---
id: "prereq-strategic-workforce-planning"
type: "prerequisite"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Is a Change-Management Initiative"]
tags: ["workforce-planning", "forecasting"]
related: ["concept-skill-taxonomy"]
reason: "Required to determine which skills the company will actually need in the future before designing reskilling programs."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Strategic Workforce Planning

**Prerequisite.** Organizations must possess a rigorous **strategic workforce-planning methodology** — such as **Allianz's economic scenario planning** — to accurately translate forecasted business growth into future talent and skill demands.

**Why it's required.** Without this, reskilling efforts lack a strategic target: you cannot build a meaningful [[concept-skill-taxonomy|skill taxonomy]] of *future demand* or define [[concept-destination-roles|destination roles]] without first forecasting which skills the company will actually need. It is the upstream input to task one of [[framework-reskilling-change-management]].