Future-Ready Talent (Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success) - 9781398628052

Build a future-ready workforce that delivers business impact today and long-term resilience tomorrow.

Future-Ready Talent is a strategic guide for senior HR leaders, executives and business partners who must align talent pipelines with shifting organizational priorities. Written by experts from the world-renowned IMD Business School, it combines psychology, neuroscience, technology and academic research into a practical, evidence-based framework for securing the talent your business needs.

With a clear focus on the demands of a rapidly changing world of work, this book shows why traditional HR approaches to talent development are no longer sufficient and how leaders can adapt to build sustainable, future-proof capability. You'll discover how to:
- Redefine expertise, skills and knowledge in an AI-enhanced workplace
- Apply advanced talent assessment and psychometrics for smarter decisions
- Build diverse and inclusive talent pools that strengthen innovation
- Balance buy-versus-build strategies to accelerate capability development
- Manage succession planning across a multigenerational workforce

Packed with global real-world examples, tools and actionable models, Future-Ready Talent gives you the insight and confidence to design a workforce strategy that strengthens leadership pipelines, drives organizational performance and secures competitive advantage.

Themes include: talent strategy, succession planning, workforce diversity, future skills, HR leadership, organizational resilience.