This report highlights the growing importance of skills strategies for organizational agility, despite their complexity and disruption. Leaders stress the need to start quickly. It presents a framework with six key elements: scope and purpose, partnership, culture, architecture, data, and technology, which overlap and must be managed together. Organizations can choose between two skills architectures based on their traits. Skills data is imperfect but useful for guiding decisions. Technology is critical and should be chosen carefully. Skills efforts require ongoing adjustment to remain effective as strategy and culture evolve. The insights come from extensive interviews, roundtables, and vendor briefings.

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