Human resource managers face a variety of challenges in payroll management, people requirements, skills forecasting, performance planning and reporting. The HR tools to manage the payroll of employees are often used to provide analysis for the function of payroll and can also assist in making projections. Unfortunately, these analyses and projections are often limited because they do not provide “analytical view” in connection with the activity of the organization. The tools of the financial management team have other problems: they show an accounting view of salaries and it is not easy to analyze and forecast with this limited information. To analyze and plan the payroll, it is necessary to “cross” and ensure consistency between the data from the human resources department and those of the Finance department. The adoption of a common language between the CFO and HRD is crucial in order to forecast all the changes and understand the possible differences. During the budget process, for example the financial control is able to bring a vision to the FTE needs under the assumptions of activities. This information is valuable for the HRD who will be able to prepare his plans for hiring and give more accurate forecasts. Our experienced consultants understand human resource management processes and systems very well and can help our clients to design HR planning and performance models appropriately and support proper implementation.

Driver-based planning is an approach to management that identifies an organization's key business drivers and creates a series of business plans that mathematically model how those things most necessary for the organization's success would be affected by different variables The goal of driver-based planning is to focus business plans upon the criteria that are most capable of driving success. Identifying those key business drivers can be tricky if done in a subjective manner, however, and individuals within the same organization may have very different perceptions about what the key drivers of success are. This is why forecasting business drivers objectively through a mathematical model can be helpful. The models may be created with spreadsheets or with more advanced data modeling software applications. Our experienced consultants understand the importance of business drivers very well and understand the importance of aligning them into the business planning, budgeting, and forecasting. We embed the drivers in planning models and ensure that the models truly reflect the business intent of the managers. Our rich experience in building models and project management helps our clients to successfully implement the driver based planning models.