My Top 5 Digital Skills Management ‘Misconceptions’ I find the following five misconceptions a cause of great frustration, mainly because they are so easily overcome, especially with the advent of automation in terms of skill capture and exploitation of the resultant data. I personally find SFIA to be a wonderful framework, authored and refined over the years with input from across the industry to become a fantastic...
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Skills gap analysis should prompt two questions in your mind: ‘are you sure you have the right people with the right skills to prevent hackers from getting to your customer data?’ ‘do you have the right people with the right skills to spot a breach quickly – or will you have to wait until an external organisation tells you that you have a problem?’ Not addressing...
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Infrastructure & Operations digital skill gaps to disrupt 75% of organisations by 2020 Two-thirds of organizations are not adequately addressing the infrastructure and operations (I&O) skills gaps that will impede their digital business initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. Successful I&O organizations will need to implement vastly different roles and technologies during the next five years. Gartner forecasts that, by 2019, IT technical specialist hires will fall by...
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Analysis of capabilities, competencies and skills in Digital, Cyber and ICT professionals The data analysed in the report is from 4,902 individuals who have used SFIA6 to produce a profile of their skills through our self-assessment. Here is the introduction from the report, a compelling reason, we believe, to take a little to read through the report: “Gartner predicts that, by 2020, 75 percent of organizations will experience...
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Is there a link between the ability to identify and address skill gaps, and the improvements in the wellbeing of employees? The answer is a resounding YES! And we would only need to look at our own work life for confirmation of this. Who has NOT experienced anxiety and stress at having to deliver a job requirement that has caused sleepless nights. It could have been...
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When conducting skills analysis for a workforce or a job candidate, what a difference a few words can make. Here’s a discussion we often get involved with: What’s the difference between these two questions...
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The ability to Identify exactly what training is needed to address the skills required for your current job or future job, can vastly improve the value you get from training. Far too often we hear about training budgets that were spent on a whim, or due to a financial year end rush? Usually it is due to a lack of clarity and focus, reducing the decisions made...
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The ISACA, 2016 Cybersecurity Snapshot released in 2017, discusses the attitudes of businesses to the US Cybersecurity Act and the threats, issues and opportunities facing cybersecurity professionals. The findings make it clear there is concern about the growing number and severity of cyber threats and consequently, the likelihood of such an attack disrupting critical infrastructure such as electrical and water supplies. Whilst organisations want to act...
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