From Slideware to Sign-off — The SWP Engine BU Leaders Actually Use
How a two-person team embedded A/B/C scenarios in BU and Finance decisions.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Track
Impact
Business leaders need clear choices with CFO-ready numbers. This session shows the SWP engine behind those choices: a data-driven minimum viable (workforce)planning process; a cadence that keeps the business agenda at the forefront; a business alignment where Finance and People Partners are on equal footing in terms of stakeholder hierarchies. You’ll see how a two-person team scales via a deputised network and team of teams collaboration.
This session will explore
- Lean SWP service model: Org Health → Scenarios → Business/Finance/People alignment → decision → track.
- Business and Finance handshake: workforce planning as a business strategy process
- Embedding at scale: deputised HR/Finance/Strategy network, templates, enablement and self-serve where safe.
- The impact of AI productivity bringing workforce planning into the Workforce, Technology, and Business strategic agenda.
Learning objectives
- Stand up a lean SWP service that scales through a deputised HR/Finance/Strategy network.
- Build A/B/C scenarios decision-makers grasp: build vs buy vs blend/shift, with net capacity and cost ranges.
- Run the Finance handshake with assumptions register, cost-range method, sign-off cadence and triggers.
- Light-weight mechanisms to review AI productivity and how that can help drive business organizational model changes
- Measure adoption and value: easy productivity measurements, time-to-decision, capacity added and cost avoided.
Alan Susi
VP, Global Head of Organizational Planning and Analytics · S&P Global
Why this is on the agenda
Labour budgets face scrutiny while AI shifts skill demand. Executives need capacity and cost options they can sign off — not slide decks. CFO alignment, audit-ready governance and cadence turn SWP into a business rhythm, yet many teams lack scale, roles and templates to operate effectively.