Building the Future-Ready Workforce

Learn how to use People insights and analysis to build the momentum for change and establish the sponsorship for a new approach to strategic workforce planning. See how to develop the 4B methodology (Buy, Build, Borrow, Bot) and place skills at the heart of the process. Find out how a skills-based approach to Strategic Workforce Planning was deployed at scale across the Nestlé group to ensure a fully integrated talent planning cycle.

One of the findings from the recent Insights222 People Analytics Trends 2023 survey was that, in 31% of companies, People Analytics is playing an instrumental role in helping anticipate "skills for the future". 

However, there are many questions about how organisations are progressing strategic workforce planning to encompass a skills-based approach and requests to explore companies that have made significant inroads on this journey.

During this presentation, Michael will discuss how the Nestlé People Analytics team designed and implemented a new approach to skills-based strategic workforce planning. He will share the journey to date, the challenges they have encountered, and the successes achieved for the company.

• Using insights and analysis to build the momentum for change and establish the sponsorship for a new approach to strategic workforce planning
• Developing the 4B methodology – Buy, Build, Borrow, and Bot 
• Placing skills at the heart of the process
• Scaling Strategic Workforce Planning across the Nestlé group to ensure a fully integrated talent planning cycle.

• How to gain the sponsorship and support from business leaders
• How to pivot to a skills based approach to SWP
• Re-designing your approach to SWP to deliver value to the business
• How to Think big but start small.