Ron McLaren

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How it's going
SKILLS FRAMEWORK FOR THE INFORMATION AGE

• Ron McLaren
• Operations Manager, SFIA Foundation

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The Scene

• Professionalism OGC Intellect
• Large organisations moving
• Cabinet office
• European Commission
• Reporting human capital

A year ago they were saying it is important. Now
they are doing something.
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Users

• Thousands have registered an interest on the SFIA
  web site
• Of those
• 40 in full use
• 102 using for a specific purpose
• 107 likely to use in 12 months
• User Group to be reconstituted
• Cabinet Office taking an interest

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Japan

• K.K.Puraido Company
• IT Consulting Services Company
• SFIA Translated into Japanese
• Launched
• First sale just reported

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Partners

• InfoBasis
• ESI Product Significant successes
• Organisations ready for this approach
• Training companies
• Mapping course to SFIA
• Irish Computer Society
• Member assessment

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BCS

• Launch of SFIAplus
• BCS has considerable success with ISM
• Compatibility with SFIA not widely recognised
• Launch of SFIAplus clarifies
• Support of tools key to their strategy
• Skills Manager, Career Developer

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Newsletter

• Overseen by SFIA Steering Group
• Production by Don Taylor
• Latest edition now on SFIA.org.uk

Skills Update
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Training Accreditation

• First course run at Mansfield Street
• Accredited Consultants
• Jeremy Barton Azlan
• Paul Cooper Ergon
• Sqd-Ldr Al Jones

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SFIA 2005

• Update Plans
• Input from
• Users
• National Occupational Standards
• ITIL
• you
• Malcolm Sillars explains the process

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Lift-off

• Don Taylor told this conference
• SFIAs time has come things are about to start
  happening

They are !
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Conference slides will be on www.sfia.org.uk