The HERE and now of an opportunity marketplace to dynamically mobilize talent, drive productivity and build winning teams

Summary

HERE Technologies, the location intelligence company whose mapping data powers the majority of vehicles across the US and Europe, faced a challenge common to fast-scaling technology firms: managing talent effectively enough to build an agile workforce and reduce reliance on costly external outsourcing for specialized skills.

HERE Technologies, with thousands of employees generating enormous volumes of map data daily, partnered with a talent mobilization platform to build a more accessible internal talent pipeline. The approach centers on bringing visibility to in-demand skills across the organization, closing skill gaps through targeted learning and development, and matching employee capabilities directly to forecasted project needs rather than relying on default external hiring.

A three-step mechanism drives the transformation: employees creating detailed online profiles, managers publishing open projects, and AI matching opportunities to available skills, alongside a leadership perspective on why looking outside the company for talent was often a default rather than a necessity, driven by limited internal visibility rather than an actual lack of capability.

For organizations wrestling with the build-versus-buy talent question, HERE Technologies' experience offers a concrete look at how greater internal visibility can unlock productivity, agility and more diverse teams without immediately turning to external hiring or outsourcing partners.

How much internal talent capacity goes unused simply because organizations lack visibility into what their own people can do?