The Resource Planning Model™ (RPM) is a scenario-driven tool to help business units anticipate their staff resource requirements over short- and medium-term durations. RPM also provides the capability of precisely quantifying the impact on organizational staffing that results from strategic acquisitions and divestitures, regional expansion, technology adoption, or even normal business growth.
How important is balancing staff resources?
The many variables that account for the changes in business workload
also affect the fluctuation in staff resource requirements. Imagine
having the ability to match your resources with a changing workload
in a measured, precise way so that you never have more or less than
you actually need. RPM provides the capability of predicting how many
employees are needed to balance the varying workload by accurately
plotting the number of staff required on a timely basis. Because of
its accurate view of operating reality, RPM helps operational management
build a solid business case when additional headcount may be warranted.
Are you prepared for business change?
Two key dynamics greatly impact staffing needs: business cycle seasonality,
and the timing and magnitude of strategic change. RPM handles both
with precision and ease.
RPM has a feature that allows a unit manager to build scenarios based
on potential business outcomes. For example, once you pinpoint the
driver that will be impacted from the increase in workload in a given
month, you'll be able to assess the impact on staffing for that month
and for the remainder of the year. You now have the ability to understand
– precisely – the resource implications of business strategy
as it pertains to the varying business units analyzed. RPM makes staffing
planning easy.
How Resource Planning Model™ Works
Insight Analytics' RPM helps your organization balance a changing
workload with your available staff resources. RPM uses output from
our unique Structured Metrics® methodology to assign reality-based
unit times to actual workload drivers. Secondly, departmental staff
resources are quantified to determine the sustainable capacity within
a business unit. The contrast between calculated future workload and
sustainable departmental capacity powers RPM.
Precisely match your resources with workload.
RPM demonstrates the correlation between staff resources and workload
by accurately plotting the number of staff required to perform work
on a monthly basis. In most cases, as work fluctuates, so will the
required number of staff.
As
workload is driven by process drivers, we can calculate future workload
based on extrapolation of historical volumes or a business unit's
operational and strategic plans for the coming 12 months. This volume
component is matched with previously calculated driver unit times
to yield future departmental workload on a monthly basis.
These two components – monthly workload and a department's sustainable capacity – are the key inputs to the Resource Planning Model. Output from this model is an intuitive yet sophisticated forecast of the number of staff resources required to perform anticipated workloads on a monthly basis.
Simplify staffing decisions
Insight Analytics is the market leader in reality-based process measurement
solutions. Through confidential, painless, and precise data collection
technology, accurate assessment of operating reality, and expertise
in scenario-driven model building, Insight Analytics can help you
make headcount decisions with confidence. In as little as six weeks,
you can acquire leading edge modeling capability to dramatically improve
your resource planning efforts.
Are you ready to improve your resource planning decisions?
Contact Insight Analytics and get started now.
