Workforce Risk Evaluator - WiRE™

Deadlines are getting shorter. Projects are growing larger. Policies are getting more complicated. All the while, talent pools and budgets seem to be shrinking. These and other challenges are affecting the ability of organizations to balance the work they must accomplish with the workforce they have to do so.

Booz Allen Hamilton has developed an automated workforce planning assessment tool—Workforce Risk Evaluator (WiRE™)—that will help organizations confront these difficult challenges. WiRE is based on our firm’s years of experience working side by side with small, medium, and large organizations facing an array of difficult challenges. WiRE expedites the often time- and resource-intensive process of identifying key workforce issues and takes the first crucial step in workforce planning—problem diagnosis.

WiRE simplifies the otherwise daunting evaluation process through a flexible, user-friendly, web-based tool. The tool automates Booz Allen’s established methodology for gathering strategic-level information about key workforce issues.

For additional information about WiRE or Booz Allen's broader Workforce Planning service offering, please contact one of our WiRE experts or register to request a complimentary session of WiRE.

WiRE Components

• Identify drivers affecting the organization
• Assess the impact of those drivers on work and workforce requirements
• Evaluate risk factors related to the current workforce
• Evaluate risk factors related to the organizations’ workforce management practices.

The Impact

These WiRE components ask vital questions and allow agencies to—

• Gather essential workforce data points
• Isolate key drivers and impacts on workforce issues
• Identify and explore factors that contribute to workforce risk
• Streamline evaluation time
• Solicit involvement from all levels of management and leadership across geographically dispersed areas.

The Result

The result is a profile of prioritized workforce strengths and risks. Managers are now armed with critical information necessary for conducting focused analysis and solution development. With Booz Allen’s support, clients can—

• Provide management teams with consensus building information on key workforce issues
• Gain the insight needed to take actionable steps
• Prioritize actions that can be taken to rebalance organizations’ work and the workforces required to accomplish it.

As managers’ and leaders’ competing priorities continue to mount, using precious workforce resources efficiently becomes all the more important. Managers must be able to quickly pinpoint key workforce-related issues and risks so that they can be smarter and faster in knowing which issues to resolve. WiRE is the tool that any manager from any organization can use to do just that.

For additional information about WiRE or Booz Allen's broader Workforce Planning service offering, please contact one of our WiRE experts or register to request a complimentary session of WiRE.