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#ECTalent: Setting a Talent Agenda

Strategic HCM

I’m at the Economist’s Talent Management Summit today. As part of this, Hugh Mitchell, CHRO at Shell, talked about this company’s business and explained why many of their employees have specific vs commodity skills – they only exist in people within this sector. So in 2005 Shell set up a new academy to raise project management skills.

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