Aquire - wisdom within

How you define reporting relationships, formulate divisions, and manage span of control depth all support (or impede) your business goals. By regularly analyzing and refining your organizational structure, you ensure all aspects of your workforce plan remain in line with where the company is headed. Jennifer Giles, Aquire Enterprise Account Manager, shows you how modeling “what-if?” scenarios allows you to preview the impact of potential plans before making a single organizational change. You’ll also see how Aquire Modeling’s intuitive tools let you test multiple scenarios to discover the most beneficial design for your organization’s success.

A $9.4 billion force in the diversified automotive industry, JM Family Enterprises, Inc., had for years juggled growth, acquisitions and a very competitive business environment. It needed a better way to track, analyze and obtain actionable information about its growing — and distributed — workforce.

One of the greatest challenges of implementing a successful merger or acquisition is aligning and optimizing separate workforces. With effective workforce planning and management processes, organizations can streamline and improve five specific phases of the M&A process.

Modeling is for more than M&As and RIFs — it’s a significant opportunity to drive profitability and result in a competitive advantage over your rivals. Utilize scenario planning tools for annual budget planning, internal reorganizations and long-term strategic workforce planning. With Aquire Modeling, your team can collaborate to analyze one or more possible futures to choose the best option to align your workforce with your business goals.

Reductions in Force (RIF) can have a strategic impact on your organization. While RIFs may be inevitable in today’s economy, approaching them with the proper workforce intelligence in hand is invaluable.

Lois Melbourne, GPHR & Aquire CEO, addresses the pros and cons of centralized vs. decentralized Reductions in Force (RIF). Strategic workforce planning issues such as aging/retiring employees and legal issues are included. Melbourne identifies key information HR leaders need prior to planning the details of a successful RIF. Aquire’s strategic workforce management software, including its OrgPublisher automated organization chart software, is featured. 

This discussion of Reduction in Force (RIF) Management begins with reasons RIFs may occur, then progresses to 5 Steps to Managing an Efficient and Cost-Effective Reduction in Force. The importance of steps such as centralizing and automating documentation throughout the process and how to do so are addressed. A case study of a large biotech company’s first-ever RIF details their proactive approach to creating a streamlined, efficient and accurate RIF process by using Aquire’s workforce management software. The webinar demonstrates how Aquire’s SAP integration capabilities allowed them to create accurate corporate organizational charts using the most current workforce data throughout the process. 

This session addresses the challenges of managing a Reduction in Force (RIF) and a merger in tandem. Discussion includes succession planning, bench strength analysis, workforce integration, compliance issues, modeling options, key employee retention and the importance of automated org chart software for up-to-date charts and data integrity. A case study of a Fortune 500 Oil & Gas company’s simultaneous acquisition of two companies is presented along with a demonstration of Aquire’s workforce planning software.