95. How Novartis is Building a Skills Operating System for Workforce Planning (Interview with René Gessenich)

This week’s podcast guest is René Gessenich, Head of Strategic Workforce Planning at Novartis, who shares the work that he’s been doing to build a skills operating system for workforce planning at Novartis.


In this episode, René and I discuss:

  • Why having a robust skills ontology is so important
  • How to incorporate internal and external skills data, in a single skills ontology
  • Novartis's approach to skills-based workforce planning with some examples of their targeted approach
  • Specific advice for organisations looking to adopt a skills-based approach to workforce planning


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