Community Forum – Have you conducted a global talent assessment? 

A: Have you conducted a global talent assessment? 

Please find below the responses to this week’s IRI Community Forum Survey. Thank you to those who took the time to add their input! 

We are looking to conduct an assessment of where our technical and engineering expertise is located globally. Please take a moment to share your experience to help us uncover best practices, common pitfalls, and emerging risks tied to technical capability and geographic footprint. 

Responses are below.

Community Responses

What prompted the decision to do (or not do) that mapping exercise?

• Part of a regular (every 2-3 years) competency assessment process
• It is part of our capability assessment done every year.
• Talent and succession planning

Was the outcome of the exercise worth the effort?

• Yes
• Yes – it ties into many strategic decisions made by our business
• Yes

What advice would you give to another company considering doing this kind of global engineering technical skills mapping?

• Aligning upfront on how you assign people to different groups – e.g. SME vs advanced vs. intermediate vs beginner; is someone an SME by default if there isn’t anybody else in that role?) needs to be done well going into this exercise
• Have standard work created for it, so that everyone knows when they need to do what. Have someone who owns the process.