Insights
Notes from the practice
Frameworks, findings, and plain talk on workforce planning — written by the consultants who do the work and the scientists who build the tools.
Framework
The build-vs-buy workforce model, explained
Why most 'hard-to-fill' roles are re-skilling gaps in disguise, and how to price the three options against each other.
ReadPractice noteCritical roles are a risk problem, not a headcount problem
Treat key roles like the exposures they are: score them, insure them, and review them on a cadence.
ReadMethodologyFive questions that separate a workforce plan from a headcount forecast
The fastest way to tell whether a plan will change a decision or just fill a binder.
ReadResearch digestWhat 45,000 leadership assessments taught us about readiness
Patterns from a decade of assessment data — and what they mean for how organizations promote.
ReadTool guideHow to read a Workforce Strategy Diagnostic score
A plain-language walkthrough of the instrument, written for the leaders who receive it.
ReadOpinionYour operating model is a workforce plan with the people left out
Structure and people planning are the same exercise. Running them separately is how gaps appear.
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