This publication explores hot topics within strategic workforce planning research by providing actionable summaries of contemporary literature. The summaries in this issue discuss the following topics:

• How to choose workforce management software
• A detailed step-by-step guide to creating SWP plans
• Challenges faced by CHROs and recommendations for mitigating them
• Long-term SWP and the “aging chain model”
• Applying supply chain management principles to human capital
• Creating a “ladder of talent analytics”: human capital facts, analytical HR, human capital investment analysis, workforce forecasts, talent value model, talent supply chain
• Integrating contingent workforce performance management
• The financial analyst's perspective on human capital risk