
Top management can set
future goals, but if the future
capability does not exist
below it, this will be an exer-
cise in frustration.
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tem, we are lifting human capital management out of the
measurement era and into the analytic era.
Enterprise Futures
The future of the enterprise is the sum of the future of the
functional and human capital levels. Top management can
set future goals, but if the future capability does not exist
below it, this will be an exer-
cise in frustration. (An element
of the future was embedded in
Figure 2-3 in Chapter 2 when I
presented the corporate hu-
man capital scorecard.) ...