What if your most critical business decisions could be backed by real-time data about your team’s actual capabilities, not just job titles and org charts? In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, traditional workforce planning methods are no longer sufficient. Organizations need sophisticated approaches to understand not just who they employ, but what skills those employees […]
Most companies still pay for titles. Most employees, meanwhile, create value through skills. The distance between those two realities is where pay dissatisfaction, stalled mobility, and avoidable attrition tend to live. A cleaner approach is to price the capabilities a role actually uses and connect those capabilities to clear routes into the next job. In […]
In 2026, workforce planning will no longer be an HR back-office exercise. It has shifted into a board-level governance issue, with directors and investors scrutinizing how organizations manage human capital. Why? Because workforce readiness is increasingly recognized as a material governance and risk factor: poor planning can stall transformation, weaken competitiveness, and even impact investor […]
Every September, labor markets traditionally shift gears. Budgets reopen, projects restart after the summer lull, and leadership teams often push for a hiring sprint before year-end. But in 2025, the story looks very different. Instead of a broad-based “hiring surge,” organizations across Western economies are navigating economic volatility, budget caution, and AI-driven disruption. Headcount freezes, […]