People and Change

CEOs believe that the shortage of key skills is one of the biggest threats to growth, together with the risk of an economic slowdown and over regulation. Significantly, the people dimension is the only one of these three issues that companies can control. Traditionally, organisations focus on technology, finance, legal and operations issues. The people strategies, which are often the most complex dimension, are often ignored. Over the next decade, getting the best from people at every level when there is constant change will be a company’s/public sector organisation’s key sustainable competitive advantage.

Key Challenges

  • Managing turbulence
    How can you ensure that you have the right people in the right roles doing the right thing? How can you re-calibrate talent priorities based on changing business conditions?
  • Demographic shifts
    How will you address the loss of knowledge and skills through attrition? How will you manage today’s employees who have different employer expectations?
  • Talent management
    How will you measure the impact of talent on business objectives? How will you attract and retain pivotal talent necessary for competitive advantage?
  • Organisational design
    How do you design the organisation to support the strategy?
  • HR performance
    How can you improve HR, reduce costs and transform the function into a high performing business with measurable results?
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
    How do you ensure rapid integration, cultural change and full benefits realisation?
  • Change management
    How can you accelerate the pace of change and make change stick?

How PwC can help you?

The People and Change suite of offerings enables our clients to align people with strategy to increase confidence of direction and outcomes, accelerate results and sustain the enhanced benefits of change. PwC People and Change works with clients from the technical issues that are owned by HR, through the organisational issues that shape the strategy and structure of HR to CEO sponsored initiatives to maximise the effectiveness of the organisation as a whole.

We assist in addressing the following:
  1. Learning solutions
    • The design and development of corporate universities
    • Design, development and delivery of capacity building and training interventions
    • Measurement and evaluation of return on investment
  2. Talent management
    • Linking people strategies to business strategies
    • Designing flexible, nimble and agile organisations
    • Attract, acquire, develop and retain the best talent
  3. Making change stick
    • Transformational change
    • Leadership, team and organisation alignment
    • Culture and climate alignment and analysis
    • Operational excellence
    • Leading for change and change resilience programmes

Business Need - Business Strategy - People Strategy - Business Impact