Strategic Workforce Planning Publications

2013

1. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013)
   

   May 2013 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of strategic workforce planning.

2. Globalization Revisited: Who Will Get the New Wave of Knowledge Process Jobs?
   

   April 2013 | Executive Action Report

   Offshoring is no longer the best or the only answer for management of knowledge process jobs, and many companies are investigating nearshore and onshore alternatives as the global competition for knowledge jobs intensifies.

3. Managing the Total Workforce: Bringing Contingent Labor inside the Strategic Workforce Planning Tent
   

   April 2013 | Research Report

   Few companies have a robust method for determining the right mix of employees and contingent workers. Creating a total workforce management framework gives companies a holistic understanding of how they use talent and helps them evaluate future options.

4. Looking before You Leap: SWP and Offshoring Location Decisions
   

   April 2013 | KnowlEdge Series Summaries

   HR executives and strategists can contribute to their company’s location strategy.

5. Riding the Reform Innovation Wave: Implications for Health Care Organizations and Their CHROs
   

   March 2013 | Executive Action Report

   As the health care sector undergoes enormous transformational change in all aspects of operations, chief human resources officers must embrace the change and communicate it to their workforce, as they make up more than half the sector's expenditures.

6. Going Public on HR Data Privacy: Implications for Human Capital Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning
   

   February 2013 | Executive Action Report

   Many HR organizations are skittish about collecting certain types of employee data, especially when they plan to integrate it across national borders.

7. Five Years of Strategic Workforce Planning Research: What Have We Learned?
   

   January 2013 | Research Report

   This report synthesizes what we learn by carefully reviewing five years of research on SWP: what it is, who is doing it, obstacles, and outcomes. Most companies that have begun implementing SWP still have a long way to go, according to the surveys.

8. Will Your People Be Ready? Top executives reveal how they are addressing today's meteoric pace of change.
   

   January 2013 | The Conference Board Review

   Two dozen top executives discuss how they're managing their people to deal with the increasing rate of change.

2012

1. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 2, No. 4, 2012)
   

   December 2012 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of strategic workforce planning.

2. State of Human Capital 2012: False Summit
   

   October 2012 | Research Report

   This report is the result of a joint research effort by The Conference Board and McKinsey & Company to highlight the most significant challenges facing human capital executives.

3. Let Your People Go
   

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Our thinking about employee retention is too often simplistic and narrow.

4. Men Not at Work: Q&A with Hanna Rosin
   

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   The modern economy is better suited to women, says Hanna Rosin, and men have so far been unable or unwilling to adjust.

5. Who Needs Long Division?
   

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   How to adapt today’s education system to tomorrow’s digital workplace. An excerpt from Marc Prensky's book "Brain Gain."

6. Talent Management Tomorrow: Seeing Around the Corner to Meet Strategic Business Needs
   

   September 2012 | Council Perspectives

   This report, the work of eight councils of The Conference Board worldwide in the area of talent management, assesses the current state of the function and then “peeks around the corner” to see what challenges lie ahead.

7. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012)
   

   September 2012 | Human Capital in Review

   This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of strategic workforce planning.

8. CEO Challenge Reflections: Human Capital Practitioners Respond
   

   September 2012 | Executive Action Report

   This report compares the responses of human capital professionals to the human capital strategies cited by 370 CEOs that ranked human capital as one of their top three challenges in The Conference Board CEO Challenge 2012.

9. Board Asia Newsletter
   

   September 2012 | Periodical

   Quarter Three 2012

10. Strategic Workforce Planning across National Borders
    

    July 2012 | Research Report

    Strategic workforce planning can play a valuable role by questioning the unexamined assumptions that business leaders may be making about the availability, quality, cost, and mobility of talent in critical locations.

11. Board Asia Newsletter
    

    July 2012 | Periodical

    Quarter Two 2012

12. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012)
    

    June 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in strategic workforce planning.

13. China’s 12th Five-Year Plan – Implications for Human Capital
    

    April 2012 | China Center Publications

    China’s 12th Five Year Plan emphasizes the “human factor” in economic development more than any previous FYP. This China Center report distills out the plan’s implications for human capital practitioners and executives concerned about HC issues in China.

14. Where Do SWP Leaders Come From?
    

    February 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Conversations with strategic workforce planning (SWP) executives net insights about the skills and competencies needed to work in this field and the variety of paths that lead to careers as SWP leaders.

15. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012)
    

    February 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in strategic workforce planning.

2011

1. On the Level: Strategic Workforce Planning from Micro to Macro
   

   December 2011 | Executive Action Report

   Strategic workforce planning (SWP) can be deployed at an enterprise level to ensure that a company has the right people in place to execute business strategy. It can also be deployed at more micro or macro levels, depending on a company’s needs.

2. Strategic Workforce Planning Leader's Bookshelf
   

   November 2011 | Research Report

   This report briefly describes more than 40 books and articles, and includes brief summaries and information on the topics covered including their level of complexity.

3. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011)
   

   October 2011 | Human Capital in Review

   The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in strategic workforce planning.

4. Who Wants to Be a Manager?
   

   October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

   Why we promote the wrong people and then complain when they fail.

5. Broadening the Base for Strategic Workforce Planning: The Value of Cross-Functional Partnerships
   

   August 2011 | Executive Action Report

   What differentiates leaders who’ve made steady headway with their SWP programs? Often, it’s their ability to partner with other functions and, by doing so, to broaden the base of support for SWP.

6. Engaging Business Leaders in Strategic Workforce Planning: A Guide to Effective Conversations
   

   July 2011 | Executive Action Report

   This guide includes basic questions to drive the initial conversation between the strategic workforce planning (SWP) leader and business leaders.

7. Managing Human Capital Risk
   

   July 2011 | Research Report

   This report presents the results of a survey of 161 companies on the state of their human capital risk assessment and management in answer to five key questions.

8. Sleepless in Delhi: What Keeps Indian HR Executives Awake at Night?
   

   June 2011 | Executive Action Report

   India presents unique business challenges, challenges that a number of human resource executives in India were happy to discuss with The Conference Board.

9. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 3 Q1, 2011)
   

   April 2011 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

   The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

10. In Sickness and in Health: Do companies care about their employees' well-being?
    

    April 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    Employers design wellness initiatives to enhance organizational performance and lower costs. Worker well-being is a side effect.

11. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q4, 2010)
    

    February 2011 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

12. Taking Offshoring to the Next Level: The 2009 Offshoring Research Network Corporate Client Survey Report
    

    January 2011 | Research Report

    This report provides an overview of how the practices associated with various forms of outside sourcing have changed over time. For example, it offers evidence of how companies that offshore innovation practices are no longer driven by cost cutting, but b

2010

1. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q3, 2010)
   

   November 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

   The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

2. Treating Contingent Workers as a Strategic Resource
   

   September 2010 | Executive Action Report

   While the use of temporary help of all kinds has increased, many companies do not have a centralized framework to make the most cost-efficient and strategic use of this new workforce.

3. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q2, 2010)
   

   August 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

   The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

4. Financial Services Offshoring: Moving Toward Fewer Captives and Global Cost Competitiveness
   

   March 2010 | Executive Action Report

   Financial services companies show greater interest than other sectors in contracting with large international providers and becoming more cost competitive by moving operations to lower labor cost locations

5. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
   

   January 2010 | Research Report

   This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP.

6. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
   

   January 2010 | Key Findings

   This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP.

7. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q1, 2010)
   

   January 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

   The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

2009

1. Clearing Paths for Critical Foreign Talent to Work in the United States
   

   December 2009 | Executive Action Report

   The future growth of many smaller businesses may depend upon recruiting highly skilled foreign workers for key jobs. That means becoming better acquainted with the complexities of the immigration code.

2. Impact of Workforce Reductions on Layoff “Survivors”
   

   November 2009 | Executive Action Report

   This Executive Action features data on how layoffs were conducted, what support is being offered to employees who are leaving and who are staying, and some write-in comments on how respondents’ roles and companies are changing.

3. Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration
   

   October 2009 | Research Report

   The publication pursues cultural and organizational issues that may limit this collaboration, human resources' potential leadership role, and ways of introducing metrics into the equation.

4. Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce
   

   August 2009 | Key Findings

   This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.

5. Relieving Pressures to Eliminate Jobs
   

   July 2009 | Executive Action Report

   Smaller companies are finding ways to "redeploy" employees rather than lay them off. Three models for surviving recessions without losing your investment in human capital.

6. Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning
   

   June 2009 | Research Report

   This report highlights the implementation process for Strategic Workforce Planning---from simply connecting business strategy and HR strategy to becoming an input to business strategy that informs executive decision making.

7. Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning
   

   June 2009 | Key Findings

   This report highlights the implementation process for Strategic Workforce Planning---from simply connecting business strategy and HR strategy to becoming an input to business strategy that informs executive decision making.

8. Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite
   

   June 2009 | Key Findings

   This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.

9. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 1 Q3-4, 2009)
   

   June 2009 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

   The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

10. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 1 Q2, 2009)
    

    May 2009 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

2008

1. Can They Take It? What Happens When Older Employees Work Overtime
   

   November 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Overtime is a key to profitability for many employers, and a boost to the paychecks of their employees. But is there a concomitant cost when, as is often the case, senior employees work extra hours?

2. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies
   

   September 2008 | Council Perspectives

   Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

3. Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace
   

   July 2008 | Research Report

   This report/guide discusses the dynamics of knowledge transfer and explains how to apply any of 15 methods for facilitating the flow of information and insight from those who have it to those who need it.

4. Women's Leadership: Revitalizing Women’s Initiatives
   

   July 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Key indicators of gender in the workplace suggest that women's advancement in corporate America has plateaued or even slipped over the past few years. Still, many companies remain committed to initiatives designed to support women in the workplace.

5. HR Challenge: Staffing Up to Expand Overseas
   

   April 2008 | Executive Action Report

   You don't have to be a huge company to establish a presence in foreign markets. You do need to develop global leaders and learn how to recruit local talent.

2007

1. Gray Skies, Silver Linings: How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce
   

   December 2007 | Research Report

   Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.

2006

1. Strategic Workforce Planning
   Forecasting Human Capital Needs to Execute Business Strategy
   

   August 2006 | Research Report

   This report is the culmination of presentations by workforce planning thought leaders and best practice organizations, a literature review, and company interviews of 20 companies, from which nine were chosen for detailed case studies.