Applying workforce science, analytics, and collaboration tools to build a smarter workforce
The workforce is critical to business success, yet employers struggle to find, engage, develop and retain talent.
Smarter Workforce helps meet today’s workforce challenges. Using workforce science, analytics and collaboration tools, Smarter Workforce brings together three elements to ensure a best-fit engaged workforce, develop deeper client relationships and drive measurable business outcomes.
- Attracting the best talent
- Creating a social, collaborative culture
- Connecting people to get work done
Talent Management solutions are part of the Smarter Workforce:
- Talent acquisition—attracting the right candidates to the right roles.
- Talent leadership and engagement—connecting the power of a highly engaged and fully enabled workforce with leaders aligned to critical roles.
- Talent optimization—rapidly developing, deploying, and optimizing workforce skills and capabilities, while capitalizing on an interconnected, social and collaborative workforce.
- Talent recognition and rewards—optimizing the way employees are recognized and rewarded.
- Talent analytics—transforming decision making through descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Featured solutions
Whether you are looking for a single solution or a broader workforce solution, IBM® offers the products and tools you need to realize the promise of a Smarter Workforce, including:
Sourcing and recruitment solutions to help you recruit quality candidates.
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Assessments to help you predict performance by measuring capacity, capability and culture fit.
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Onboarding tools to transform new hires into engaged and productive employees.
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Compensation and rewards that help you build compensation programs to invest wisely in people.
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Employee engagement solutions that help you translate employee feedback into business performance.
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Learning solutions to foster collaboration, networking and sharing within your company.
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Workforce performance management to manage talent and maximize performance.
Featured offers
Create a Smarter Workforce
Redesign the way your organization attracts, empowers and motivates employees.
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Build a smarter human resources function
Learn actionable suggestions for improving employee satisfaction with Human Resources.
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The Smarter Workforce workshop
Get personalized consultation to help transform your workforce through a strategic partnership with IBM.
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Technology linked to positive employee attitudes
Performance feedback beyond the annual appraisal: Feedback via technology linked to positive employee attitudes
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Featured products
- IBM Kenexa Talent Suite
Is an integrated cloud-based workforce and human capital management solution. This integrated software suite makes it easier for organizations to recruit, onboard, assess and retain top talent.
Watch the demo (00:04:10) - IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Hourly Roles
Identify and acquire candidates who will achieve optimal performance in critical hourly roles. - IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Professional and Managerial Roles
Identify and acquire candidates who will perform well in critical professional and managerial roles.
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IBM Kenexa Talent Insights
Talent Insights to drive analytics on the cloud using natural language. -
IBM Social Learning
Designed to inspire people to engage with one another, contribute expertise and learn using interactive media in near-real time. Helps streamline the learning process by applying analytics, revealing opportunities to optimize content and increasing learning efficiency. - IBM Kenexa Workforce Readiness
Identify the talent requirements for today's business demands and develop employees for future needs. - IBM Kenexa Predictive Retention
Predict and improve workforce retention with analytics and employee feedback surveys.
All products - Talent and workforce management
Assessments
Products
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IBM Kenexa Behavioral Assessments
- for Executive Roles on Cloud
- for Hourly Roles on Cloud
- for Professional and Managerial Roles on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Interview Builder on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Prove It! on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Rated Behavioral Assessments for Managerial and Leadership Roles on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Skills Assessments on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Skills Manager on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Talent Frameworks
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IBM workforce science and consulting solutions - Overview
- IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Hourly Roles
- IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Professional and Managerial Roles
- IBM Kenexa Workforce Readiness
Compensation and rewards
Products
- IBM Kenexa CompAnalyst Enterprise on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa CompAnalyst Executive on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa CompAnalyst Job Description Builder on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa CompAnalyst Market Data for US on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa IPAS on Cloud
Employee engagement
Products
- IBM Employee Experience Suite
- IBM Kenexa Survey Advantage on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Survey Enterprise
- IBM Kenexa Survey Enterprise 360 on Cloud
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IBM workforce science and consulting solutions - Overview
- IBM Kenexa Predictive Retention
Learning solutions
Products
- IBM Kenexa Hot Lava Mobile on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa LCMS on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud
- IBM Social Learning
Onboarding
Products
- IBM Kenexa Onboard on Cloud
Sourcing and recruitment
Products
- IBM Kenexa BrassRing Candidate Relationship Manager
- IBM Kenexa BrassRing on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa BrassRing RapidHire
- IBM Kenexa Organizational Cultural Insight Survey
Workforce performance management
Products
- IBM Kenexa Talent Manager on Cloud
- IBM Kenexa Talent Suite
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IBM Kenexa Talent Suite family
- IBM Kenexa Talent Insights
When it comes to recruiting high-quality candidates, IBM® has the services you need to tailor a robust recruitment solution for your company—from sourcing strategies to technology and tailored implementation to geography, culture and scope.
The solution toolbox includes full recruitment process outsourcing; project-based recruitment to recruit and source in a short timeframe; sourcing science that uses technology and sourcing techniques to explore multiple sourcing channels; and employment branding to connect with candidates through research, branding and marketing expertise.
Where other companies may focus on just one area of your sourcing and recruitment needs, IBM has the expertise to see the big picture and provide the appropriate solution to help drive success.
Featured services
- IBM Kenexa Recruitment Process Outsourcing
- IBM Kenexa Project-Based Recruitment Solutions (ZoomRecruit)
- IBM Kenexa Employment Branding
- IBM Kenexa Sourcing Science
The Smarter Workforce Institute features a multidisciplinary team of expert psychologists and researchers. With offices in London, England and Minneapolis, US, the Institute oversees rigorous, global and innovative research and development programs, spanning all aspects of human capital management.
The Smarter Workforce Institute focuses on:
- Insight—supplying research, commentary and analysis about the global workforce to companies, academic publications and popular press. The world-renown WorkTrends survey began in 1984 and is now taken annually by more than 33,000 employees in 28 countries.
- Innovation—working with colleagues throughout the business to offer the innovation needed to create new products that use the latest workforce insights and human capital science to drive high performance.
- Inspiration—providing white papers, reports, books, academic papers and practitioner articles to inspire business leaders, customers and partner organizations with a scientific understanding that is applicable, timely and focused on high performance.
The team of psychologists and researchers are experts in many areas including employee engagement; motivation and commitment; employee leadership; customer focus and innovation; and leadership issues including women in leadership, gender diversity, the role of critical job assignments in employee development and more.