Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

A few years ago we ran an internal project called 'Micro-Missions' with some other departments. The idea was to use AI to identify and select candidates for short-term cross departmental appointments. This report from McKinsey draws on the same sort of insight and fleshes it out into a comprehensive model called 'win rooms'. They say, "A data-enabled talent win room is a central, cross-functional team that uses internal and external data to address talent attraction needs and rapidly recruit in-demand talent." This to me represents another inevitable step from hiring based on academic credentials and toward hiring based on actual data on needs and performance.

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