You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. I have written extensively on strategic workforce planning (SWP) over the years, including a book chapter in the SIOP Professional Practice Series, an article in People + Strategy, and numerous resources I’ve created and published on my website. One example is …
You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 363 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Over the past few years, I have tracked organizational layoffs and job cuts through my layoff tracker, largely to monitor shifts in the labor and job market. One observation I have made over the past several months is an increase in …
You can also access this resource and many others in Issue 361 of my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Strategic workforce planning (SWP) is consistently ranked as a top priority by HR leaders. Yet it has one of the largest gaps between ranked importance and organizational capability. One costly result of ineffective SWP is a familiar …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. One objective of workforce planning is ensuring that an organization has the workforce capacity to execute its critical goals and priorities. While acquiring more people (e.g., employees, contractors, etc.) is one way to increase workforce capacity, another way is to unlock …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Most of the current AI-and-jobs conversation, including my own recent coverage, has centered on entry-level role impact and the risk of failing to develop the next generation of leaders. But there are also impacts at the other end of the career …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. A few weeks ago, I shared OpenAI’s AI Jobs Transition Framework for the US, a 32-page report which offered a way to classify jobs by how AI is likely to affect them, sorting occupations into those likely to be automated, likely …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Entry-level roles have long served as a foundation for building the institutional knowledge, judgment, and tacit skills that underpin long-term organizational capability. But as AI reshapes how work is performed, early-career workers are feeling the effects directly. This new report indicates …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. An important factor in workforce planning is analyzing demographic data, including aging workforce trends and retirement projections, to understand how demographic shifts may affect the supply of available talent. These data can surface risks that are easy to overlook until they …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As organizations assess AI’s impact on jobs and work, many rely on AI exposure rankings, or the percentage of job tasks AI has the technical capability to perform, as the primary lens for assessing job disruption risk. But this new 32-page …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Much has been written about AI’s impact on the workforce, but a new article from BCG turns the lens specifically on corporate functions (finance, HR, legal, compliance, procurement, and technology). It contrasts where most corporate functions operate today (siloed departments, manual …
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