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People strategy

A clear, measurable and executable people strategy is quickly becoming a key differentiator in this fast-paced digital age, and strong leadership is essential to drive that. 
 

We help you make the connection between your business strategy and the people activities and leadership capabilities needed to deliver it — ensuring agility to account for business needs now and in the future.
 

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Rethink and realign people strategies to adapt to the digital age and enable talent innovation
• Talent and skills challenges resulting from new ways of working
• Unlock productivity in front and back office functions and maximize discretionary effort
• Enable senior leadership to achieve maximum impact and team performance
• Support leadership capabilities development and pipeline of talent

Contact us to discuss your unique goals and challenges.

Organizational culture

It’s often said that “culture eats strategy for lunch”. By harnessing the power of organizational culture you can make your business strategy, operating model and cultures more coherent to maximize business effectiveness.

We help you evolve your culture by linking and syncing your organizational set up, the capabilities and goals that generate value, and the way things are done in your business.

Explore and benefit from the organizational culture experience of our leading Katzenbach Center at strategyand.pwc.com/katzenbach-center

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Organizational culture is undermining business performance (e.g. risk and compliance)
• Need to shift behaviours as a result of new operating model, capabilities or technology
• Enable a major transformation with the right cultural energy
• Promote new ways of working to adapt to external shifts – in customer expectations, regulation, etc.
• Find your new culture after a merge of two firms

Contact us to discuss your objectives and unique challenges.

Workforce Capability

With up to 85% of costs tied up in people, organizations need to be better placed to predict strategic and operational requirements and allocate resources accordingly.
 

We help you realize and discover the potential of a diverse workforce through planning, acquisition and engagement strategies to better address immediate and emerging business challenges.

Read about PwC’s diversity and inclusion journey at pwc.com/ca/inclusion

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Attract, retain, develop and engage a diverse workforce
• Support business growth in new and existing markets with the right talent and capabilities
• Proactively fill talent gaps
• Effectively restructure workforce in response to mergers, divestitures and on-going organizational changes

Contact us to discuss your unique workforce goals and challenges.

HR function and technology

Cost pressures and a need for increased business effectiveness in today’s competitive environment are demanding that HR functions deliver more strategic value. 

We help you improve organization effectiveness through aligning HR to business and people strategies, and boosting the efficiency of your HR function and employee experience through the HR cloud.

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Poor HR project management requiring to rethink activities in HR operating models
• Lack of clarity on the alignment of business objectives,  HR priorities and HR compliance
• Pressure to reduce HR costs and optimising functional capability for cloud based systems usage
• Design, implementation and improvement of HR Shared Service Centres and HR outsourcing
• More effective use of talent with improved adoption of systems and better use of data

Learn about PwC’s technology platforms alliances by visiting pwc.com/ca/technology

Contact us to discuss your unique HR transformation goals and challenges.

When an organization struggles to execute on a strategy, all too often the first reaction is to redraw the organization chart. This is costly and often ineffective. Rather than tinker with just structure and incentives, organizations need to look at the inner workings of the company to pull more effective levers.
 

We help you design your organization and the setup of your people in a way that fits your purpose and addresses all factors affecting how well you can execute on your strategy. 

Our services include:

• Organizational diagnosis
• Operational governance
• Structure and team design
• Organization cost effectiveness
• Back office function effectiveness

Contact us to discuss your goals and unique challenges.

Organizational change management and communications

The business environment is changing rapidly and is having a dramatic impact on how workforces respond and adapt to achieve success. With the right change management interventions and processes organizations can achieve their vision and stay agile in a disrupted world.
 

We help you make change stick and get the best from people in the process to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Employees needing to understand and/or adopt new strategy, processes or technology
• Disconnect between leadership and the rest of the organization on reasons or benefits of a transformation.
• Need for a cultural or behavioural shift to make a project successful
• Lack of resources or capability to deliver a change program

Contact us to discuss your goals and unique challenges.

In order to drive HR value at each stage of your transaction—being an acquisition, divestiture, or capital event such as an IPO, it’s essential to consider a number of HR specific elements during the due diligence, pre-close and post-close phases.
 

We help you enhance your deal and generate more value from HR supporting your efforts throughout your transaction cycle to help you get the right people and your management focused on the right things. 
 

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Optimal focus on talent and the cultural impact of the transaction
• HR function capacity issues resulting from a deal
• Set up a Human Capital (HC) team with specific accountability to achieve metrics for transaction success.

Contact us to discuss your goals and unique challenges.

People analytics and insights

The power of data-led insight is transforming how organizations across all industries can make better informed decisions about harnessing the power of their people.

We help your organization to efficiently analyze data to provide superior and relevant insights; we do so by using sophisticated analytics techniques that draw on applications, data scientists, statisticians and psychologists combined with cutting edge technologies.

Issues and challenges we can help you with include:

• Lack of internal people analytics capabilities to coordinate disparate HR systems to create a sustainable model
• Inability to create meaningful metrics and insights without manually intensive process
• Attrition rates are too high/low - and you don't understand the underlying reasons or how to proactively retain high performers
• Unable to demonstrate progress against Diversity agenda
• Lack of understanding of how to effectively deploy a people budget 

Read about our data and analytics services at pwc.com/ca/analytics

Contact us to discuss your goals and unique challenges.