SECTION 2

Current Practices

Rob Tripp

IT HAS BEEN SAID that if you line up thirty workforce planners, you will get thirty different definitions of the term! You will see some of that in the following chapters by several leading practitioners of the art and science of Strategic Workforce Planning. But at its core, SWP is about workforce demand, workforce supply, understanding the gaps, and taking actions to address those gaps—all embedded in the business, economic, demographic, cultural, technological, and political context of our increasingly complex world. So just to add to the list of definitions, here’s mine (SWP definition number 31):

Strategic Workforce Planning is a disciplined business process that ensures that current decisions and actions ...

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