QuickAssess is a web-based service that Global Knowledge provides in partnership with Lexonis. It allows you to capture employee skills information, analyse the results and then use the information to acquire or develop the skills you need.
Over the years, I have been working as a consultant with a range of organisations, public and private, large and small. I have found that one of the greatest challenges they face is understanding and managing what people they employ are capable of, and whether that capability supports what the organisation, as a business, is trying to achieve.
On 13th June in Milton Keynes, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT is hosting the first Using SFIA in Education and Workplace Learning conference. The conference, which is supported by The Open University and the SFIA Foundation, will look at the various uses of SFIA (the Skills Framework in the Information Age) in practical learning contexts.
The eighth edition of the Towards Maturity benchmark report was released recently. It makes interesting reading, and they have found an unusual and engaging way of presenting a summary of its findings.
As I wrote in my previous post SFIA version 5 – what’s new?, we have updated our skills finder tool to reflect the latest version of SFIA. We developed the skills finder in response to client requests for a tool that would assist people to simply and easily assess their capabilities against the framework. Although the documentation […]
Evolution not revolution is the motto, as is inviting contribution and comment from those using SFIA. What better way to ensure that the new version reflects the current state of IT than to use its community of users, partners and consultants to suggest how things should adapt?
Previously I blogged about why organisations need to improve the way in which they manage skills. In this post I’ll take you through our six step skills management methodology which illustrates a simple and structured approach to implementing skills management. I must stress that this is a best practice recommendation for managing skills – the extent and […]
In my previous post I talked about some of the challenges that organisations face when it comes to managing skills. As I mentioned, despite the fact that the wealth and productivity of most businesses today is primarily generated by its people, few take steps to ensure that the skills and capabilities they need are managed […]
Most modern companies have a better idea of the value of their tangible assets – building, equipment, IT systems and so forth – than they do of people that make up the organisation.
SFIA provides a common dictionary of definitions for recognisable IT skills which can then be built into standard job descriptions and role profiles that can be understood by anyone using the framework.
