1. The story by the numbers:
Don’t let your knowledge
Workforce shortage
by 2011 = walk out the door!
4.3 million
2009 workforce The Exit:
growth rate =
1%
Is your workforce aging?
Are your experts planning their exit?
Half life of an engineer’s
knowledge =
5 years
The Risk:
If they left today, are you ready?
Percent of Senior Management Do you know the potential impact?
retiring in next five years =
50%
Your Assets:
Number of jobs today’s graduates
will have in their career =
Do you know where your knowledge lives?
11-13
Organizations with no
Are you capturing it today?
formal succession plans
If your answers to these questions Don’t be part of the crowd! At
40% raise your anxiety level, you may find PeopleFirm we’ve teamed up with the
comfort in knowing you are not alone. national leaders in Peer Mentoring and
Yet whether you’re in good company content management to address this
# of people turning 55 or not, your organization may be threat to America’s corporate enterprises.
per day in the US facing a real strategic risk. Over the Our solution is customized to your
next several years, the US workforce organization’s unique needs and
10,000 will face an unprecedented turnover situation, helping you to assess the
rate of up to 40% of today’s workers. risks, prioritize your focus, and build
a holistic approach to addressing your
Despite the impending threat of this knowledge retention issues.
knowledge loss, a recent study by the
Institute for Corporate Productivity
85% of most organizations’
found that nearly two-thirds of the
knowledge is tacit. We can organizations surveyed have no formal
knowledge transfer programs in place
help you find and protect today. Less than 25% of 118 mid-to-large
these invisible assets. size organizations surveyed said they
know how to identify their critical
knowledge deficiencies.
Your People = Your Success

2. PeopleFirm’s Knowledge
MAPP Methodology
Estimate your Working with PeopleFirm, you’ll benefit from a comprehensive
financial risk approach that defines an actionable portfolio of solutions to
minimize your risks and increase your intellectual assets.
_________ # of employees
X Prioritize
_________ % anticipated to
Mobilize Assess Execute
leave in next 3-5 years
Plan
X
_________ average value of Mobilize
the knowledge your employees M • Confirm scope and approach
hold (modestly $5000 per • Engage leaders and communicate to organization
employee, it is likely to be
Assess
much higher)
A • Identify where your knowledge resides
• Understand how knowledge is captured and shared
= • Assess your impending risks
• Quantify the impact of potential knowledge losses
_________ your estimated • valuate how well your organization is managing people, structuring work, and
E
financial impact providing technology to enable your teams to capture and share knowledge
Prioritize
Example P • Develop the ROI for each solution / action
• Prioritize your portfolio of knowledge-retention actions
100,000 employees @ 35%
loss @ $5K knowledge value Plan
per employee = $5,000,000 P • Build your knowledge capture and retention roadmap: timeline, process,
in financial risk tools, and resources
• Create your team’s call to action
To retain your knowledge assets - think people, processes,
and technology
Process and Technology Solutions: People Solutions: We evaluate the full
www.peoplefirm.com We evaluate how work gets done and employee lifecycle and create solutions to
seek solutions that ensure an efficient help you keep key skills, acquire experience,
use of your knowledge assets and experts. and grow your team’s capabilities. Our
We can redesign work processes as well approach incorporates:
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as mentoring and knowledge sharing
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• Organizational Network Analysis
processes. We apply state of the art
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measure your intellectual capital. • Recruiting & On-boarding
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We will help you select and implement
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• Competency Development
& Career Planning
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