Agile talent
Subtitle: how to source and manage outside experts
By: Jon Younger, Norm Smallwood
Contributors: Smallwood, W. Norman, author
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781625277633
Subjects: Consultants; Management; Personnel management; Human capital; Contracting out
Description: "Campbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology. Companies are gaining advantage through a new capability--strategic use of external experts--made possible by technology and the globalization of talent. Leaders everywhere recognize that 'lean,' 'agile,' and 'fast' strategies require new ways to access and leverage--without owning--key talent to fill critical gaps. As managers seek nontraditional sources of strategic talent and experiment with fast, flexible ways of engaging these experts, they need a new roadmap. This book delivers that roadmap. It tells you how to assess, choose, attract, develop, support, and retain your external talent. Authored by thought leaders and bestselling authors in leadership and talent management who teach and consult globally, Agile Talent reveals how companies such as Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Google, IBM, and Bain Capital organize and manage new forms of talent in innovative ways. Supported by survey data and packed with tools and templates for applying these ideas, this book is the ultimate guide for winning the next war for talent."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Achieving competitive advantage through agile talent : trends, opportunities, and challenges; title: Defining the opportunity : assessing how agile talent benefits your organization; title: Refining the strategy : choosing the right approach to agile talent; title: Attracting and welcoming agile talent : orienting external talent to your organization; title: Ensuring professional excellence : growing talent that you don't even own; title: Engaging and collaborating with your talent : supporting your teams of internals and externals; title: Leading agile talent : understanding the skills you need and how to apply them; title: Leading the change : driving innovation in how your organization manages talent; title: Turning what we know into what we do : making agile talent work.