Build, Buy or Rent? Leveraging Talent Analytics to Plan for Tomorrow’s Workforce

Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012 1:00pm CT

Do you know the skills and types of workers you need for tomorrow? How do you decide if you should hire a contract worker, transition a baby boomer to part time or hire a new employee? Join Stacia Garr, senior analyst with Bersin & Associates, for her discussion of the tools organizations can use to more effectively identify talent needs, how organizations use that information to develop a strategy to fill talent gaps and the benefits and drawbacks of different talent sources necessary to execute that strategy.

After attending this session, listeners will understand the value of workforce analytics in mapping talent needs to organizational strategy and objectives and specific approaches to doing this effectively. You will know the risks and rewards of build, buy and lease talent strategies and have examples of how to do each effectively.

Speaker(s)

Stacia Sherman Garr
Senior Analyst, Talent Management
Bersin & Associates

Stacia Sherman Garr is a senior analyst, talent management, at Bersin & Associates. Prior to joining Bersin & Associates, she worked as a senior analyst for the Corporate Executive Board, serving as both a research analyst and an instructional designer. She has also served as an adjunct history professor at Northern Virginia Community College.

Garr holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and bachelor’s degrees in history and political science from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. She is currently studying for an MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Garr is author of Bersin & Associates’ “High-Impact Performance Management” industry study series.