Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth 2nd Edition

Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth 2nd Edition book cover

Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth 2nd Edition

Author(s): Ross Sparkman (Author)

  • Publisher: Kogan Page
  • Publication Date: April 29, 2025
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 400 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1398607290
  • ISBN-13: 9781398607293

Book Description

Is your workforce strategy ready to meet future business demands?

Strategic Workforce Planning by Ross Sparkman is a comprehensive guide for senior HR leaders and executives who want to align people strategy with business goals and deliver sustainable competitive advantage.

Fully updated with new chapters on remote work strategies and operational workforce planning, this edition equips leaders with proven tools for navigating rapid change, managing AI and automation impacts and ensuring the organization has the skills and capacity it needs. Drawing on fresh real-world examples and global best practice, it provides a governance-led approach to building workforce agility.

You’ll discover how to:
– Forecast future hiring demand and address critical skills gaps
– Prioritize investments in training and development for maximum ROI
– Manage workforce transformation in response to AI, automation and market shifts
– Integrate workforce planning with Diversity and Inclusion objectives

With strategic models, actionable frameworks and real-world insights, Strategic Workforce Planning enables senior decision-makers to design and deliver workforce strategies that meet today’s priorities and prepare for tomorrow’s challenges.

Themes include: workforce strategy, governance, AI impact, skills development, diversity and inclusion

Editorial Reviews

Review

“As the pace of business change intensifies, effective strategic workforce planning can be the difference between business success and business failure. Ross Sparkman is one of the leading authorities in the world on strategic workforce planning and this book is full of practical and stimulating advice. As such I expect Strategic Workforce Planning to become an indispensable compendium for HR and business leaders alike to help steer their ability to thrive in the digital economy.” ― David Green, Executive Director, Insight222

Ross Sparkman has distilled the complex field of strategic workforce planning (SWP) into its essential steps, using practical frameworks and exercises that accelerate the readers’ understanding of SWP. This is a must-read for both new and experienced SWP practitioners.” ― Peter Louch, CEO, Vemo

“This book is THE definitive guide to strategic workforce planning. Brilliantly written by one of the most prominent global thought leaders in workforce planning, this is a must read for both HR and business professionals as well as anyone interested in finding out more about the practical application and science behind workforce planning and analytics.” ― Stavros Demetriou, National Service Line Leader at a major global consulting firm

About the Author

Ross Sparkman is the Head of Strategic Workforce Planning at Nike. Previously, he was the Head of Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics at LinkedIn and GE Aviation, the Strategic Workforce Planning Leader at Devon Energy and a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting where he specialized in Human Capital Strategy and Workforce Planning & Analytics. He is based in San Francisco, California.

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