For companies
Strategic Workforce Planning
Align your workforce skills with business strategy
Skills gaps slow down growth, limit adaptability, and stall transformation. We help organisations in Finland take a structured approach to workforce planning by identifying the competencies your strategy requires, mapping what you have today, and building programmes that close the gap.
Why strategic workforce planning matters now
The pace of change in technology, markets, and ways of working puts pressure on every organisation’s skill base. Leaders across industries face the same challenge, that existing competencies no longer match where the business is heading.
A growing number of decision-makers identify skills as a strategic bottleneck:
- Skills gaps prevent growth and limit the ability to adapt
- New capabilities are needed faster than organisations can develop them
- Existing competencies do not scale to meet new demands
39 %
of employees’ core competencies will change by 2030
78 %
of organisations need to significantly develop workforce skills to remain competitive
(Skills Transformation Study 2025, Saranen & Henry ry)
47 %
of current workforce skills need significant development to meet strategic requirements
(Skills Transformation Study 2025, Saranen & Henry ry)
From skills gap to strategic clarity
Our specialists help you connect competence development directly to business strategy and organisational renewal.
Working together, we identify what competencies your strategy requires now and in the future. We help you anticipate the challenges involved in renewing skills and building new capabilities, and we stay with you through implementation.
What our clients gain
Clear visibility into the current state of workforce skills
Skills-informed business planning and decision-making
Faster ability to respond to market and technology shifts
Measurable impact from development initiatives
Who is this service for?
This service is designed for organisations where existing skills are no longer aligned with business needs. Advances in technology and AI mean that a significant share of employees’ current competencies risk becoming outdated within a few years.
The need for strategic workforce planning often surfaces when development efforts produce unclear results, when training investments cannot be tied to business outcomes, or when leadership teams lack a shared view of what competencies the organisation actually needs.
Typical situations where this service is used
- Strategy renewal requiring new capabilities
- Mergers and acquisitions with overlapping or missing competencies
- Organisational restructuring
- Persistent skills gaps that reactive hiring cannot solve
- Building long-term capability to anticipate change
How we build impactful competence management
1.
Skills Mapping
Skills mapping. We assess the current state of competencies across your organisation and establish clear goals and metrics for development.
2.
Defining the Target State
We build practical operating models to renew competencies in a way that supports your strategy and strengthens your organisation’s culture.
3.
Competence Development Programme
We move from model to practice together, translating plans into concrete actions that take root in everyday work.
Other solutions for developing capabilities
Assessment & Development
Strengthen growth with considered people solutions.
Competence leadership with Skillcode
Barona’s group company Skillcode builds solutions focused on the continuous renewal of skills. Skillcode brings together up-to-date talent intelligence, technology and coaching partners – ensuring that learning translates into measurable results.
Why Barona?
We coach organisations to implement and lead continuous learning, not just plan it.
We build practical operating models for skills renewal, learning, and career management that work in real organisations.
We draw on experience from hundreds of change processes and skills initiatives across multiple industries in Finland.
Our specialists combine labour market insight with hands-on implementation capability.
Get in touch – let’s turn skills into your competitive advantage
Let’s build the capacity to adapt together, so that your organisation’s skills meet the demands of change now and in the future.
