By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP HR can facilitate it. Finance can model it. Talent Acquisition can provide market intelligence. But if the business owns the strategy, it must also own the workforce required to deliver it. Ask who owns workforce planning inside a large organisation and you are likely to receive several different answers. HR will almost certainly be mentioned, as will Finance and business operations. Depending on the organisation, the COO, Strategy, Talent

By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP Talent pipelining is one of those ideas that sounds almost impossible to challenge. Identify strong candidates before vacancies arise, build relationships over time and create a ready pool of talent that can be approached when the business needs to hire. Conceptually, it makes perfect sense. In practice, however, most organisations are not structured, resourced or incentivised to deliver it properly. That distinction matters, because poorl