m07 Dynamic Models for Strategic Human-Resource Management
... for planning and managing staff development and HR challenges
Developing the people we need for sustained, long-term success is one of the toughest strategic challenges. Not just getting the right numbers, of course, but the right skills and experience too. And all this while the needs of the business are constantly changing!
Why is it so tough? Because the time-periods involved are so long. Because important decisions interact - on hiring, promotion, transfer, training ... Because we have to look after intangible factors too. And of course, because those people we seek to manage have their own wishes and behaviours.
This short course shows how dynamic models can help grapple with those complexities.
What is this mini-course about?
Split into bite-size lessons, this 1-hour mini-course:
... explains where staffing connects with the wider business system
... demonstrates models that play out how staff numbers change with interacting choices on hiring, promotion and other issues
... shows how skills-transitions can be planned and managed, and how intangible factors and team capabilities work.
Who is this course for?
Senior leaders – who want to better understand their organisation's staffing challenges, and so improve their planning and management of staff development.
Analysts and consultants – who want to support leaders' needs with powerful models that play out often-complex changes to staff numbers and characteristics.
Course Curriculum
Kim Warren
Kim is an experienced strategy professional, teacher and publisher of online courses and teaching resources on business modeling – fast becoming a main-stream capability for executives, consultants and business students. He also offers resources to help model non-business challenges, notably in health-care and international aid.
After senior corporate strategy roles, Kim joined London Business School, to teach on MBA and Executive programs. To overcome serious limitations with standard strategy methods, he developed the powerful strategy dynamics modelling method for designing and managing strategy for any organisation or challenge. Once a specialist skill, building these simulations is now easier, faster and more reliable than spreadsheet modeling. Such models mimic real-world behaviour and performance of businesses and other organisations with uncanny realism.
Kim is author of the prize-winning Competitive Strategy Dynamics (Wiley, 2002), a major strategy textbook Strategic Management Dynamics (Wiley, 2008), and summary e-book now widely used in MBA and executive teaching – Strategy Dynamics Essentials (Kindle, 2011). He is also co-founder of Strategy Dynamics Ltd, which publishes "serious games" and online courses exploiting the user-friendly modelling application, Silico.
