Objectively assess the current skills and capabilities of your workforce to identify gaps
客觀地評估員工目前的技能和能力，找出差距

Once your organization understands the roles that will be most critical to winning, as well as the skills and capabilities required to be a star in these roles, it is important to examine the current skills and capabilities of your workforce. How many employees are capable of being stars in the business-critical roles of tomorrow? Does your company have a sufficient supply of star talent to win? The best companies audit the current skills and capabilities of their workforces carefully in order to identify any gaps they may face.
一旦你的組織了解了對成功最關(guān)鍵的角色，以及在這些角色中成為明星所需的技能和能力，重要的是審視你當(dāng)前的技能和能力。有多少員工能夠成為明日商業(yè)關(guān)鍵角色的明星？貴公司是否有足夠的明星人才來贏得比賽？最好的公司會認(rèn)真審核他們的勞動力技能和能力以確定他們可能面臨的任何差距。

General Electric has been particularly forward-thinking regarding the new skills it will need to be successful over the long term. The company’s embrace of the industrial Internet has greatly affected many of its core businesses. Sensors on locomotive and jet engines, for example, generate data that can be used to predict the degradation of parts — saving GE customers billions on maintenance and lost operating hours. Harnessing this data requires new skills and capabilities. In 2012, when Jeff Immelt first introduced GE’s push into the industrial Internet, the company had 50,000 engineers in its workforce — mostly aeronautical, electrical, and other traditional engineers. The company had very few software engineers. Yet software engineering skills are key to GE’s future. By recognizing this critical gap early, GE has been able to develop strategies to close it systematically, over time.
通用電器公司（以下簡稱GE）特別關(guān)注它需要長期成功的新技能。該公司對工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的接納極大地影響了許多核心業(yè)務(wù)。例如，在機(jī)車和噴氣發(fā)動機(jī)上的傳感器產(chǎn)生的數(shù)據(jù)可以用來預(yù)測零部件的退化，從而節(jié)省了GE用戶數(shù)十億美元的維修和運(yùn)營時間。利用這些數(shù)據(jù)需要新的技能和能力。在2012年，當(dāng)Jeff Immelt第一次把GE公司引入工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)時，該公司有5000名工程師，其中大部分是航空、電氣、和其他傳統(tǒng)工程師。公司有很少的軟件工程師。然而，軟件工程技能是GE未來的關(guān)鍵。通過及早認(rèn)識到這個關(guān)鍵差距，GE公司已經(jīng)能夠制定戰(zhàn)略并系統(tǒng)地關(guān)閉它。

Develop and acquire the talent you need to close any gaps, starting today
從今天開始，彌補(bǔ)差距以開發(fā)和獲得你要的人才

A client recently remarked: “Assembling a talented workforce is very much like making scotch—unless you cellar something today, it will be very hard to have something worth drinking seven years from now.” The best companies work hard to match their hiring and talent development strategies with their future workforce needs.
一個客戶最近說，“組建一個優(yōu)秀員工隊伍就像在做威士忌，除非你今天就把這些東西放入酒窖，不然七年后很難有什么東西值得品嘗?！币涣鞯墓九ε浜纤麄児蛡騿T工未來的發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略和人才需求。

At Ford Motor Company, building world-class software engineering capabilities has become a strategic imperative. Car manufacturers are facing new competitive threats from the likes of Google, Uber, Tesla and dozens of start-ups. And a new ecosystem of finance, insurance, energy, infotainment and maintenance services has emerged based on the data-driven, app economy. In response, Ford established an entirely new business unit—Ford Smart Mobility—where most of the company’s software engineers reside.
在福特汽車公司，建設(shè)世界級軟件工程的能力已成為一種勢在必行的戰(zhàn)略。汽車制造商正面臨來自谷歌、優(yōu)步、特斯拉以及許多初創(chuàng)企業(yè)的競爭威脅?；跀?shù)據(jù)驅(qū)動、應(yīng)用程序經(jīng)濟(jì)的金融、保險、能源、信息娛樂和維護(hù)服務(wù)等新的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)應(yīng)運(yùn)而生。作為回應(yīng)，福特成立了一個全新的業(yè)務(wù)單元——福特智能移動，公司大部分軟件工程師都居住在這里。

Building world-class software is not a core competence for most automakers. Accordingly, Ford Smart Mobility has partnered with Microsoft and Pivotal (a Dell Technologies portfolio company) to bring new digital skills to the company. And Ford has located its Smart Mobility unit in Palo Alto, California—just minutes away from Stanford University—in order to have better access to software engineering talent. These steps (and others) are all part of the company’s plan to “quickly add new state-of-the-art software engineering capabilities across the Ford enterprise.”
建立世界級的軟件并不是汽車制造商的核心競爭力。因此，福特智能移動已經(jīng)與微軟和Pivotal（戴爾技術(shù)投資公司）合作，為公司帶來新的數(shù)字技能。福特的智能移動單位坐落在加利福尼亞的帕洛阿爾托，離斯坦福大學(xué)只有幾分鐘的路程，為了更好地獲得軟件工程人才。這些步驟（以及其他）都是公司計劃“在福特企業(yè)中快速添加最先進(jìn)的軟件工程能力”的一部分。

Difference-making talent is a company’s scarcest resource. Innovative new technologies are changing the nature of work, as well as the skills and capabilities required to win in the future. Given the time it takes to attract and develop star talent, it is critical that companies start building the workforce they will need. There is no better time to start than today.
差異化人才是公司最寶貴的資源。創(chuàng)新的新技術(shù)正在改變工作的性質(zhì)，以及未來取得成功所需的技能和能力?？紤]到吸引和發(fā)展明星人才所需的時間，企業(yè)開始建立他們所需的勞動力是非常關(guān)鍵的。沒有比今天更好的開始時間了。
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