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As more employers become skills-based organisations, HR practitioners will need to rethink traditional strategies and apply a more dynamic approach to talent management, according to an advisor.

A benefit of organising people based on skills, instead of by roles, is that it's quicker and easier to respond to change, and to seize opportunities, says Richard Wilson, a director at business advisory Bendelta.

Resources can be directed to projects, instead of functions, he tells HR Daily.

"When businesses discover that they've got a particular acute strategic need, it's quite useful to think, 'what skills service those needs?', and to organise around those skills, as opposed to just trying to deliver to those needs based on our existing functions," Wilson says...