Bold leaders create a future workforce that constantly adapts and reforms to the world as it changes. The key to workforce agility lies in a strategy that puts people first, enabled by technology. With an eye on business outcomes, leaders will develop talent strategies that help liberate human potential to shape an agile workforce—one able to confidently face the changes ahead.

1. SHAPING THE
AGILEWORKFORCE
TECHNOLOGY VISION 2017

2. Shared economies.
Technology advances.
Changing demographics.
What made a company successful a
decade, a year, or even a week ago,
will not make it successful tomorrow.
Only agile businesses succeed
in a changing world. And an agile
business requires an agile workforce.
FORD MOTOR
COMPANY
WOULD NOT
EXIST TODAY
WERE IT STILL
MAKING THE
MODEL T…
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3. Henry Ford understood that
success required a people-first
strategy.
The assembly line was a marvelous
innovation, but Ford’s strategy
covered more than just the way work
was done. He began offering a daily
wage nearly double the norm, and
reduced the workday to eight hours.
Ultimately, he reduced employee
turnover and created an entire
market for himself.
…NOR WAS
THE ASSEMBLY LINE
HENRY FORD’S
GREATEST
INNOVATION
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4. WORKFORCE AGILITY PUTS
PEOPLE FIRST, ENABLED BY TECHNOLOGY
TO AMPLIFY WORKERS EVERYWHERE
BUILD A
WORKFORCE
SHAPED BY
INSIGHTS
EXPAND THE
CONCEPT OF A
WORKFORCE
PREPARE
EXISTING
WORKERS FOR
THE DIGITAL
FUTURE
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BUILD A
WORKFORCE
SHAPED BY
INSIGHTS PREDICTIVE INTELLIGENCE,
POWERFUL INSIGHTS
C-suite executives need to be able to predict
their future workforce needs today.
Technology plays a key role.
There is no “finish line” or “small scale pilot”
for predictive workforce intelligence. But
done correctly and scaled across the
organization, predictive intelligence is the
first step to creating a workforce that can
shape itself to a changing world.

6. EXPAND THE
CONCEPT OF
A WORKFORCE
EXPANDED WORKFORCE,
UNLIMITED POSSIBILITY
As predictive intelligence helps companies
chart their future workforce, boundary-less
access to talent and new models of
employment help them source it.
The “one role, one worker” approach gives
way to more fluid and task-based ways of
approaching work. The term “employee”
will encompass a broad spectrum spanning
internal to external, human to machine,
and short-term gigs to full-time work.
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7. PREPARE EXISTING
WORKERS FOR
THE DIGITAL
FUTURE RESKILLING FOR SUSTAINABLE
OUTCOMES
Reskilling will help a company best utilize
its existing workers to sustain desired
business outcomes in a digital world.
More needs to be done in most
organizations to create breakthrough
advantage with existing workers.
Organizations need to consider new ways
to engage, mobilize, reskill and energize
the extended, multi-generational
workforce.
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8. Deployed intelligently, automation can lift the entire
business, and workforce, to unprecedented heights
AMAZON is among the most prolific companies in
their robotics efforts. Despite a sharp increase in the
number of robots used in 2016, the company has kept
the same rate of hiring new employees, increasing
employment by 50% with plans to add an additional
100,000 new employees as well.
AUTOMATION AS A
CATALYST FOR A NEW
SOCIAL CONTRACT
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Source: https://singularityhub.com/2017/02/10/how-robots-
helped-create-100000-jobs-at-amazon/

9. Leaders can change the face
of business while putting their
people first.
• Leverage predictive intelligence as
the foundation for workforce planning
• Expand talent sourcing strategies to
find the right skills at the right time
• Reskill your existing workforce for
better outcomes are key to the agility
organizations desire.
And as Mr. Ford has proven, a people-
focused strategy can produce huge wins,
not just for an individual company but for
the world at large.
WHAT DOES
IT TAKE TO
BE TODAY’S
HENRY FORD?
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10. A WISE MAN
ADAPTS HIMSELF
TO CIRCUMSTANCES,
AS WATER SHAPES
ITSELF TO THE VESSEL
THAT CONTAINS IT.
Chinese proverb
SHAPING THE
AGILE WORKFORCE
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