RSS feedsIBM has unveiled a series of consulting services aimed at helping businesses prepare for the retirement and potential loss of staff who hold highly-valued skills and knowledge.
The company said that as the baby-boom generation reaches traditional retirement age, the services would provide companies with diagnostic tools based on advanced analytics, strategies and methodologies.
It said that this would help organisations to 'understand their employee base, retain employees and transform business processes to cope with demographic changes and skill shifts'.
Mary Sue Rogers, global leader in IBM's business consulting services human capital management group, said that the aging population would be 'one of the major social and business issues of the 21st century', and that companies worldwide were starting to examine what this meant in terms of skills, knowledge, and growth.
'The scale of this age-driven change will alter the way work and knowledge are managed within companies moving forward. Many companies are taking this opportunity to evaluate their workforce skills globally, rethink internal knowledge management, optimise people-based processes, and examine a more globally integrated business model', she added.
