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 importantHow to incorporate internal and external skills data, in a single skills ontologyNovartis's approach to skills-based workforce planning with some examples of their targeted approachSpecific advice for organisations looking to adopt a skills-based approach to workforce planning Support for this podcast comes from Medallia. You can learn more by visiting https://www.medallia.com/employee-experience/. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.