From the course: Human Resources: Strategic Workforce Planning

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How does SWP deliver value?

How does SWP deliver value?

From the course: Human Resources: Strategic Workforce Planning

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How does SWP deliver value?

- Suppose that three years ago, you started an internet based company and your new company was born global. In the sense that almost immediately, you began receiving orders from around the globe. To fill those orders, you had to open fulfillment centers, and hire people to operate them all over the world. To do that, you needed engineers, managers and people to staff the centers. You needed legal, marketing, and operations management expertise, and of course, you needed HR to deal with all of this. Does this sound far fetched? Think again, on the first day that Amazon.com went global, it received orders from dozens of countries. It was a happy, but unexpected response and Amazon had to quickly begin doing Strategic Workforce Planning in order to serve clients effectively. Now, you may not be Amazon, you may not have been born global. But in one form or another, every company has to deal with SWP issues like these. Let me show you four ways Strategic Workforce Planning delivers value…

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