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Overview
Business strategies are changing faster than many workforce plans. AI is redesigning tasks and workflows, scarce capability remains difficult to secure, cost pressure is intensifying and many organisations still lack a reliable view of the skills and capabilities they already have. The result is a harder set of decisions about future workforce demand, capability gaps, internal supply, workforce capacity and cost.
Traditional headcount planning is no longer enough. Nor is collecting skills data without connecting it to business decisions. An organisation can have the right number of employees and still have the wrong capabilities, the wrong productive capacity, the wrong workforce mix or a cost structure that cannot support the strategy.
The Workforce Planning & Skills Intelligence Exchange 2027 moves beyond conventional headcount forecasting and generic skills discussion to examine how organisations can translate business strategy into workforce and skills demand, understand current capability, identify material gaps and make better sourcing, reskilling, redeployment, automation and workforce-cost decisions. The programme follows a practical decision
journey from strategy to demand, skills intelligence, scenarios, intervention choices and a Finance-ready workforce case.
Designed for leaders responsible for workforce planning, skills intelligence and future capability, the Exchange combines corporate cases, practical frameworks, facilitated exercises and workforce decision labs so that delegates can take methods back into their organisations rather than simply leave with trend insights.
Key issues to be discussed include:
Event Highlights
Delegates will explore how to:
• translate business strategy into quantified future workforce and skills demand rather than extrapolating historic headcount;
• decide which work should remain human-led, where AI should augment people and what can realistically be automated;
• use skills intelligence to identify current capability, mission-critical gaps, scarcity and concentration risks before they become operational problems;
• build alternative workforce scenarios around growth, AI productivity, attrition, scarcity, sourcing and cost;
• choose whether capability gaps should be built, bought, borrowed, filled through redeployment or automated;
• compare reskilling, redeployment and recruitment using future demand, skills adjacency, speed, cost and risk;
• connect workforce capacity, productivity and cost to financial outcomes;
• build a workforce case that Finance and executive leadership can interrogate.
Who Should Attend?
Who Should Attend?
The Exchange is particularly relevant to:
Heads and Directors of Strategic Workforce Planning, Workforce Planning, Skills Intelligence, Workforce Strategy, People Strategy, Talent Management, People Analytics, Organisation Design, Organisation Effectiveness, Capability Development, Learning & Development, HR Strategy, Workforce Transformation and senior HR Business Partners.
The programme will also be valuable to HR Directors and Chief Human Resources Officers, together with selected Finance/FP&A, Strategy, Transformation, Operations