Our Mission

Our mission is to develop analytics, tools and techniques for enabling more effective talent management and driving novel solutions for IBM and our clients.

At IBM Research, a team of 25+ researchers has been formed and dedicated to workforce management research.

We are an active participant in the internal IBM workforce transformation initiatives, and have worked with a number of IBM businesses to deliver novel analytics, tools and tangible business impact.

We pride ourselves with pioneering research in the area and a number of unique solutions.

We are highly interdisciplinary in our approach -- our expertise includes statistical analysis & forecasting, predictive modeling, stochastic analysis, optimization, queuing theory, signal analysis/processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, social networking, system development, database management & integration, SOA. We use the diversity of our backgrounds to drive innovative out-of-the-box solutions.

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