Adoption of Skills Manager Products

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Adoption of Skills Manager Products John
Gwynne Professional Development Services Manager
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Agenda

• Skills Market changing background
• Career Developer adoption
• Skills Manager product adoption
• Individual products built on SFIAplus

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Some IT Industry Numbers
The size of the challenge

• IT Professionals working in IT industry 370k
• IT Professionals working in other sectors 590k
• Total 960k 3.5 of UK working population (27M)
• Of these 192k only 20 - are female
• IT Users in the workforce 20 Million
• Business Managers, all sectors 4 Million
• 45 of UK Gross Added Value (30bn) comes from IT

Source IT Insights Trends and UK Skills
Implications e-skills UK and Gartner Consulting
November 2004
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New Terms
Infoglut

• The world produces 2x109 gigabytes of data per
  year 250Mb per Man, Woman, Child on the planet
• UK managers spend on average 102 minutes per day
  on 52 emails
• Compare this with ten years ago?
• IT Users will need new skills to sift and use the
  information available
• Professionals will need new skills, methods and
  applications to handle vast amounts of data

The growth of connectivity will only accelerate
this trend
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Sourcing Various New Terms
Outsourcing, Insourcing, Geosourcing, Offshoring
Many new challenges

• Companies will outsource elements of their IT
  operations to UK vendors and sometimes elements
  will be Geosourced or Offshored
• Some IT parts of the IT operation will remain
  embedded key functions critical core business
  and high value innovation
• Remaining IT business will need skills in
  innovation, change management, infrastructure
  management, supporting the new model of IT
  delivery
• IT Professionals outside the industry will move
  into it as part of INsourcing deals
• Impacts the Industry, IT Professionals, Business
  Managers

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Redefined Roles Responsibilities

• Business Managers
• Merging IT and Business Strategy
• Recognising exploiting IT in business
  applications
• Managing and exploiting the large amounts of
  available data
• Managing the i-generation entering the industry
• New Demands on Managers
• Greater strategic benefit from IT
• Leveraging greater returns on IT investment
• Dealing with GeoSourcing

New, Broader and Deeper Skills Required
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New Skills Required
Emphasis on new skills

• Privacy and Security
• Industry will need security standards to work
  across multiple vendors and user organisations.
• IT Professionals will need specialist security
  skills
• Managers will need skills to make decisions
  related to security appropriate to their industry
• Internet Generation
• From 2007 children brought up on mobile phones,
  internet and computer games will start to enter
  the industry.
• Challenge for IT and Business Managers !

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Decline of the Old - Growth of the new

• Declining
• IT Operations
• Programming
• Growth
• Systems Architecture
• Systems Integration
• Networking
• Project and Programme Management
• Business Analysis
• Web Support
• Business Awareness, Management, Leadership
• Security, Ethics, IT Law

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BCS Product Progress

• Career Developer
• Skills Manager
• Career Builder
• Professional Experience Record

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SFIAplus BCS Career Developer

• Launch October 2004
• Eight organisations to February 2005
• Over 900 corporate participants
• Organisations include
• House of Commons, Scottish Executive,
• NHS in Scotland, Met Office
• Suffolk County Council
• BAA
• Dyfed-Powys Police
• Met Office
• University trial planned for Summer 2004
• Used for Professional Development, Career paths
• Business Change, Restructuring
• Recruitment issues, Assessing Technical
  Competences

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BCS Skills Manager

• Launched May 2004
• Adopted by 21 organisations to date
• Over 1100 corporate participants
• Organisation types include
• Finance Building Societies, Insurance
• Public Sector Utilities, ACAS, CPS, DSS,
• Local Authorities
• Private Sector Retailers, Publishing, Logistics,
  
• European Stock Exchange
• Used for Skills Audits, Career Paths, Targeting
  Training
• Business Change, Restructuring
• Recruitment issues, Assessing Technical
  Competences

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SFIAplus Corporate Users
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SFIAplus - Individual Usage

• BCS Career Builder
• Individual CPD product based on SFIAplus
• Over 1600 users registered since launch in May
  2004
• BCS Professional Experience Record
• Individual CPD and validated CV tool
• Aimed at contractors and individuals not in a
  corporate PD scheme
• Launched January 2005
• Promoting through BCS SIGs and via www.bcs.org

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Professional DevelopmentProducts and Services
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Thank You
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