Structure Your Talent Organization
to Meet Core Business Needs
In an effort to operate with greater agility, improve responsiveness to customers, and utilize human resources more effectively, many organizations continue to evaluate the effectiveness of their current operating model. Futurestep helps companies tackle fundamental questions relating to management structures, spans of control, centralization, or any of the priorities that contribute to competitive advantage. Key areas of focus include:
Strategy Alignment
Most organizations embark on a process to define a long-term plan that generates a series of organizational goals and objectives. Forward-thinking organizations take the time necessary to align their talent management operations with these goals and objectives. Aligning talent operations with business needs can have a profound impact on execution and results, and it represents a tangible demonstration of the increasingly strategic role HR executives play in the business. This requires competence in strategic thinking and the ability to determine the roles and skills that will deliver the most impact to the organization.
Competency Modeling
Competencies represent the language that unifies and codifies all talent management practices. The ability to determine roles and function-specific competencies can have a significant impact on the ability to execute on your talent management strategy. Organizations are revisiting long-established competency models with a renewed focus on aligning individual skills and competence with business strategy and execution.
Insource/Outsource Strategy
Organizations continue to evaluate the plausibility and feasibility of outsourcing as a defined strategy. While there are many benefits associated with outsourcing transactional activities, outsourcing non-transactional activities such as recruiting and staffing requires more thought and planning to ensure transparency to the end-user or candidate. The decision to outsource is typically based on multiple internal and external factors. Outsourcing by design rather than default can be part of an overall business strategy that delivers predictable investment returns.