by Rainer Strack, Jean-Michel Caye, Carsten von der Linden, Pieter Haen, and Filippo Abramo
Syngenta, a large global Swiss chemical company that manufactures seeds and pesticides, launched a plan to increase its sales from $14 billion in 2012 to $25 billion in 2020. Achieving that growth would require an increase in staff, and Syngenta needed to accurately forecast the future demand and supply of employees, especially for key roles. It turned to strategic workforce planning.
The approach entails not only identifying the gaps in future demand and supply but also defining initiatives that can close those gaps. To start, the company ran two pilot tests on units with particularly rare job profiles. For these pilot areas, Syngenta analyzed both supply and demand for key positions, and then it performed a gap analysis by comparing the two. The model focused on more than merely adding employees in a linear relationship to sales. In fact, Syngenta held brainstorming sessions to challenge the forecast workforce demand and to determine whether there were other means of achieving the planned increase in sales. To generate new ideas, business units were asked to respond to hypothetical scenarios—for example, what they would need to do to hit the goals with no increase in staff size.
This innovative approach inspired open discussions and led to new ideas on how forecast capacity requirements could be reduced. Ultimately, in both pilot units, leaders identified specific measures with the potential impact of reducing employee demand growth by more than 50 percent. In this way, the people strategy challenged and ultimately changed the business strategy.
In order to spread this impact across all business units on a long-term basis and for all business units, Syngenta’s leadership decided to install a global strategic-workforce-planning team. The team’s objectives: to continually monitor future employee demand and supply, provide a means to challenge business strategy, and inspire discussions on how to do things differently.
There can be no growth without abolishing huge regulation, huge taxation, and huge political corruption. Basil Venitis, venitis@gmail.com, http://themostsearched.blogspot.com, @Venitis
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