Following their 7-0 demolition of Korea DPR last night, Portugal look to be living up to their talent management prowess and heading all the way to the final.
While the real World Cup is beginning to heat up in South Africa, analysis based on global talent management status by Towers Watson predicts that Portugal are odds on to walk away with the title.
And following their 7-0 demolition of Korea DPR last night, the Portuguese look to be living up to their talent management prowess.
Towers Watson used a weighted average of country employee opinion benchmarks against the latest FIFA rankings, and found that Brazil and Portugal would face-off in the final of a global talent management competition.
Its analysis is based on employee data from the 32 participating countries and looks at the drivers of superior team performance.
“We thought it would be fun and interesting to apply our research and expertise to predict the winner,” said Yves Duhaldeborde, managing director of employee engagement at Towers Watson.
“In short, we believe that Portugal would be the team most likely to win the World Cup, beating Brazil in the final. Serbia would beat Greece in the third place play off.”
“We used a weighted average of the TW Index (2/3) and the FIFA rankings (1/3) as that combination provided a fairly realistic option with a few surprises,” said Duhaldeborde. “Other solutions tested were too similar to many pundit results and other predictions so we thought we would keep it interesting.”
The analysis predicts the latter stages of the World Cup would look like this:
Quarterfinals
Brazil beat The Netherlands
Serbia beat Mexico
Greece beat Germany
Portugal beat Italy
Semi-finals
Brazil beat Serbia
Portugal beat Greece
Third-place play-off
Serbia beat Greece
Final
Portugal beat Brazil
