Simply exists so businesses and people can align on the right skills.
There’s a skills crisis.
As the global economy and industries change at pace, people and businesses are being left behind as they lack the right capabilities and skills. Getting left behind can be terminal: people lose their jobs and businesses fail. It’s a skill crisis.
Skills gaps are now a board-level, company-threatening issue
74% of CEOs are concerned about the availability of key skills (PwC) and two in ten CEO’s fear their global firms will be unviable in 10 years due to skill gaps (The Guardian). Every company is experiencing a skills crisis. As the global workforce shrinks, talent shortages are hitting a 17-year high (Manpower Group). In totality, over 1 billion workers will need to be reskilled by 2030. Skill gaps will continue to worsen. This is a fundamental issue that won’t go away. No employer is immune.
Skills gaps effect everyone
For your business: skills gaps mean not being able to serve your customers, compete in the market and deliver your strategy.
For your workforce: if you are not investing in the right skills to attract and retain top talent you risk being irrelevant as an employer.
For every employee: you need to know the skills you have and are investing in are relevant for the future.
Most companies have a blind spot
They have a knowledge gap: what is actually going on in the market? How are skills changing? What does this mean for us as a business?
They have a decision gap: What should we be doing differently? Which skills should we be focussing on? What are our most urgent priorities?
They have an implementation gap: How best might we close these skills gaps?
When should we build skills and or buy skills? How can we win in this ultra-competitive talent market?
These gap can be closed, but business and HR leaders find it complex. They need data, insight and tools to make sure they get the right skills.
There is a better way: Rightskilling
What do we mean by ‘rightskilling’?
Rightskilling is about ensuring you have the right skills. Specifically: making sure your business, your workforce and your employees have the right skills.
A bit about us
Simply Get Results – Simply for short – is an innovative People Analytics Software business, serving senior leaders in major organisations around the world. Our landmark SaaS product Simply provides insight and tools for HR and business leaders to rightskill their workforce and conquer skills gaps.
Simply was founded in 2016 by people analytics and workforce planning experts Simon Haines (CEO) and John Guy (COO). Victoria Hodson joined as Chair as the business grew. Our team are pioneers and innovators in people analytics with over two decades experience, who are dedicated to providing a competitive advantage to our clients. As a trusted provider to major organisations across all industries, we deliver to the most stringent quality and security standards and operate to the highest ethical principles.
Our leadership team
Simon Haines
Chief Executive Officer
Simon is a pioneer in the field of People Analytics with over 25 years’ experience across technology, consulting and human capital. He has spent his career delivering innovation and change through consultancy and technology to corporate leaders across industries around the world. Prior to founding Simply, Simon conceived, founded and led Deloitte’s People Analytics business in the UK and led their Workforce Planning business worldwide. Simon is a regular speaker and guest lecturer, and passionate about the potential for insight and technology to benefit businesses, workers and society as a whole.
John Guy
Chief Operating Officer
John is an expert in workforce planning. As COO and Product Director, he collaborates with business leaders, partners and customers to bring innovative, novel solutions to business and workforce challenges. He draws on practical in-house and consultancy experience, including planning the make-up of the 1.2m people employed by the UK National Health Service, working out how to deliver London’s £11bn transport capital investment programme and several high-profile organisation transformations in Europe while leading workforce planning for Deloitte in the UK.
Our partners
Simply Get Results are proud to work with world leading professional services data partners.
Join the team.
Use your skills.
Make an impact.
At Simply we are always looking for super people to join the team. If you want to help solve the global skills crisis, love delighting customers and want to bring your whole self to work, then we want to hear from you. Drop us a line at info@simplygetresults.com or contact one of the team directly.
From customer success and sales through to data science and software engineering, there’s always opportunities for you to get involved in a fast-growing business. We need your fresh perspective to cut through complexity in HR and build simple, user-friendly solutions for our customers.
As you might expect, we emphasise skills. And we practise what we preach, supporting a range of different work-styles, working patterns and embracing remote work. So, if you are at the start of your career, looking for a change, working part-time from the beach, or wanting to come out of retirement for ‘one last job’, give us a call. Of course, we are an equal opportunities employer.
