Abstract: A system is described for providing a workforce planning tool. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store organizational information including the number of employees, a growth percentage over a period of time, net employee turnover over the period of time, and a hiring percentage over the period of time for each hire type used by the organization. The processor may receive the information and determine a talent gap consisting of a total number of hires required based on the number of employees, the growth percentage and the net employee turnover. The processor may determine a number of hires of each hire type based on the hiring percentage for each hire type and the total number of hires, and may transform the number of hires for each hire type into a hiring strategy. The processor may provide the hiring strategy to the user.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a mesh like fabric for implantation beneath or within the dermis to control formation of scar tissue; the fabric being aligned such that its axis having the greatest resistance to distension is aligned parallel to the predominant stresses to which a wound is thought to be subject these being principally parallel to the wound line; axes of the fabric having lesser resistances to distension serving to control other stresses within the dermis transverse to the predominant longitudinal stresses; the fabric being provided with a binder in order to maintain the mesh structure in a known pre-stressed orientation.