ABOUT THE BOOK
THE TALENT ADVANTAGE: Developing Your Workforce to Drive Innovation and Business Results
Discover how making talent a core part of your organizational strategy can improve business performance and boost results.
Innovation is not driven by processes alone — it’s fueled by people. Organizations that unlock and nurture the innovation talent within their workforce gain a lasting advantage. Innovation talent is not an innate gift reserved for a few; it is a set of competencies that can be developed in everyone, at every level.
Packed with scientific insights, practical guidance and actionable advice, The Talent Advantage is an essential guide to building your organization’s innovation talent. It shows why mobilizing purpose, people, and proficiency is critical to fostering innovation competencies across the workforce. Covering learning methods, competency development, engagement strategies, and the role of new technologies, this book is vital reading for leaders and managers seeking to drive innovation and business performance.
The book includes science-backed tools, templates, and real-world lived examples from organizations such as AirFrance-KLM, Aliaxis, Baloise Insurance, Barco, Baxter, Bio-Techne, Grünenthal, GSK, Merck, Michelin, Nefab, Nokia, SABIC, SKF, Takeda. It demonstrates how to build innovation talent in practice. It also explores why combining formal, social and experiential learning is crucial to develop innovation competencies, and how to integrate AI into talent development initiatives.
This book is essential reading for mid- and senior-level HR professionals, innovation and commercial
leaders, line managers, and anyone responsible for talent management.
EXPLORE THE JOURNEY
This book explores a variety of questions that will change how you see talent development:
- What is talent?
- Why should talent be at the core of any organization?
- How to build talent?
- How to craft a ‘Why’ that mobilizes people?
- What makes talent tick?
- How to enhance your talent with AI?
- What is proficiency as a concept?
- What tools and templates can I use to boost talent?
- How can I design a winning talent development program?
- And many other inspiring and actionable topics