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How Novartis is Building a Skills Operating System for Workforce Planning (René Gessenich, Novartis)
Season 19 · Episode 95

How Novartis is Building a Skills Operating System for Workforce Planning (René Gessenich, Novartis)

Digital HR Leaders with David Green · Stefan Kesic

February 8, 202242m 12s

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Show Notes

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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