Monitoring and Tracking
Keep an immediate, clear and actionable line of sight on your progress and connect it to your business objectives
Do you have the right visibility into your organization?
In today’s fast-moving business landscape, keeping a clear view of your organization’s structure and progress is essential. Orgvue offers powerful solutions to help you achieve this—whether you need to monitor headcount and costs in real-time or track your progress against plans and targets. From out-of-the-box insights to advanced tracking capabilities, Orgvue ensures you have the visibility and control you need to make informed decisions and steer your organization toward success.
1. Headcount and cost monitoring
The Orgvue monitoring capability is our out-of-the-box solution for monitoring your organization’s key metrics. With dashboards, interactive org charts, and visualizations, you’ll have a complete picture of your business at any moment.
It allows you to easily visualize changes, understand where it’s happening, and why.
- Visualize net change in the workforce by month: Understand which areas are experiencing change, helping you make strategic decisions
- See headcount and cost impacts on the business: View the effects of hiring or movement by department or cost center, allowing you to manage resources effectively
- Analyze organizational shifts by verticals: Break down changes by country, department, job family, or pay grade, so you can pinpoint the source of any significant changes
2. Advanced tracking
For organizations that require deeper insights, Advanced Tracking offers enhanced capabilities. Building on Orgvue’s monitoring capability, it enables you to track progress against targets, forecasts, and strategic goals. It provides a way to measure performance, identify deviations, and take action where needed, helping you stay on course and make informed decisions.
- Track your progress against key targets and budgets: Automatically compare actuals with your planned outcomes to identify variances and determine where adjustments are necessary
- Forecast future state and their impacts: Use data-driven forecasts to understand how upcoming changes will affect your headcount, costs, and overall strategy.
- Drill down into detailed breakdowns: Analyze headcount and cost trends by month, quarter, or year to uncover the specific areas and reasons behind deviations.
- Visualize historic workforce trends: Review headcount and cost data to identify patterns and anticipate future challenges, helping you prioritize actions.
- Course-correct based on data: Gain insight into under- or over-budget areas, and make real-time adjustments to hiring, spending, or resource allocation to keep your organization on track
Why is workforce tracking and monitoring important?
Effective workforce tracking and monitoring have become essential components of successful workforce management. Organizations can no longer rely on reactive measures to manage their teams; they need proactive tools and techniques to stay ahead. Here’s why workforce planning solutions are crucial:
- Optimize resource allocation: Tracking and monitoring workforce data ensures that resources are distributed efficiently to meet organizational needs.
- Improve employee productivity: With a clear understanding of workforce dynamics, managers can identify areas where support or intervention may be needed to enhance productivity.
- Enhance decision making: Predictive workforce monitoring provides actionable insights, helping leaders make timely informed decisions based on accurate data.
- Achieve business goals: Aligning workforce capacity with business objectives through robust tracking ensures that organizational strategies are met effectively.
Adapt to change: Workforce tracking technology allows businesses to quickly adapt to shifting market demands or operational needs.
How it works
Headcount and cost monitoring
- Understand month-over-month shifts, including joiners, leavers, and employees you move internally
- Visualize net changes by month and department to identify areas of high turnover or growth
- See the headcount and cost impacts of hiring at both aggregate and department levels
- Drill into detailed changes to track how employees or positions have been added, moved, or exited
- Break down changes across verticals such as countries, departments, job families, or pay grades
Understand the different reasons the headcount and cost shift month over month, and locate the changes
See how entire teams are changing: Understand which positions have been added, changed or closed
Understand cost trends over time
View your actuals vs your target
Advanced tracking
- Track progress against your plan by aggregating actual headcount and cost trends, automatically calculating deviations from budgets
- Use forecasted changes to assess future impacts and compare new models with actuals to guide decisions on moving forward
- Drill into breakdowns by month, quarter, or year to identify why or where you’re off plan and make necessary course corrections
- Visualize historic trends and pinpoint deviations in headcount or cost to focus on areas needing attention
- Hold leaders accountable by tracking the net impact of planned actions against actuals
Best practices for implementing workforce tracking and monitoring
Implementing workforce tracking and monitoring requires a structured approach to maximize its benefits. Follow these best practices to ensure success:
- Define clear objectives: Start by identifying what you aim to achieve with workforce tracking—whether it’s improving efficiency, reducing costs, or aligning workforce capacity with business goals.
- Choose the right technology: Select workforce tracking technology that integrates forward-looking analytics (predictive analytics), enabling you to stay ahead with accurate forecasting.
- Engage stakeholders: Align HR, finance, and operational leaders to ensure everyone understands the benefits and contributes to the implementation process.
- Maintain data accuracy: Use a reliable headcount tracker and ensure all data is accurate, consistent, and up to date.
- Monitor and adapt: Continuously track metrics like turnover rates and productivity levels, and adjust strategies as necessary to meet evolving business needs.
Customer story
Using Orgvue to track against targets and see cost reduction over time
$300m
Cost savings
Cost savings tracked in real time.
150
Business partners
150 business partners collaborating on Orgvue.
2,200
Business records
Records managed in one view of the global program.
We needed a system to show how our 150 HR business partners in 30+ countries were doing against the targets in their areas.
CFO, Leading global manufacturer
Business goal
- Reduce costs by $300m through a global workforce restructure
- Track the benefit of synergies and talent decisions in real time
- Enable visibility and transparency of governance and control
- Enable HR and Finance to speak a common language that will improve collaboration
Solution
- Made use of the workforce plan built previously
- Replaced regional Excel-based monitoring with a universal view and visually engaging reports
- Monitored plans centrally against one dataset with organization-wide accessibility and regional views
- Tracked and monitored the organizational system to show progress against targets and gaps in performance
Data sheet
Tracking and monitoring
Learn more about how Orgvue can help you to monitor your business over time, from data to design to delivery and back again.
- Connect data at various points in time with predefined targets, so you can spot opportunities and course correct initiatives in flight.
- Report on metrics such as cost, headcount and full time equivalent
- Drill into position or person level detail
- A real customer story of tracking and monitoring
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