Featuring John Winsor and Jin H. Paik. Winsor is an executive-in-residence at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and chair of Open Assembly. Paik is a research scientist at Harvard Business School and cofounder and managing partner of Altruistic.
Complimentary HBR Webinar
Wednesday, October 18, 12 pm ET
The biggest headache that global businesses confront today—not to mention the most expensive—is figuring out how to secure talent. To address this problem, many managers are quietly circumventing their organizations’ standard hiring processes and are turning to digital talent platforms to find skilled help on an as-needed basis. The problem is, most of the managers making this move are doing it privately, simply as a tactical expedient for solving discrete problems or getting through a crunch.
But there is a better way. To remain competitive, companies will need to start developing an open talent strategy—a fundamentally new approach to hiring that involves thinking of all talent as part of a global network that organizations, not just individuals, can rely on to meet their needs.
In this live, interactive HBR webinar, John Winsor and Jin Paik discussed the idea of an open talent strategy and shared insights on:
- A massive workforce reset triggered by the pandemic that allows talented workers everywhere to freelance or start small businesses.
- How companies can adapt by shifting to a more “distributed” idea of the organization that revolves around talent (people) and projects, not divisions and offices.
- A new model of a networked organization where talent is culled from inside and outside the organization, as needed, via a globe ecosystem.
