Agile Workforce Planning

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.