Workforce Planning Across the Great Divide: Redefining the Professional Boundaries of HR

John Boudreau and Ian Ziskin

THE FUTURE WILL REQUIRE that Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) define its questions at multiple levels, that it draw on disciplines well beyond its traditional expertise, and that it be prepared to accept that the HR profession may or may not be the primary leader in these significant issues. It may instead be the orchestra conductor charged with bringing together world-class capabilities to create a more integrated and harmonious set of solutions.

HR’s reason for being is to make people and organizations more effective. This will not change in the future, but HR must work faster, with less bureaucracy and more business relevance. ...

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