Strategic workforce planning: unlocking future capabilities

Strategic workforce planning is an essential discipline that helps businesses map out what they need in terms of people and organization to deliver their strategy. Read this ebook to learn what strategic workforce planning really is, how it differs from operational workforce planning and why so many organizations struggle to make it work.

Being able to design and adapt new strategies in a fast-paced, agile way has become essential to business survival and strategic workforce planning is a critical part of this process. Understanding what’s needed in terms of people and organization is the bridge between business strategy and identifying future capabilities.

In this latest ebook from the Corporate Research Forum (CRF), new research reveals many businesses don’t yet have a clearly defined methodology for strategic workforce planning and explains the reasons why they struggle with this important process.

Download this ebook to learn:

• what strategic workforce planning is and why it matters
• the difference between strategic and operational workforce planning
• how to develop a practical and effective approach to strategic workforce planning
• how to overcome the barriers typically faced by HR teams

Strategic workforce planning is an opportunity for HR to have a stronger voice in business strategy discussions and to increase its influence with the organization.

Download the ebook ‘strategic workforce planning: unlocking future capabilities’ now to find out more.

To gather the findings in this ebook, CRF interviewed 30 practitioners, industry experts and academics across a range of sectors mainly in the UK and Europe. It also surveyed 89 HR Directors and workforce planning specialists Business Partners in February 2021.