Each year, Business Talent Group releases the High-End Independent Talent Report, looking across industries and business functions to analyze how business leaders deploy top independent talent to fill critical skill, expertise, and leadership gaps. Here are the key industrial goods trends for 2021.
Facing a shortage of skilled talent, industrial companies have found help in the independent market. Opportunity assessment, for the third year, leads the pack for most requested project type. New on this year’s agenda: planning, manufacturing excellence, and human capital aimed at identifying new markets and innovations, building operational resilience, and enabling workforce agility and safety.
PROJECT CATEGORIES: Industrial Goods
| 57% Strategy |
| 20% Operations |
| 11% Organization |
| 6% Transformation |
| 6% Interim Executive |
MOST IN-DEMAND PROJECTS
Opportunity Assessment
Planning
Manufacturing Excellence
Human Capital
Business Processes
Interim Leadership
M&A
Product Strategy and Launch
Growth Strategy
Marketing and Sales
MOST IN-DEMAND SKILLS
Market Landscape and Research
Project Management
Organizational Design and Workforce Planning
Business Plan Development
Communications
Corporate and Business Unit Strategy
Compensation Strategy
Process Optimization and Transformation
Portfolio Strategy
Advanced Analytics
SAMPLE INDUSTRIAL GOODS PROJECTS
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Conduct market and competitive situational assessment and recommend strategic options in an adjacent industry
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Develop an integrated economic value model for a major organizational transformation
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Serve as an interim Business Development Director to drive current opportunities and build a world class business development and capital projects function
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Analyze the current plant network strategy and provide recommendation to reduce costs and increase utilization
