The missing foundation: Unlocking workforce intelligence for smarter talent investments

In today’s fast-moving economy, HR leaders, CHROs, and talent strategists face a critical challenge: ensuring their workforce has the right skills at the right time to drive business success. But despite massive investments in reskilling, workforce planning, and talent intelligence, many organizations still struggle with talent gaps, internal mobility bottlenecks, and outdated taxonomies that fail to reflect the real-world labor market.

So what’s missing? A dynamic, data-driven foundation that enables skills-based workforce planning at scale.

Why Traditional Workforce Models Are Falling Short

For decades, organizations have relied on static taxonomies to categorize skills and jobs. While these models provide structure, they lack the agility to keep pace with emerging roles, evolving industries, and shifting workforce demands.

According to the World Economic Forum, the skills needed for the average job will change by 40% within five years. Yet, most workforce intelligence systems rely on surveys and outdated classification models that take years to update. This creates gaps in skill mapping, talent mobility, and workforce planning, forcing organizations into a reactiveapproach to hiring and reskilling.

The Solution: A Knowledge Graph for Workforce Intelligence

The latest eBook from Cornerstone and SkyHive explores how a dynamic knowledge graph can revolutionize talent architecture and workforce planning. Unlike traditional taxonomies, a knowledge graph:

• Maps real-time labor market insights by analyzing job postings, resumes, and corporate data
• Connects internal workforce intelligence with external trends to identify emerging skills and job pathways
• Supports reskilling, career pathing, and talent mobility through AI-driven skill mapping
• Enables workforce agility by continuously evolving as new skills, job roles, and industry trends emerge

What’s Inside the eBook?

• Why today’s talent investments often fail—and how to fix them
• The difference between taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs (and why it matters for HR)
• How a knowledge graph powers reskilling, internal mobility, and dynamic workforce planning
• Real-world examples of AI-driven talent architecture in action

Workforce Planning for the Future Starts Now

HR leaders can no longer rely on static, disconnected data. To compete in a skills-driven economy, organizations need a dynamic workforce planning model—one that aligns talent strategy with real-time labor market intelligence.

Ready to future-proof your workforce intelligence strategy? Download the eBook today and discover how SkyHive by Cornerstone is transforming talent architecture, career paths, and skill inventories for leading organizations worldwide.