Capital goods and services costs are increasing. Sustainability is no longer a fad, is indispensable. The workforce is increasingly decentralized. The challenge today for the industrial products company is to capture the growth in the market to be increasingly customer centric, improve operational efficiencies and balance the uncertainties of changes in regulation and compliance costs.

In the light of global competition, your company may be reassessing where and how they develop and market the products. A less understood challenge, however, is how to make best use of the most important asset of your business: the workforce. As part of the comprehensive Global Human Capital Study IBM, which included more than 400 senior HR executives from 40 countries were examined metallurgical industries, manufacturers of mining and industrial products, to understand how companies are improving performance workforce.

The study focuses on the four requirements of the workforce facing the metallurgical industry and mining:

• Flexibility of the labor force.
• Leadership for results of the work force.
• Talent management and employee lifecycle.
• Integration of information.