Human Capital is the fundamental source of competitive advantage

Creating sustainable economic value today demands careful Human Capital Management: in an economy characterized by cheap financial capital, it is the key lever to use to make new ideas materialize.
In this context, two sets of strategic questions need to be addressed:

• What do we expect from Human Capital Management?
  • Value creation target: What do we expect from increased efficiency of HR functions and improved Talent Management?
  • Operational excellence: Do we have the best talent and teams to execute on our strategy?
  • Efficiency: Should we engage in digitization and automation of our activities and how far?
  • Growth and innovation: What new roles and activities will create additional value?
• Is HR equipped to reach its objectives?
  • Is HR positioned and equipped to design and drive a strategy to reach these goals?
  • Is our Talent System focused (on key populations) and optimized?
  • Have we re-engineered our HRBP role (strategic and operational)?
  • Do we have and know how to operate adapted HR IT? Do we have an HR analytics approach?
  • Are new organizational approaches needed (agile, community, open organization, …) and are we ready to deploy them?

Supporting HR Officers in designing & deploying HR strategies

We leverage strategy design capabilities and wide HR knowledge to support the HR strategy design process as well as the implementation of this strategy. Our approach includes:

• Market and best practice research and benchmark, including leading-edge HR and digital technology
• Strategy design workshops
• Problem-solving approaches and organizational design approaches
• HR Leadership strategic retreat design and facilitation

Some examples of our work

• Engagement strategy for a European Airforce
• Human Capital Metrics research for a European Strategy Association
• Future of Organization strategic workshops for several European players (energy and engineering)
• Strategic Retreat for the Country managers of a leading multinational software company, focusing on the Impact of Digital Technologies on the Workplace