<p>In case automatic update is disabled, you can start it manually from <samp>Help | Look for software updates…</samp>.</p>
<p>In case you have already uninstalled Smia from your computer, or if you are installing Smia for the first time, you need to download the setup file from <a href="/technology/smia/download/smia-2.0-84">Downloads</a>. Then run the setup program and start Smia. Follow the instructions provided on the screen to activate Smia.</p>
<p>See the <a href="/forum.php?page=forum&fid=11">forum</a> for more details or asking for help.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/free-webinars-on-scenario-planning-coping-with-uncertain-futures-5935
Free webinars on scenario planning — coping with uncertain futures
2020-03-25T08:24:09+01:00
Dr Philipp Wunderlich
philipp.wunderlich@dynaplan.com
In times of a global pandemic, severe measures need to be implemented to protect our societies. Consequently, many events need to be cancelled. However, despite all the uncertainties and challenges ahead, we should not bust our heads in the sand and wait for better times. Now more than ever, it is important that we are prepared and adjust our plans where necessary.
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<p>In times of a global pandemic, severe measures need to be implemented to protect our societies. Consequently, many events need to be postponed or cancelled. Also the HR Trends 2020 conferences in Bremen and in Nuremberg, where Dynaplan was going to give a workshop about strategic workforce planning, have been postponed pending further notice.</p>
<p>However, despite all the uncertainties and challenges ahead, we should not bust our heads in the sand and wait for better times. Now more than ever, it is important that we are prepared and adjust our plans where necessary. Dynaplan enables you to do precisely this by participating in one of our webinars, covering topics such as <em>getting started with strategic workforce planning</em> and <em>simulations in controlling</em>.</p>
<p>Manage your results and stay prepared by registering for one of our free webinars now.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/strategic-workforce-planning-for-aviation-5934
Strategic workforce planning for aviation
2020-02-21T15:21:53+01:00
Mr Olivier Müller
olivier.mueller@dynaplan.com
Inspired by flight simulators for pilot training, human resource managers now use forward-looking workforce simulators to ensure that their workforce stays in line with demand – not only in numbers – but also in terms of experience and qualification.
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<p>Inspired by flight simulators for pilot training, human resource managers now use forward-looking workforce simulators to ensure that their workforce stays in line with demand – not only in numbers – but also in terms of experience and qualification.</p>
<p>Shortages in regulated personnel can cause costly down times, which in turn have negative effects on customer satisfaction. With Dynaplan’s approach airlines use simulation to asses short-, mid-, and long-term workforce risks, and develop the right sequence, timing, and choice of HR measures.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/solutions/strategic-workforce-planning/aviation"><span>Learn more about SWP for aviation</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/iso-27001-certification-5933
ISO 27001 certification
2020-02-03T11:10:11+01:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Last year, Dynaplan became compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management. We are happy to announce that we are now also certified. The system helps us to ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements.
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<p>Last year, Dynaplan became compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management. We are happy to announce that, as of 22 January, we are also certified. The system helps us to ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements, such as the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/there-is-no-such-thing-as-bad-weather-5932
There is no such thing as bad weather
2019-12-13T16:55:38+01:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
If you should ever experience a rainy day in Norway, and you complain about it, someone will tell you:
- There is no bad weather – only bad clothing!
There is a subtle wisdom behind this; we should focus on things that we can do something about, such as, our clothing.
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<h1>There is no such thing as bad weather</h1>
<p>Dear reader,</p>
<p>If you should ever experience a rainy day in Norway, and you complain about it, someone will tell you:</p>
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<p>There is no bad weather – only bad clothing!</p>
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<p>There is a subtle wisdom behind this; we should focus on things that we can do something about, such as, our clothing.</p>
<p>In the business world, there is also risk. But we cannot use that as an excuse when things go wrong. We need to be prepared.</p>
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<p>“There are no bad business conditions – only bad choices.”</p>
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<p>Daniel Kahneman writes in his (highly recommended) book “Thinking fast and slow” about two different decision-making processes. Thinking fast is for the “sunny” days of business; while thinking slow is crucial when business gets “stormy”.</p>
<p>As an example, cost-cutting might be the first action that comes to mind whenever earning targets are missed. Cutting cost is a first-order solution, directly addressing the problem at hand.</p>
<p>In many situations, first-order solutions can create more problems than they solve. Thinking slow means to take the time and effort needed to come up with and analyse alternative scenarios before making our choices.</p>
<p>Thinking slow is more about the quality of the process than the time it takes. Through agile technology and processes, it is our aim to turn thinking slow into a fast and ongoing process that helps our customers make the right choices.</p>
<p>We thank you for the co-operation in 2019 and look forward to continuing our exciting journey in 2020.</p>
<p>Happy holidays,<br>
From your Dynaplan team</p>
<h2>Contents at a glance</h2>
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<li>UNLEASH World</li>
<li>HR Practice Group at Audi in 2020</li>
<li>HR Trends 2020</li>
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<li>Patients wait 7 times more than necessary for health care</li>
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<p><strong>Our simulation tool presented by Deutsche Bahn</strong></p>
<p>Once again, Dynaplan made an impact at UNLEASH PARIS 2019, the world’s largest gathering of HR leaders and HR technology. Claudia de Andrés-Gayón from Deutsche Bahn presented on stage how Dynaplan’s SWP solution plays a key role in their toolset for planning the workforce of the future. At our stand, the new Strategic Competencies Planning model made a strong impression on attendees, showing how as organisations mature, planning of competencies expand from the realm of analyses of individual competency assessments into the core of the strategic planning process.</p>
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<p><strong>Audi Forum, Ingolstadt, 26-27 May 2020</strong></p>
<p>It is our pleasure to announce the next HR Practice Group, this time hosted by Audi in Ingolstadt. We launch the event on 26 May with an evening programme, and use the following day for an in-depth exchange about strategic workforce planning practice. We will discuss current trends (e.g. link between job clusters and competencies) and intersecting topics, as well as best practice examples from various companies. As always, this group is free of charge and exclusively for our customers.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events/hr-practice-group-26-may-2020-55"><span>Sign up now</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Every year the popular publication <em>HR Trends</em> is presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse – the world’s most important fair for print & digital content business. We are proud that for HR Trends 2020 we, together with Deutsche Bahn, were invited to present our solution for strategic workforce management in the digital transformation, highlighting the link between the quantitative and qualitative view about the future workforce. Learn more by reading <a href="https://shop.haufe.de/prod/hr-trends-2020">HR Trends 2020</a>. You will also have the chance to experience our solution at the HR Trends roadshow live next year in Bremen (19 March) and Nürnberg (28 April).</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="https://www.hr-trends-tagung.de/"><span>Read more and save the date</span><em class="_icon-external-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Strategic workforce planning is not only a topic for the very big corporations. More and more small and mid-sized organisations face the same challenges, such as adapting to technological developments, and understanding the demographic situation in order to cover future workforce demands. Stadtwerke Solingen, the utility provider of the city of Solingen in Germany, has decided to address those challenges. The impulse to move forward with strategic workforce planning came after attending our webinar, after which they decided to use our HR Match solution, a preconfigured planning tool that can be implemented with little resources and time. We are very proud to welcome Stadtwerke Solingen in our community. The story is published in the magazine PERSONALFÜHRUNG 11/2019.</p>
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<p>In its November issue, IJHPM (International Journal of Health Policy and Management) published a <a href="http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3682_63f03844558619a20d6b26af4ec11fb7.pdf">peer-reviewed article</a> describing the results of a simulation study performed by Dynaplan in co-operation with Bergen University Hospital in Norway.</p>
<p>Not only in Norway, but also in many other western countries, waiting times are reported to be much higher than desired. Over more than 3 decades, governments, hospitals, and university professors have searched in vain for efficient and lasting solutions to the problem.</p>
<p>Dynaplan’s scenario planning method was used to explore the nature of the problem and to identify possible solutions. Our findings were quite astonishing: While long waiting times are believed to be caused by lack of resources, simulations showed that the hospital’s current waiting list management policies made it virtually impossible to get efficient and lasting effects of increased capacity (e.g., more physicians).</p>
<p>Based on scenario simulation, the project team was able to conclude that the waiting list management policies used by the hospital create a self-sustaining vicious circle that effectively prevents any first-order attempts to reduce waiting times.</p>
<p>Furthermore, simulations in combination with “thinking slow” (see intro) led to the identification of a second-order solution with the potential of a lasting effect of almost 90% reduction in waiting time for patients.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/news/patients-wait-7-times-more-than-necessary-for-health-care-5931"><span>Read more</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Whether we like it or not, we have to make certain decisions today, even if we are not exactly certain what the future will look like. This is why scenario planning is an integral part of our methodology and our technology. It allows us to explore different possible future paths to make sure that we have our grounds covered. But still, there is a risk involved with every decision, which is why it makes sense to stress test them. Our planning models can help you with that. The software can independently run through hundreds of scenarios with varying assumptions and then plot the probability distribution of the key output figures, such as necessary hiring over time. This increases the confidence level of your decision making, as you not only see the sensitivity of the output with regards to the variation of one single assumption, but of multiple assumptions being varied in a statistically meaningful way, and therefore either reinforcing or cancelling out the effect on the hiring number.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/patients-wait-7-times-more-than-necessary-for-health-care-5931
Patients wait 7 times more than necessary for health care
2019-12-07T18:18:47+01:00
Mr Magne Myrtveit
magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
In the backdrop of decades of failed attempts to reduce excessive waiting times for secondary health care, Dynaplan was engaged by Bergen University Hospital (Norway) to evaluate their patient waiting list management procedures and policies.
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<p>In the backdrop of decades of failed attempts to reduce excessive waiting times for secondary health care, Dynaplan was engaged by Bergen University Hospital (Norway) to evaluate their patient waiting list management procedures and policies.</p>
<h3>Analysis of the “as-is” situation</h3>
<p>A simulation model of the current patient flow was created using Dynaplan Smia. The model was fed with data provided by the hospital. To our surprise, experiments performed on the model led to three alarming characteristics of the current patient flow management practice at the studied department:</p>
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<li>Even when starting from an empty waiting list, and capacity equal to demand, waiting times rapidly developed from zero to the high levels seen at the department today.</li>
<li>Attempts to reduce waiting times by adding capacity had less effect than expected.</li>
<li>Any positive effect of temporarily adding resources to bring waiting times down, turned out to be of temporary nature only. Shortly after the initiative was over, waiting had grown back to its original level.</li>
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<p>The main learning of these experiments was that long waiting times at the studied department did not stem from lack of resources but was rather linked to severe side-effects of waiting list management routines.</p>
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<p>On the background of these findings, focus was shifted to a search for better waiting list management procedures; procedures that would remove unnecessary waiting while at the same time ensuring that all patients receive health care in time (as defined by their medical condition).</p>
<p>For the studied department, our research showed that by abandoning prioritisation, the current average waiting can be reduced from more than 2 months to less than 2 weeks. For patients currently waiting a full year, the waiting time can be reduced from 12 months to 12 days. On top of it, such reductions can be accomplished without permanent increase in hospital resources.</p>
<h3>Understanding the problem</h3>
<p>Prioritisation is in this context done by assigning low-priority patients treatment delays for care, in order to make room for patients of higher priority arriving later.</p>
<p>It is a common understanding among health care professionals that prioritisation is necessary. But our research shows that prioritisation is needed only when the waiting times have been allowed to grow beyond a certain level.</p>
<p>Contrary to intuition, prioritisation creates a vicious circle that has demonstrated itself to be virtually impossible to escape. The system enters a state where the “solution” has become the problem, as illustrated below.</p>
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<p>As long as the system operates within this circle, the vast majority of patients will experience unnecessarily long waiting times.</p>
<p>An obvious solution to this problem, is to add more resources to bring waiting times down. However, when it comes to vicious circles, things are not so easy. Our simulations as well as research done by others, indicate that – unless combined with appropriate policy changes – additional resources can turn out to be wasted time and money.</p>
<h3>The problem is not limited to Norway</h3>
<p>The situation at the hospital in Bergen, is not unique. For more than 30 years, patients throughout the country have experienced alarmingly long waiting times. A survey conducted by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), concludes that all but one of the 13 countries studied, fought in wain against long waiting times for health care.</p>
<h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>The research article based on this investigation (cited below) concludes like this:</p>
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<p>A poor appointment allocation policy can build long waiting times, even when capacity is sufficient to meet demand.</p>
<p>By bringing waiting times down and going away from prioritisation, the waiting list size and average waiting times at the studied department could be maintained almost 90% below the current level – without requiring permanent change in the capacity/demand ratio.</p>
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<p>The interested reader can learn more about the project and its outcome in the article <a href="http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3682_63f03844558619a20d6b26af4ec11fb7.pdf">Long Waiting Times for Elective Hospital Care – Breaking the Vicious Circle by Abandoning Prioritisation</a>, published by IJHPM (International Journal of Health Policy and Management).</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3682_63f03844558619a20d6b26af4ec11fb7.pdf"><span>Read the full article</span><em class="_icon-external-white"> </em></a></p>
<h3>Media coverage</h3>
<h4>23 December 2019</h4>
<p>Dynaplan is generating top news in Norway! Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the biggest news provider in Norway, have interviewed Magne Myrtveit and Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit Sæther about their groundbreaking work on health care waiting lists. During Christmas, it has been broadcast on TV, radio and online newspaper.</p>
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<li><a href="https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA19122319&t=8m51s">TV</a> (in Norwegian)</li>
<li><a href="https://radio.nrk.no/serie/distriktsprogram-hordaland/DKHO02024719/23-12-2019#t=1h44m13s">Radio</a> (in Norwegian)</li>
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<h4>9 January 2020</h4>
<p>Article in the <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nordhordland.no%2Fnyheiter%2Fradoy%2Fnaringsliv%2Fradoy-firma-kan-kutta-ventetid-pa-sjukehustime-drastisk%2Fs%2F5-33-318341">newspaper Nordhordland</a> (behind a paywall, translated from Norwegian to English by Google Translate)</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/a-pause-for-thought-5930
A pause for thought
2019-05-29T11:12:52+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
In hectic times characterized by many keywords, especially in the context of digitization, it is not always easy to keep track of and organize the numerous terms. It is very important to correctly classify the respective contributions of the topics for successful corporate management, because to do otherwise can quickly become dangerous.
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<p>In hectic times characterized by many keywords, especially in the context of digitization, it is not always easy to keep track of and organize the numerous terms. It is very important to correctly classify the respective contributions of the topics for successful corporate management, because to do otherwise can quickly become dangerous. Scarce resources are wasted, or misunderstandings lead to wrong decisions. One example is the topics of forecasting, predictive analytics, and operational and strategic planning. It is easy to overlook that they have very different meanings. A good “pause for thought” for the necessary clarity is regularly provided by our exchange of experience in the form of our practice groups, for example at Infineon in Munich, where we focused on controlling. We hope to see many of you at one of our next exchange rounds.</p>
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<li>ISO 27001 compliance</li>
<li>Controlling practice group</li>
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<h3>Dynaplan’s security management is ISO 27001 compliant</h3>
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<p>As of 3 April 2019, Dynaplan complies with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management.</p>
<p>Together with Watchcom Security Group, we have evaluated and further developed our Information Security Management System. The system helps us ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements, such as the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.</p>
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<p>Another edition of the Controlling practice group took place 8 May 2019, this time at Infineon in Munich. The overarching topic was driver-based business planning and simulation with presentations from Infineon and ZF.</p>
<p>Among other things, participants were discussing the challenges they face in their planning processes, especially with regard to automation and digitalisation. Here the distinction between long-term planning and forecasting proved to be useful, with the former being characterised by a strategic focus and the latter by a rather operational focus.</p>
<p>Long-term strategic planning strives to find the right balance between accuracy and lucidity, qualitative and quantitative information, as well as bottom-up and top-down planning. On the other hand, short to mid-term forecasting faces challenges with regard to the right timing, the transparency and consistency of premises, and intercompany and cross-national differences.</p>
<p>After demonstrating the latest Dynaplan Smia features to support long-term planning as well as forecasting, the community discussed how driver-based business planning and simulation models can even further help them to cope with the identified challenges.</p>
<p>If you missed this event, you do not need to wait for next year’s Controlling practice group to get an idea how Dynaplan’s solutions can help you with your challenges in financial planning and controlling. Instead, you can get your personal demo tour, or explore by yourself the value of our simulation approach in the context of controlling.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/solutions/dynamic-business-planning#contact"><span>Contact us to learn more</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>With <a href="/solutions/strategic-workforce-planning/hr-match">HR Match</a>, we offer what is probably the most efficient way to get up to speed with strategic workforce planning. In this 45-minute webinar, we will show you helpful tips and tricks with regard to data handling, scenario simulation, and risk analysis. Without any prior knowledge being necessary, you will quickly be able to realise the greatest value for your organisation by drawing the right conclusions concerning the strategic orientation of HR. Register now for the free webinar and get access to our planning tool HR Match Starter.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events/hr-match-starter-introductory-webinar-12-jun-2019-49"><span>Read more and sign up</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Last Monday, SWP experts of different customers met again for the biannual HR practice group, this time hosted by the Techniker Krankenkasse in Hamburg. The group elaborated on the connection between diversity management and strategic workforce planning (among others: age, gender, background). Afterwards, participants discussed in little groups criteria for segmenting job clusters with regard to strategical relevance and procurement risk. The day concluded with an exchange about efficient handling of data in the context of initialising and using models. Thereby, the focus was on making better use of already existing ERP data to derive model inputs. Automated interfaces can help here. However, they cannot be the sole source for future-oriented assumptions.</p>
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<p>A lack of workforce in hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities is a perennial problem. With this perspective, we decided that Dynaplan should contribute, and be part of the hospital management congress 2019 in Hamburg. Two fully-fledged discussion rounds underlined the importance of the topic strategic workforce planning, while highlighting the need for action. Our simulation solution has been supporting hospital management in Norway for many years.</p>
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<p>Deutsche Telekom is now supporting its strategic workforce planning with Dynaplan. We are very pleased with the joint completion of the modelling exercise this spring, and wish for a successful operation of the simulation model.</p>
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<p>Row-based input tables provide a very concise way to enter values, especially if input values are identical for many elements of the considered dimensions.</p>
<p>In the example below, the columns ‘Job cluster’ and ‘Location’ are empty in the first row. This means that for the year 2018 and onwards, all job clusters and locations will use the same hiring rate. On the second row, a specific rule for Norway has been created. Starting from 2019, a different hiring rate will be used for Norway only. The generic rule on row number 1 continues to be used for all other locations and job clusters.</p>
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<p>When rolling the forecast, rules relating to times outside the new time horizon are deleted, even when they also apply to times inside the new time horizon. Read on to learn how you can prevent such rules from being deleted when rolling the forecast.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/news/handling-time-in-row-based-input-tables-when-rolling-forecast-5929"><span>Read more</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/handling-time-in-row-based-input-tables-when-rolling-forecast-5929
Handling time in row-based input tables when rolling forecast
2019-05-28T09:35:03+02:00
Dr Finn Olav Sveen
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Row-based input tables provide a very concise way to enter values, especially if input values are identical for many elements of the considered dimensions. Each row in the table represents a particular rule used in the simulation. What happens to a rule when we use rolling forecast to adjust the time horizon of the model?
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<p>Used in this manner, row-based tables allow us to input sophisticated rules using minimal space.</p>
<p>What happens to a rule when we use ‘rolling forecast’ to adjust the time horizon of the model? The table below shows a typical setup of a model’s simulation horizon. The period between ‘start time’ and ‘start future’ is termed <em>history</em> and is represented in the model by the inputs in the <em>records</em> part of the HR Library. The period between ‘start future’ and ‘stop time’ is termed <em>future</em>. In this part of the time horizon, values from <em>history</em> combined with rules from the <em>drivers</em> section of the model are used to calculate future projections of the workforce.</p>
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<p>When we roll the forecast forward by one year, Smia is designed to retain the values within <em>history</em> and <em>future</em> and discard the others. Hence, the values for 2016 are discarded in the <em>records</em> section and for 2018 in the <em>drivers</em> section.</p>
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<p>The rule for 2019 is retained, while the rule for 2018, which is no longer part of <em>future</em>, is removed. This can in some cases be annoying, because we often use the ‘start future’ point in time to input generic rules that are valid for the whole <em>future</em>. Hence, it is often desirable to retain rules corresponding to the value of ‘start future’ as it was before rolling the forecast. Our desired result after rolling forecast is the following:</p>
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<p>How can we achieve this in HR Library based models?</p>
<p>The answer is to refer directly to the built-in Smia object ‘start future’ instead of the year 2018. We set the original input table up like this:</p>
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<div class="col-xs-3">100%/year</div>
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<div class="col-xs-3">80%/year</div>
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<p>We now have a specific rule for 2019, but also a generic rule valid from the start of <em>future</em>. When we roll the forecast forward, both rows are retained.</p>
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<p>To allow for inputting ‘start future’ and retaining the value, a change must be made in the formula of the ‘time’ column. To make the change, enter <em>design mode</em> by clicking on the blue triangular ruler symbol in the toolbar: <img src="/news/handling-time-in-row-based-input-tables-when-rolling-forecast-5929/4137/design-mode.icon.png" alt="Design mode icon"> Then click on the column header in the table to edit the formula.</p>
<p>Original formula:</p>
<p><strong>data</strong> {<span style="color: #008000;">r</span>=<span style="color: #ff6600;">row</span>| <span>…</span> } <strong><u>as</u></strong> <span style="color: #ff6600;">future</span> <strong><u>default</u></strong> <strong style="color: #0066ff;">empty</strong></p>
<p>Updated formula:</p>
<p>{<span style="color: #008000;">r</span>=<span style="color: #ff6600;">row</span>| <span>…</span> } <strong><u>as</u></strong> <span style="color: #ff6600;">future</span> <strong><u>default</u></strong> <strong style="color: #0066ff;">empty</strong></p>
<p>Confirm with the Enter key. You can now write ‘start future’ instead of the year. ‘start future’ refers to the start of <em>future</em> and the row-based input table shows this value directly.</p>
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<p>If you do not have <em>design mode</em> access or would like assistance in making the adjustments in your model, please <a href="/#contact">contact us</a>.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/dynaplans-security-management-is-iso-27001-compliant-5928
Dynaplan’s security management is ISO 27001 compliant
2019-04-08T09:45:37+02:00
Dr Finn Olav Sveen
finn.olav.sveen@dynaplan.com
As of 3 April 2019, Dynaplan complies with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management. The system helps us to ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements.
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<p>As of 3 April 2019, Dynaplan complies with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard for information security management.</p>
<p>Together with Watchcom Security Group, we have evaluated and further developed our Information Security Management System. The system helps us to ensure that data are handled according to best practices and legal requirements, such as the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/from-recognition-to-creation-5927
From recognition to creation
2019-01-26T17:13:04+01:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
With New Year’s Eve a few weeks behind us, our focus has already shifted from closing one year to opening the next. At work, you have probably rolled your sleeves up and your models forward; you are ready for creating the ultimate plan for the year. It would surprise us if your strategic agenda does not cover current fast and deep changes in technology, processes, organisations, and environment.
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<h1>From recognition to creation</h1>
<p>With New Year’s Eve a few weeks behind us, our focus has already shifted from closing one year to opening the next.</p>
<p>At work, you have probably rolled your sleeves up and your models forward; you are ready for creating the ultimate plan for the year.</p>
<p>It would surprise us if your strategic agenda does not cover current fast and deep changes in technology, processes, organisations, and environment. We are likely to experience changes that break the patterns of the past. What does this mean for our tool box? First of all, new patterns render data-driven analytics useless in forecasting. The reason for this is obvious: there is no data from the future; and without data, the powerful analytics engines become stranded like a bird without wings.</p>
<p>In such times, Dynaplan’s simulation approach shows its true strengths. Figuratively speaking, Smia models allow you to soar from the solid ground of data on the wings of business logic (cause-and-effect chains). This is possible since Smia models rely on assumptions and decisions that you want to test out; it can take you to areas where there is no road (data), to explore new ideas for creating the patterns of the future.</p>
<p>In this issue of our newsletter, we cover community, market, and technology topics pointing at the importance of involvement in strategy and planning. You will get a brief look back at last year’s convention, and forward at upcoming webinars. Starting mainly in the DACH region, Dynaplan’s solutions are finding their ways to new regions. Towards the end of the newsletter we describe technology developing in the area of collaboration, making it even easier for multiple planning entities to collaborate throughout the planning process.</p>
<p>We wish all our readers a successful start of 2019, and look forward to working together with you and supporting you.</p>
<p>Your Dynaplan team</p>
<h2>Contents at a glance</h2>
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<li>Convention Nov 2018</li>
<li>HR practice group Nov 2018</li>
<li>Webinars together with DGFP in 2019</li>
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<li>PDF output from Smia</li>
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<h3>Convention November 2018</h3>
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<p>On the morning of November 13, the participants of the convention expected a varied program under the motto «Living the adventure – Remodelling your workforce». Mr Günther from AOK Hessen started the event by sharing his experiences of working with Dynaplan over the last 12 years on developing SWP within AOK Hessen, and especially the high relevance of the topic in the current transformation process. Then we welcomed Mr David Green, one of the key influencers and famous blogger in the field of people analytics (PA) worldwide. Mr Green presented the trends in PA and the link to SWP. Based on this, the participants collected best practices in the area of SWP governance, SWP skills and SWP customer value in three parallel breakout sessions.</p>
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<p>After a wonderful lunch, the market place presentations followed. AOK Hessen (transformation scenarios), Schaeffler (SWP governance), Lufthansa (apprentice simulation model), and Philips (global job clustering) each shared how they address different aspects of SWP in the context of current business cases. Deutsche Bahn gave some insights about linking the external view of the labour market and the internal demand and supply, thus giving the participants some important impulses.</p>
<p>A big thanks to the AOK Hessen, you were an excellent host in all matters, even giving all the participants helpful tips on staying healthy during the winter season.</p>
<p>To all the participants of the Dynaplan community and to all the participants to be – See you at our next convention in 2020!</p>
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<p class="text-center"><a class="image-with-zoom" href="/news/from-recognition-to-creation-5927/4120/convention-participants.jpg" data-fancybox="newsletter-pictures" data-caption="Participants of the 8th Dynaplan Convention"> <img class="image-centralized" src="/news/from-recognition-to-creation-5927/4121/convention-participants.thumb.jpg" alt="Participants of the 8th Dynaplan Convention"> <span class="icon icon-zoom"> </span> </a></p>
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<h3>HR practice group November 2018</h3>
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<p>This time the HR practice group took place on the day before the convention, 12 November. The community elaborated on different ways of quantifying the future workforce demand in the models. Also, the process of defining and following up on SWP measures was discussed, and many good ideas for increasing the impact within the organisations were collected. Last but not least, a brief introduction to the upcoming Smia 2.0 release was given, highlighting different new possibilities to work with Smia (e.g. full screen mode), as well as optimisations within collaboration setups (see «Cloud window» below).</p>
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<h3>Introduction to SWP – Webinars together with DGFP in 2019</h3>
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<p>Dynaplan is a content partner for the webinar series about strategic workforce planning. After two successful runs in 2018, the next webinar is taking place between 12 and 29 March 2019 (only in German). Click the button below to sign up and read more about the contents and learning objectives.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/events/webinar-strategic-workforce-planning-with-dgfp-12-mar-2019-42"><span>Read more about the SWP Webinars</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Our initiative to reduce the effort to get started with strategic workforce planning bears fruits: several companies are already working with our out-of-the-box solution HR Match, the fastest and most efficient way to get value out of strategic workforce planning. To learn more about it, click the button below to see our video explaining why and how this solution works. Also, on the same page you can request access to the free starter version with planning capabilities for up to 250 FTEs, or just contact us via <a href="mailto:contact@dynaplan.com">contact@dynaplan.com</a> so we can learn about your needs and develop an offer for your organisation.</p>
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<p>The last quarter of the year has been very international for Dynaplan. The customer sessions in Bangkok (Thailand) and Moscow (Russia) together with our partners RosExpert and Korn Ferry were a unique opportunity to build up our knowledge about the workforce challenges outside Europe, and to get feedback on our solutions.</p>
<p>RosExpert set up a working group consisting of HR executives of the largest Russian companies from the business areas of telecommunication and social networks, banking, steel and gold, as well as oil and gas production. This working group got acquainted with Dynaplan’s innovative planning approach via Dynaplan’s SWP Game on iPads, as well as sharing their experience on this topic. Russia just announced that they will increase the official retirement age by 5 years for men and 8 years for women.</p>
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<p>A leading bank in Thailand shared its experience with our SWP solution as part of the business breakfast organised by Korn Ferry Thailand in the centre of Bangkok. Around 40 participants enjoyed the «Demystify SWP session», and took part in our simulation game competition.</p>
<p>One insight is clear: Russian and Asian companies face challenges in demographics, efficient use of workforce resources, as well as future job roles in the context of digitalisation, and therefore have a need for well-founded, simulation-based strategic workforce planning, or to put it in the words of one of the participants: «An application that allows you to simulate the number and costs of workforce is simply a must have.»</p>
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<p>With our technology we try to help you as our customer to make the best use of your:</p>
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<p><strong>data</strong> – to see the patterns in your business up until now through reports and analytics</p>
<p><strong>knowledge</strong> – to structure the understanding inside your organisation into models</p>
<p><strong>creativity</strong> – to use your models to explore different ideas, expressed as scenarios</p>
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<p>so you can create the future business patterns, or results, that you envision.</p>
<p>Collaboration is an integral element of this vision. Colleagues cooperate in obtaining and analysing data, in contributing to identify the forces driving your business forward, and in developing the strategic plan.</p>
<p>In the <a href="/news/towards-planning-machines-5921#technology">May 2018 issue of the newsletter</a>, we covered collaboration in Smia 1.6. The upcoming release of Smia 2.0 builds further on this solution in several ways:</p>
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<li>Simplified user interface.</li>
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<p>As an example of the first bullet point, let us look at an organisation structured in three levels, as shown below:</p>
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<p>From the perspective of the global planner, the new «Cloud window» in Smia will show the planning entities in a tree-view, as displayed next:</p>
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<p>To consolidate the selected models at the second level, a global planner can simply press the «Update» button (not shown in the picture). Smia will then check the consistency of the model and perform the necessary steps to consolidate the local models into their global parent.</p>
<p>A nice property of Smia’s collaboration feature is that every planning unit gets its own sandbox for developing local scenarios and figuring out the best way to accomplish its own targets. The automatic transfer of data both ways in the hierarchy ensures that data are consistent at all levels.</p>
<h3>Tips & tricks</h3>
<p>Sometimes you might be asked for a PDF document or printout of the main results of your planning model.</p>
<p>The straight-forward solution is to copy the relevant charts, tables, and labels from your model and paste them into a word document which you convert to PDF or print out later.</p>
<p>Another possibility is to use Smia’s print feature. The command «File | Print» allows you to print the current Smia diagram or all Smia diagrams. The current diagram can also be printed by pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>P</kbd>.</p>
<p>To create a PDF document, select the printer called «Microsoft Print to PDF».</p>
<p>In design mode, you can mark a page to be excluded or included when printing. The default is that all pages are included. If you want to design some special pages for print-out, it might be an idea to ask your modeler to exclude all pages from printing, and to create a collection of diagrams reserved for printing only. This way you can generate a PDF showing your results by just one command: «File | Print | All diagrams».</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/free-upgrade-of-sme-planning-calculator-to-hr-match-5926
Free upgrade of SME Planning Calculator to HR Match
2019-01-04T12:02:50+01:00
Dr Kai Berendes
kai.berendes@dynaplan.com
The KMU Planungsrechner (SME Planning Calculator) is an entry-level strategic workforce planning solution for small and mid-size companies, developed by Dynaplan together with DGFP, IBE and other contributors. As maintenance of the planning model ended in 2018, Dynaplan offers a free upgrade to HR Match, including import of data from your SME Planning Calculator models.
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<p>The KMU Planungsrechner (SME Planning Calculator) is an entry-level strategic workforce planning solution for small and mid-size companies, developed by Dynaplan together with DGFP, IBE and other contributors.</p>
<p>The project was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany) in the context of the INQA (Initiative of New Quality of Work).</p>
<p>Maintenance of the planning model ended in 2018.</p>
<p>Dynaplan offers a free upgrade to HR Match, including import of data from your SME Planning Calculator models.</p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/publication-about-the-evolution-of-swp-at-deutsche-bahn-5925
Publication about the evolution of SWP at Deutsche Bahn
2018-11-20T13:12:34+01:00
Dr Philipp Wunderlich
philipp.wunderlich@dynaplan.com
The world is complex! Considering the fast and severely changing business environment, this expression is on everyone’s lips. But what does complexity mean in terms of strategic workforce planning? Does planning make sense at all? And if so, which design principles should such planning follow?
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<p>The world is complex! Considering the fast and severely changing business environment, this expression is on everyone’s lips. But what does complexity mean in terms of strategic workforce planning? Does planning make sense at all? And if so, which design principles should such planning follow?</p>
<p>Kai Berendes from Dynaplan AG, Claudia de Andrés-Gayón and Stefan Kotkamp from the Deutsche Bahn Group give practice-led answers and describe how strategic workforce planning at Deutsche Bahn evolved over the years from focusing mainly on running the business to a process that supports changing the business.</p>
<p>To find out how Deutsche Bahn manages the spread between agility and stability, click on the link below.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/solutions/strategic-workforce-planning/263/evolution-of-swp-at-deutsche-bahn.pdf"><span>Evolution of Strategic Workforce Planning at Deutsche Bahn</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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https://www.dynaplan.com/en/news/shaping-and-living-scenarios-and-agility-5924
Shaping and living — scenarios and agility
2018-09-19T20:34:34+02:00
Mr Magnar Myrtveit
magnar.myrtveit@dynaplan.com
Our annual Dynaplan convention is less than two months away. The preparations for it started many months ago here at Dynaplan and by our host AOK. This year our focus is on reshaping the future workforce and living the adventure. Together, shaping and living can create organisations that are both robust and agile at the same time.
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<h1>Shaping and living — scenarios and agility</h1>
<p>Outside my window, nature is re-coloured with autumn colours, making a splendid view in shades of green, red, and yellow, under a blue sky, and mirrored in the silver surface on a lake.</p>
<p>Our annual Dynaplan convention is less than two months away. The preparations for it started many months ago here at Dynaplan and by our host AOK. This year our focus is on reshaping the future workforce and living the adventure.</p>
<p>We chose this topic because we believe that</p>
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<li>agility with poor planning exposes us to risk, risk that can turn the adventures we want to live into nightmares.</li>
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<p>Together, shaping and living can create organisations that are both robust and agile at the same time.</p>
<p>We do look forward to seeing as many as possible of our readers at the convention in November, where we will enjoy the colourful Dynaplan community and share and grow our insights into important topics.</p>
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<li>Learning about the future — Evolution of SWP at Deutsche Bahn</li>
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<h3>Meet us at the UNLEASH World Conference & Expo, 23–24 October in Amsterdam</h3>
<p>The world’s largest gathering of HR leaders & HR technology is just around the corner. A must for those of you who like to always be ahead and get to know the latest developments in HR technology. We will present our new Dynaplan HR Match solution — the fast track to SWP. Visit our branded kiosk or <a href="/#contact">contact us</a> for a meeting slot in Amsterdam.</p>
<h3>8th annual Dynaplan Convention — Tuesday 13 November</h3>
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<p>As we are getting closer to our yearly convention, we would like to share some more details about the programme and speakers, as well as our <a href="/events/8th-convention-living-the-adventure-2018-11-13-37/126/convention-flyer.de.pdf">convention flyer</a> (only available in German).</p>
<p>We are proud to welcome David Green, one of the key influencers in the field of people analytics worldwide. You have probably seen some of his blog entries already. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet him in person and join the discussion about trends in people analytics and the link to SWP.</p>
<p>One key driver of our convention is the idea to learn from other use cases in our community. This time we are happy to listen to Deutsche Bahn and Schaeffler about the integration of external market data, as well as SWP governance.</p>
<p>The integration of data is still one critical success factor for the simulation of scenarios. During the networking event in the evening 12 November, the day before the official start, you can learn about the updated interface between Dynaplan Smia and the SAP content for the implementation partner Cubeserv. The networking event will also include a winter barbeque.</p>
<p>As you can see it is really worth arriving already in the evening the day before and be part of the networking. To help you with the logistics and make it easy to get there we will provide optional shuttle service from Frankfurt airport to the convention centre (AOK Hessen Bildungszentrum).</p>
<p>Get your seat for the Dynaplan Convention and join our community. The main language for the convention will be German, with some presentations in English. We are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
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<h3>HR practice group — Monday 12 November</h3>
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<p>Join us on 12 November, the day before the convention, for the next HR practice group. Like the convention, it will be hosted by AOK Hessen in Homberg Ohm. As always, we will follow the successful recipe with ingredients including sharing best practices from one practitioner to another, discussing current challenges with the strategic workforce planning setup, as well as developing and refining according solutions together. This event is exclusively reserved for Dynaplan customers.</p>
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<h3>HR Match in Bruderhaus Diakonie</h3>
<p>The care sector is facing big challenges these days. The requirements for the respective institutions change significantly with the demographic and technological development. At the same time, finding qualified employees is getting more difficult. In order to address those and similar strategic questions, Bruderhaus Diakonie is setting up strategic workforce planning with our HR Match solution. The foundation takes care of over 10,000 people in Baden-Württemberg (DE), and is active in care of the elderly, care of the disabled, youth welfare, as well as social psychiatry. We are very proud to count them as our customer.</p>
<h3>Learning about the future — Evolution of SWP at Deutsche Bahn</h3>
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<p>A new article about the evolution of strategic workforce planning is published in the current issue of the magazine Personalführung 09/2018. Claudia de Andrès-Gayón and Stefan Kotkamp of Deutsche Bahn, together with Kai Berendes, describe how they have developed the approach of strategic workforce planning against the background of new requirements in the field of digitisation and agile organisations over 3 development levels.</p>
<p>Two points in particular stand out: On one hand, there is constant improvement in the efficiency of the ongoing operation of the important planning function. Here, for example, the new Dynaplan Shared Models are used to facilitate coordination between the stakeholder groups. On the other hand, the quality of planning models is increased through a stronger qualitative discussion, for example to include new competences in areas affected by changes in a lean and fast process to support transformation.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the authors highlight the importance of strategic planning, especially in times of uncertainty. It is not about predicting the world as accurately as possible, but about preparing for possible developments or, in other words, learning about the future. The simulation of scenarios thus becomes a key function for agile organisations.</p>
<p><a class="_button" style="touch-action: pan-y; -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" href="/news/shaping-and-living-scenarios-and-agility-5924/4043/personalfuhrung-09-2018.pdf"><span>Read the full article (only available in German)</span><em class="_icon-internal-white"> </em></a></p>
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<p>Our R&D activities involve both software developers and consultants. HR Match, mentioned earlier in this letter, is a solution where developers and modellers work together to create a standardised SWP solution, aimed especially at aiding smaller and mid-size organisations in getting started with SWP.</p>
<p>The development of the core technology, Dynaplan Smia and the associated web services, is an on-going process. Dynaplan is continuing its significant investments to make innovations that help customers be agile in order to deal with both known and yet unknown challenges, and opportunities waiting around the next corner.</p>
<p>In parallel with the development of new releases, the development team has devoted significant resources to prepare step changes in the way our solutions are delivered and accessed, and in the way our customers can organise their work. The Smia 2.0 release, planned for November, will be based on a new software architecture, opening new short- and long-term possibilities for running your Smia models on new platforms.</p>
<p>In the wake of the introduction of GDPR, focus on security is strengthened, not only regarding processing of personal data, but also all information security related questions. At Dynaplan, we already have very strong features for protecting models and data from unauthorised access. We are continuously improving the security of our technology and processes. As an example, we plan to offer customers multi-factor authentication for access to customer data at dynaplan.com.</p>
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<p class="visible-md-up">Communication through colours — Smia’s multi-layered colouring feature, accessible from the palette button.</p>
<h4>Colouring identity</h4>
<p>For sure, all our readers are accustomed with how colours can be assigned to slides in PowerPoint, text in Word, and cells in Excel. Similarly, Smia’s «Normal colouring» mode allows modellers to assign custom colours to tables, charts, boxes, arrows, etc. One of the many uses of normal colouring is to visualise the Smia model in the customer’s corporate colours.</p>
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<p>Typical Smia models — whether the topic is SWP, controlling, health or something else – contain a large number of variables. It can be challenging to inspect large models, to understand the meaning and status of each variable, and to perceive the relationships among groups of variables.</p>
<p>The «Content colouring» mode is made possible through Smia’s strong support for measurement units and currencies. In this mode, you can easily identify the different kinds of “material” your model is built up from, and follow the cause and effect chains and transformations of information from one substance to the other. A set of conventions are defined as a basis for the colouring, with possibilities for the user to add and modify colours as desired.</p>
<p>In our experience, 5–9 colours are all you need to cover the main measurements used in most models. It is good practice to document the meaning of each colour inside the model, as illustrated.</p>
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<p>«Review status colouring» is used to assist quality assurance. Here a traffic light metaphor is used.</p>
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<p>In the review status mode, you can easily identify which parts of the model you need to review. We recommend that no model is taken into production unless all equations are reviewed and approved.</p>
<h4>Colouring history</h4>
<p>The two last colouring modes use the colours of the rainbow to represent how recently a variable was created or modified. It gives you a very quick overview of the “hot” areas of your model, i.e., areas that contain new stuff or recent changes, and the “cold” areas, where equations are settled and not changed for a long time. Together with the advanced search function, this can help you identify recent changes to your model, and even who to talk to if you want to discuss a particular change.</p>
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<p>With this glimpse into Smia’s colouring models, we wish you new insights into your models, and a colourful autumn!</p>
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