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Agile Workforce Planning

How to Align People with Organizational Strategy for Improved Performance
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Agile Workforce Planning by Adam Gibson explores the integration of agile methodologies into workforce planning strategies. With a focus on adapting to changing business environments, the book provides insights on developing flexible and resilient workforce plans. This approach aims to enhance organisational responsiveness and optimise human resource allocation.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in modernising your approach to workforce management by adopting agile principles. It offers practical strategies to align your workforce planning with dynamic business needs, helping you drive efficiency and innovation in your organisation.

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Understand how to continuously organize people, skills and resources to meet changing business needs and forecast for future workforce supply and demand.

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As business priorities change and focus shifts to address arising issues, HR professionals need to be able to reorganise talent swiftly and plan for future needs to enable the business to succeed. It covers how to forecast organisational demand for people, resources, and skills, analyse the gap between supply and demand and, most importantly, how to fill this gap. This book explains how to use agile workforce planning to achieve this.

Agile Workforce Planning is a practical guide for HR and organisation development practitioners needing to align their staff, skills, and resources with evolving company goals. This book also covers how to identify the skills needed in the workforce, where these skills are already available, and when they're missing, how to decide whether to buy, borrow, or build them.

Agile Workforce Planning explains how to collect data to calculate and predict staff churn as well as how to use qualitative and quantitative demand modelling to forecast future needs and provides strategies to address these, including lateral internal recruitment. There is also expert guidance on horizon scanning, scenario planning, and how to secure stakeholder buy-in and engagement for an agile workforce plan.

Supported by case studies from companies including Apple, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, NATO, and the UK National Health Service, this is essential reading for HR and OD professionals needing to continuously align the talent and capabilities in their workforce with the overall business strategy.

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Agile Workforce Planning by Adam Gibson fills a vital void in workforce planning literature, providing a comprehensive guide for leaders and professionals to implement agile strategies effectively. Reviewers praise its engaging narrative enriched with case studies, personal stories, and real-life applications, which delivers both practical knowledge and theoretical insights. The book is regarded as indispensable for anyone aspiring to enhance or start their learning in workforce planning, drawing on economics, business, and risk to navigate the challenges of an unpredictable world.

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ISBN: 9781789666052

Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 157.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 550g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Adam Gibson is a global leader in workforce planning and a consultant in the professional services industry. He has held senior roles in workforce planning, workforce analytics and talent management in a number of prominent public and private sector organizations including PwC, the Metropolitan Police Service and Capita. He is also the Founder of Agile Workforce Planning Ltd and leads the Strategic Workforce Planning Faculty at the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).

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