December 2018 - SkillsTx

12 Dec

Empowerment to the people

The Empowerment - Transparency Binary Are empowerment and transparency always mutually inclusive? In most democratic countries we give our elected officials the empowerment to run government and make decisions that can affect our lives. But we EXPECT that they will make those decisions transparently. Sometimes unfortunately, there is less transparency than we expect of course, and we then need corruption watchdogs and the judiciary to uncover this…sigh. What...

10 Dec

Workforce Planning and Development

by Graham Kennedy

in Insights

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Workforce planning. The process of forecasting your staffing needs and working out the range of ways you can create and maintain the workforce to help you to achieve your business goals over the longer term. For example: Managing Digital Transformation. Workforce Development. The planned development of staff to improve the ability to meet future business needs. Whether those be in: » Business or job requirements » Client and...

04 Dec

What is the best skills assessment approach?

by Matthew Burrows

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People have a lot more skills than required by their current role and more than a third of roles will require a different mix of skills within the next year. So, why restrict skills assessments to the requirements of current roles only. Consider these statistics: SFIA (the Skills Framework for the Information Age) Data from the Digital Skills Landscape Report 2018, show that, on average an individual...

04 Dec

Will you make the press for a cybersecurity breach?

by Matthew Burrows

in Insights, News

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ISACA, an independent, non-profit, global association for IT governance professionals, publish an annual report of the results of their global State of Cybersecurity Survey. The 2018 version of this report shows that "Skills challenges remain, but are better understood. The skills gap continues unabated. Enterprises still have open security positions, and the time to fill them appears to have decreased slightly." Unfilled security positions “Fifty-nine percent of enterprises...