Strategic IT Resource Management

Strategic IT Resource Management

12 signs that you should be more strategic with IT resource management When asked in industry surveys – your CIO is the one who responds “we have skills gaps but no plan to fill skills gaps” Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder, surveyed more than 2,000...
Getting the Most Out of 70-20-10

Getting the Most Out of 70-20-10

This article is from Robert Demare who led a successful adoption of SFIA within DHL. In the article he challenges the approach many organisation have adopted to using 70:20:10. I found this refreshing – it can seem that many organisations feel they are...
What does Blended Learning mean?

What does Blended Learning mean?

Blended learning is a concept (or is it a piece of jargon) which has been with us for sometime. Its one of those phrases where it is easy to assume everyone understands it and it has a common meaning. Step forward Jane Hart to expose the reality: “Blended...
Building Cloud Competencies

Building Cloud Competencies

I have put together a story board of slides below to demonstrate how IT organisations can respond to the challenges of 2 speed IT and building Cloud competencies in a structured and timely way. It includes using SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age) as a...
63 things you can do with SFIA

63 things you can do with SFIA

SFIA is a flexible framework with many direct and indirect uses. This makes SFIA a very powerful tool but it does come with a health warning; be wary if someone tells you how to “implement” SFIA. The real question should be “What are your IT...