Creating the Strategy for Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Talent

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Florida Talent Supply Chain TeamBackground and OpportunitiesHigher Education Coordinating Council Briefing – March 11, 2011

Chris Hart IV – President, Workforce Florida, Inc.Mary B. Lazor – Director of Contracts, Workforce Florida, Inc.Don Upton – President, Fairfield Index. Inc.Kevin Lloyd – Project Manager, Global Talent and Leadership Programs, Fairfield Index, Inc.

World Class Education

Focus on Job Growth and Retention

Alignment with Governor Scott’s 7-7-7 Plan

Reduce Government Spending

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WFI Strategic Plan Framework

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• Convene the nation’s first Talent Supply Chain Team to anticipate employer needs of the future

• Leverage leading Supply & Demand analyses in Florida and the US focused on target industry clusters• Looking for inefficiencies and gaps

• Listen to the “Voice of the Customer” (businesses) about their talent needs

• Balance talent Supply & Demand systems• World class data analysis is already underway

• Launch STEMflorida – A 21st Century workforce demands it!• Present right indicators to global decision makers

Focus on Job Growth and Retention

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Relevant Workforce Florida Projects Serving as Talent Supply Chain Team Resources

A Business Supply Chain is…

A Supply Chain is a network of entities involved in the production and sale of a product.

ORA Supply Chain is the total sequence of business processes, within a single or multiple enterprise environments, that enable customer demand for a product or service to be satisfied.

Source: The Logistics Bureau

Source: Knowledge Dynamics

A Talent Supply Chain is…

A Talent Supply Chain is a network of learning resources involved in the education and growth of an existing or future employee.

ORA Talent Supply Chain is the total sequence of learning processes, within a single or multiple educational environments, that enable business demand for an existing or future employee to be satisfied.

Florida’s Talent Supply Chain is a system of resourcesand infrastructure that prepare people on a life long basisto advance the needs of enterprises of all scales, sizes and sectors. Like other Supply Chains, excellence is achieved

through customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, reliability, foresight and seamless coordination and process improvement

among and between all participants in the chain. In Florida, people are the participant-owners in the chain,

by exerting their transformative abilities to learn, apply knowledge and create wealth.

Florida’s Talent Supply Chain is a system of resourcesand infrastructure that prepare people on a life long basisto advance the needs of enterprises of all scales, sizes and sectors. Like other Supply Chains, excellence is achieved

through customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, reliability, foresight and seamless coordination and process improvement

among and between all participants in the chain. In Florida, people are the participant-owners in the chain,

by exerting their transformative abilities to learn, apply knowledge and create wealth.

Source: Creating the Strategy for Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Talent

Fluid, Dynamic System of Lifelong Learning and Contribution!

Consider a Successful Talent Supply Chain

• Florida is developing the right talent for the right industries at the right time

• Florida students know where to go to get the skills they need for the careers they choose

• Florida is allocating resources to programs supported by the economy• The Florida talent supply chain is flexible and able to adjust to

changing industry demands and economic climate• Florida education resources are being used to capacity

A seamless, user-friendly, outcome-oriented flow of learning making optimal use of all Florida educational systems, programs, and resources influenced by the voice of business, industry and education.

Florida Talent Supply Chain Strategy

Attracting new business to Floridaand expanding existing enterprises

Strategic Emphasis (A,B,C,D,E) Complementary Engagements

AA Supply and Demand AnalysisSupply and Demand Analysis

Elevating the STEM-aptitude of students at all levels within the Florida education delivery

Balancing talent supply and demand to meet the needs of a new Florida economy

Creating a repository of all programs and talent development options available to citizens of Florida

Developing measures and/or benchmarks to assess the quality and year-to-year improvement

Formative Talent Supply Chain Team

• Executive Office of the Governor• Members of Industry Cluster Task

Forces• Regional Workforce Boards• US Department of Labor• Florida School Districts• Department of Military Affairs

Team Members Key Stakeholders• Agency for Workforce Innovation-Pre-K• Chancellor of Florida State College

System/Florida State Colleges• Commission for Independent Education• Florida Chamber Foundation/Florida

Chamber of Commerce• Florida Council of 100• Florida Department of

Education/Commissioner of Education• Independent Colleges & Universities of

Florida• Office of the Chancellor of Higher

Education/State University System• Workforce Florida

The Talent Supply Chain Team in Action

TSCT Form and Charter Analysis of Existing FL Talent Delivery System

Integrate with TICTFs, STEMFlorida and S&D Analysis

Define Metrics, Measures & Benchmarks

Vision FL Talent Supply Chain of future

Fluid, Interactive,

Dynamic System of Lifelong Learning

Support Formation of TSCTProvide Supply Chain Science & Discipline to TSCT

Coordinate and Communicate with Other WFI Initiatives

Support Development of Leaning Benchmarks and

Metrics

Develop Reporting Mechanism and Feedback Loops

Florida Talent Supply Chain Team Activities

Workforce Florida, Inc. and Fairfield Index, Inc. Support by Providing:Outreach, Coordination, Meeting Moderation, Outcomes, Reporting and Research

How can the Council help?

• Partner – be engaged and involved with the process as it unfolds

• Vision – your view of the future will help to shape the outcome of this effort, share it

• Information – you can help to eliminate barriers and get to the data needed

• Voice – from time to time the Talent Supply Chain Team may need an authoritative voice

Next Steps for Talent Supply Chain Team

• Outreach to formative Talent Supply ChainTeam members

• Build agendas and solidify meeting schedule• Develop communication and collaboration approach• Begin research into private sector supply chain

methodology and process improvement

This will not be a slow burning fuse! An aggressive plan of action is in place to develop a “national first” Talent Supply Chain Transformation.