Strategic Workforce Planning

Are You Ready for the Future?

Against a backdrop of changing mission requirements and increased public expectations of what the government can deliver, agencies are striving to attain the next level of performance—incorporating mission changes while they implement new technologies, adapt operating practices, and maintain stable budgets or respond to diminishing budgets. These multiple challenges will have a profound effect on the resources federal agencies require, creating a need for organizations to adapt the size and mix of the government workforce, leverage alternate workforce resources, and strengthen workforce capabilities.

Booz Allen’s Services and Approach

Booz Allen helps clients “connects the dots” between the strategic direction of their workforce capabilities and workforce changes needed to perform their missions well. We:

• Translate mission requirements into workforce requirements
• Assess gaps between future needs and current state, looking at multiple aspects of the workforce, including overall size, performance, and scalability
• Support the current mission while planning and preparing for the future
• Connect workforce planning to other change enablers, such as business simplification, improved operating practices, and new technologies
• Build an internal workforce planning capability to continually shape the workforce in response to environmental influences, changing mission priorities, and technological progress

Our approach can be characterized as:

• Strategic — All workforce planning activities align with, support, and reinforce the organization’s overall mission, goals, and performance expectations
• Comprehensive — Workforce planning activities are designed so that the results can be integrated and aligned with other planning functions and human capital management activities
• Customized — Approaches are tailored to clients' specific needs, time frames, business practices and organizational priorities

Our approach results in a number of outputs, ranging from a sustainable operating model for workforce management to planning tools that analyze workforce demand in response to changes in business drivers.

Assessment Process for Workforce Capability Management

Representative Client Engagements

Our past clients include:

• Department of Health and Human Services
• NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
• US Special Operations Center for Knowledge and Futures
• US Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Yokosuka, Japan
• Internal Revenue Service
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Science Foundation