Strategic Workforce Planning Across National Borders (Part 1)
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As companies stretch, contract, or shift their global footprint, human capital should be a prime consideration. Too often, however, business leaders automatically assume that the talent will be there whenever and wherever they need it. Strategic workforce planning (SWP) helps business leaders see the talent-related risks and opportunities that could impact their ability to execute business strategy. SWP can alert them to what is known or, just as important, not known about local human capital issues. It’s a structured process that challenges assumptions about the talent supply, employment environment and staffing options so that leaders aren’t blindsided by unanticipated challenges that hurt performance results.
Moderated by Dr. Mary Young, who leads The Conference Board’s research on strategic workforce planning, this webcast will explore how HR executives and strategists, corporate planners, and SWP leaders can contribute to developing and pressure-testing their company’s location strategy.
Audience: Chief HR Officers, HR strategists, executives responsible for human capital analytics and/or strategic workforce planning operating executives.
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Mary B. Young
Principal Researcher, Human Capital The Conference Board Mary B. Young is principal researcher in human capital at The Conference Board. ... Full Bio |
Strategic Workforce Planning Across National Borders (Part 1)
PART 1: Using Local Labor Data to Make Offshore Location Decisions
04 April, 2012 | (01 hr)
Data is the lifeblood of human capital analytics and strategic workforce planning. Yet when companies consider locating to an unfamiliar country or region, many struggle to find reliable and up-to-date data about the local labor supply. Veteran strategic workforce planning leaders share their triumphs and frustrations in researching offshore talent and providing business leaders with workforce intelligence to make better decisions.
Speakers
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Anke Schrader
Anke Schrader leads China Center research on Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and Human Capital. Her current research interests include corporate sustainability practices, measurement, and reporting, corporate citizenship and philanthro... Full Bio |
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Angela Sheffield
Angela Sheffield is a result-oriented Business and HR executive, with expertise in Strategic Workforce Planning, Product Management, Operations, and Finance. She is recognized for successes in c... Full Bio |
Strategic Workforce Planning Across National Borders (Part 2)
PART 2: Looking Before You Leap: Why HR Needs to Participate in Offshore Location Decisions
12 April, 2012 | (01 hr)
When companies make location decisions, they need to weigh a multitude of criteria. Human capital should be at the top of this list, although its importance is often underestimated. “People are the single most important factor,” argues one site-selection expert.
In this session, you will learn:
- why people factors can make or break a company’s strategy for optimizing its global footprint;
- why lower labor costs, alone, should not be the deciding factor;
- assessing the trade-offs between hot spots and off-the-beaten-track locations;
- the role of qualitative as well as quantitative data; and
- how HR and strategic workforce planning can contribute to better footprint optimization.
Speakers
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Elias van Herwaarden
Elias van Herwaarden heads up Deloitte’s Global Location & Facility Services and is the EMEA Service Leader for Deloitte’s site selection efforts. Elias has over 20 years of experience in Location Consulting and assisted over 470 c... Full Bio |
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Daniel Stauthamer
Daniel Stauthamer has more than 10 years of international human resources experience in the engineering, procurement, and construction industries. As the Director of Human Resources Global Project Support at CH2M HILL, he is responsib... Full Bio |
