Business Advantage Through Structured Skills Development

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1 Business Advantage Through Structured Skills Development

2 Business Advantage through Structured Skills Development BCS Career Developer is a powerful browser-based solution to help you define, manage and develop the IT skills within your organisation. Correctly used as part of a professional development programme, it will help ensure that the required skills are available to deliver projects on time. BCS Career Developer enables you to better understand your most important asset your people and to measure how closely their skills match your business requirements. It then enables you to further develop their skills to meet business needs and individual aspirations as part of a structured training and development programme leading to BCS Professional Development Accreditation. A skills inventory is built for your organization using the SFIAplus IT skills, training and development standard. IT professionals can then benchmark their knowledge, skills and experience against SFIAplus. IT job descriptions can be written for all positions within your organisation and BCS Career Developer will show how well the skills needs of the business are met by the skills available. When the skills gap has been assessed BCS Career Developer will help to develop your IT professionals to close the skills gap as part of training and development cycles. Recognising best practice in employer IT training and development

3 The features of Explore SFIAplus Explore the full SFIAplus standard using powerful search facilities. Examine SFIAplus via reference to other models e.g. ITIL and E-Gov models. Explore SFIAplus Generate corporate job descriptions Industry recognised roles can be combined to create corporate job descriptions which will define the level and work activities required for the position and the knowledge, skills, training and development that the postholder will require. Select project teams & identify subject matter experts Generate corporate job descriptions Set up organisation structure and manage teams Set up the specific organisational structure of your enterprise including departments, teams and individual posts. Job descriptions and people can then be assigned to those posts. Perform skills gap analysis Individual assessment & confirmation Set up organisation structure Individual assessment & confirmation Individuals assess themselves against SFIAplus and any organisation specific specialisms. The resulting statement of skills and competences are then confirmed by their manager. Perform gap analysis Advanced reporting tools enable production of gap analysis reports. Look at the details and manage the identified gaps in skill sets. Select project teams & identify subject matter experts Identify the skills required for a particular project and select individuals with those skills from your central skills inventory. Activate job description Set up personal development cycles Supervisor Activate job description Participants can activate their corporate or personal job description. This is the foundation of their career development cycle. Set up personal development cycles Personal Cycles ("My Cycles") form the basis of the Professional Development Plan. My Cycles take prompts from the Personal Job Description to ensure that both individual aspirations and corporate goals are achieved. Supervisor Supervisors can be the participant s line manager or an allocated mentor to help the participant to set up and achieve their cycle objectives.

4 Consultancy / Training BCS experts can help with the professional development of your IT staff and department. Our consultants work with managers and supervisors to establish scheme requirements, assist in the understanding of the SFIAplus standard and to provide advice and guidance during implementation. Find out more at Technical Support BCS operates a dedicated helpdesk for those using its professional development products. Helpdesk staff can provide technical assistance and support for upgrades during normal office hours. Other products for employers in the BCS Professional Development range BCS ITJobDescriber The cost-effective way to produce IT job descriptions based on the SFIAplus standard Defining the skills of your IT employees and the training and development required to maintain them is critical. The effective deployment of IT staff with the right skills will ensure business success and ultimately customer satisfaction. BCS SkillsManager Business Advantage Through IT Skills Management BCS Skills Manager is a powerful browser-based solution to identify and effectively manage the IT skills within your organisation. Skills Manager is aimed at organisations who want to resource manage their IT skills without an integrated career development plan as in BCS Career Developer. Browser-based and online delivery ensures constant availability of all BCS Professional Development products without the need for software installation. SFIAplus is the underlying standard within all Professional Development Products. It is not necessary to be a BCS member to purchase products & services for employers. To find out more contact: Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0) products@hq.bcs.org.uk

5 The building blocks of professionalism SFIAplus is the IT skills, training and development standard widely used in the UK and beyond. Developed and maintained for over 20 years by BCS in consultation with IT practitioners and employers, it is a key component of BCS Career Developer enabling benchmarking against a recognised standard. SFIAplus (version 3) Is the most established and widely adopted IT skills, training and development model reflecting current industry needs Allows employers and IT practitioners to identify career paths and plan training and development Contains a greater emphasis on: Business change Wireless and web technology Service Management - ITIL Security IT Governance and compliance Builds on SFIA version 3 by providing additional training and development detail for all 78 skills and 263 tasks Maps to ISEB practitioner qualifications and BCS Professional Examinations academic qualifications Shows the relationship with BCS Chartered and Incorporated membership grades How does SFIAplus work? SFIAplus provides a clear three dimensional model describing categories of work on one axis, levels of responsibility on another and resources/components on the third axis. BCS Career Developer not only allows you to browse the SFIAplus model, but also to define, manage and develop the skills, training and experience of your IT employees against the standard.

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