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What is digital transformation?

Digital transformation reshapes how you operate, compete, and deliver value in a world where change never slows. It reaches every part of the organization from systems and processes to how you serve customers. Technology might spark the shift, but people make it real.

Your workforce must be able to adapt, learn, and apply new ways of working. Many organizations start this journey in response to digital pressure while others build capability ahead of it. What separates them is clarity. When you understand your workforce well enough to see capacity, gaps, and options, you can adapt by design rather than necessity.

The challenge of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation moves fast, but workforce clarity often lags behind. That gap creates risk whether you’re responding to immediate digital demands or building long-term capability.

Leaders face:

  • Technology outpacing clear insight into workforce readiness
  • Talent shortages that slow or block critical initiatives
  • Disruption from AI and automation that steadily reshapes roles and workflows
  • Integrating new systems and understanding workforce impacts at scale
  • Fragmented data and no way to model workforce change dynamically
  • Misalignment between workforce planning and complex hybrid IT environments

The result? Transformation slows and investment underdelivers.

What Orgvue enables

Digital transformation changes the conditions in which work happens, and in many cases the work itself. Orgvue helps you understand what those shifts mean for your workforce so you can make decisions with clarity. The platform connects your technology plans to roles, skills, and capacity, giving you one place to explore workforce implications, compare scenarios, and plan change over time. Whether you’re responding to urgent digital demands or shaping long-term capability, Orgvue brings HR, Finance, IT, and the business around a shared understanding of what the transformation requires.

A diagram of a cycle reading clockwise: Analyze, Design, Plan, Monitor

Some of the most common use cases:

Cloud transformation

Understand how moving from on-premise to cloud or hybrid models affects roles, skills, and capacity. Plan multi-year transitions, reallocate resources, and design cloud-enabled operating models.

AI and automation

Identify work affected by automation and benchmark with industry data. Assess role and skill implications, and plan targeted upskilling or redeployment.

Skills prioritization

Combine labor market intelligence with internal data to pinpoint high-demand roles and critical gaps so CIO and CTO teams can focus reskilling and recruitment where it matters most.

Operating model redesign

See how work happens today and design future structures aligned with long-term digital investment and emerging ways of working.

How it works

1

Build a trusted data foundation

  • Consolidate data from HR systems, finance tools, and spreadsheets into a single view
  • Clean and align this data to create an accurate, trusted source of truth
  • Bring in external labor market data to accelerate decision-making and reduce workforce risks as digital needs evolve

Adding rate card data from a spreadsheet to people data in Orgvue

Visualizing activity details and classifying them as strategic, operational, or transactional

2

Understand the work and skills across your business

  • See the work being done, who performs it, and the cost or effort behind it
  • Identify critical skills and where they sit in the organization
  • Spot gaps, shortages, and potential areas of risk as digital needs evolve
  • Assess where upskilling, hiring, or redeployment may be needed
3

Model scenarios and design your future workforce

  • Add, remove, or adjust positions to explore different workforce options
  • See the impact of each change and discard scenarios that do not deliver value
  • Apply criteria such as skills, performance, tenure, and activities to make data driven decisions

Seeing the impact of your design and where position changes were made

Orgvue view showing talent selection progress on the org chart

4

Implement your plan and allocate the right talent to your new structure

  • Build talent pools by shortlisting people based on role requirements and reveal skills gaps
  • Confirm the best candidates for each role once scenarios are agreed
  • Manage implementation, redeployment, and any required exits after decisions are made
5

Monitor progress and maintain long term productivity

  • Track progress against your plan and report on value delivered
  • Monitor employee movement including joiners, movers, and leavers
  • Iterate and re-model quickly as internal or external conditions change

Comparing current headcount and cost against targets

Ask, and your data answers

Henshaw Assistant brings your data to life, giving you instant clarity on your workforce.

Ask questions like:
  • Show me the departments that include digital roles
  • How many people in North America have a role fit score higher than 85% for a cloud architect role?

Customer Story

Addressing talent gaps and digitalisation through Strategic Workforce Planning​

For the first time, we’re confident we can get the right workforce to meet the strategic objectives for the next 5 years, moving beyond quick fixes to a real long-term sourcing strategy.

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