Session
Where Should We Double Down?
Using workforce, market, cost and risk evidence to make global location decisions
PAWorld26 San Francisco · 23–24 September 2026 · San Francisco
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About this session
HPE's location challenge is not simply where people live. It is how to balance local business choices with a coherent enterprise view of talent supply, cost, market conditions, risk and strategic importance. Lindsey Taylor's team has assembled a broad set of workforce and market inputs and is using analytical weighting, including AI-supported work, to compare locations and make trade-offs more visible. The session will show how the framework is being built, where executive judgement enters, and what remains unresolved before it becomes a durable operating mechanism.
Learning outcomes
- See how multiple evidence sources can support a location decision.
- Understand where modelling ends and accountable leadership judgement begins.
- Apply a practical distinction between enterprise location principles and local context.
This session will explore
- The business problem created by fragmented location choices.
- The workforce, market, cost and risk evidence used in the framework.
- How weighting and AI support the analysis without owning the answer.
- The governance tension between enterprise principles and business-unit autonomy.
Context
A practitioner case about evidence, decision rights and the limits of analytical recommendation.
Speakers and contributors
Lindsey TaylorPresenterVP Strategic Workforce Planning & People AnalyticsHPE%20300.png)