Demographic shifts and a knowledge-based economy are leading to shortages of both talent and key skills, making workforce management more complex. While companies clearly understand that their workforce is critical, they often don’t have the information needed to make strategic decisions about how to make the best use of their talent.

Today, most top tier companies have access to a great deal of workforce data within their enterprise HR management systems, but lack the ability to transform that data into useful, actionable business intelligence. With workforce planning and analytics technology, businesses can accelerate their growth with deeper, targeted insights into their workforce dynamics. According to Deloitte’s 2014 Human Capital Trends survey, 86% of companies do not have any analytics capabilities in HR, and 67% are ‘weak’ at using HR data to predict workforce performance and improvement. While the study revealed significant gaps in their current readiness and capabilities, an underlying importance of building HR and talent analytics capabilities was high, across the board.

Organizations in today’s market need to re-evaluate and re-invent their business tools and processes—and most importantly, make organizational changes based on facts with insights into what changes will keep them competitive and successful. Developing talent strategies based on data-driven information and trends is what prudent companies are focusing on in the coming years. With the employment rates set to grow in the in the GCC alongside two global events, namely; EXPO 2020, Dubai and Qatar 2022 World Cup, the region has already witnessed manpower growth with a large influx of both local and foreign talent.

To understand the capabilities of workforce analytics and how it drives business outcomes, Fleming Gulf – one of the leading providers of business intelligence through industry specific conferences, webinars and skills enhancement training courses announces its inaugural 'Workforce Analytics Forum', which will take place on 26 – 27 May, 2015 at Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai – UAE. The forum is structured to provide an understanding of HR analytic principles and practical implementations with a focus on the real time case studies of various segments and strategy plans, presentations from specialists and round table discussions. This summit will host speakers from companies such as Aujan Coco Cola, Emirates NBD, Du Telecom, Oman LNG, Qatar Gas, Public Works Authority - Ashghal – Qatar, Electricity and Water Authority Bahrain, and Fedral Authority for Government Human Resources - UAE.