Accenture Talent Planning and Management Solution

Acquiring and retaining talent has become a C-level agenda item for consumer goods and services companies for a variety of reasons. Few industries depend as much on talent to drive customer loyalty and, in turn, growth. And today’s sluggish global economy has opened possibilities for luring talent from other industries and geographies into the consumer goods fold. That’s the upside of the downturn. The downside: With financial strain impacting many companies, it is imperative for existing employees to contribute to the highest levels of performance possible.

The new generation of professionals hold new attitudes and behaviors about work itself. Motivating, rewarding and teaching this new breed require dramatic changes to traditional approaches while still balancing the reward and incentives for seasoned professionals who may not share similar attitudes.

Winning consumer goods and services companies will be those that not only successfully recruit valuable resources, but also multiply the power of their existing resources to gain a competitive edge.

Our solution takes a strategic, incisive approach to honing talent—identifying critical roles and shaping them accordingly. We combine traditional techniques with leading-edge approaches to create a workforce that contributes directly to high performance. The Accenture Talent Planning and Management Solution addresses market trends—including generational shifts, globalization and demographic changes—that are altering the workplace.

Our approach takes a strategic, incisive approach to honing talent—identifying critical roles and shaping them accordingly. We combine traditional techniques with leading-edge approaches to create a workforce that contributes directly to high performance.

We developed the Accenture Talent Planning and Management Solution to help consumer goods and services companies boost their performance across key workforce areas. Our processes and approaches specifically address workforce planning, talent resourcing, performance management and rewards, learning and collaboration and culture alignment.

Our solution takes a strategic, incisive approach to honing talent—identifying critical roles and shaping them accordingly. We combine traditional techniques with leading-edge approaches to create a workforce that contributes directly to high performance. The Accenture Talent Planning and Management Solution addresses market trends—including generational shifts, globalization and demographic changes—that are altering the workplace. 

The Accenture Talent Planning and Management Solution was created to help consumer goods and services companies move towards achieving high performance in areas including performance and rewards as well as learning.

Strategic performance and rewards

• Strategic role assessment—Accenture’s approach represents a powerful synergy of strategic job evaluation methodology to assign each role a “size” and “value” and overlays this with individual performance criteria. Through this approach, roles within the organization can first be segmented into three categories: mission-critical, core and necessary. Then, payroll spending can be redistributed to areas of greatest impact, dramatically increasing return on investment.
  
  
• The Global Total Rewards Audit—As companies become increasingly global, inefficient or expensive rewards practices can be hidden or overlooked in the course of rapid expansion. Accenture helps consumer goods and services companies quickly identify where best practices exist and share them quickly across the organization.
  
  
• Incentive programs—Good incentive programs help companies to do more business with the same resources and at no additional cost. Incentive compensation offers a way to encourage the right kinds of behaviors and culture. Accenture uses forward-looking incentive modeling tools that allow employees to modify behaviors aligned with organizational objectives.

Extending traditional learning and collaboration

• Accenture academies—Accenture has developed robust learning academies across critical workforces. By leveraging and integrating leading university, industry and Accenture capability across these vital functions, Accenture has created a unique approach to competency-based learning. These academies (available for sales and marketing; supply chain; and overall leadership) bring together a variety of learning approaches and content to help companies increase the competency and capability of their workforces. The academy framework, combined with robust talent assessment tools, provides companies the strategic and cost-effective means to multiply talent globally.
  
  
• Collaboration tools—Accenture leverages state-of-the-art methodology, we call it Learning 2.0, which extends traditional training to include the levers of on-the-job learning, collaboration and knowledge management to significantly boost employee performance.
  
  
• End-to-end talent assessment tools—We work with consumer goods and services companies, using packaged competency models tied to learning and development tools, and measure progress to track competency development on an ongoing basis.