Competency frameworks and competency models are an important way to organize the skills needed to perform work and achieve goals. They frame the relationships between all the different things used to describe jobs and roles and connect them to performance. Competency models can seed the development of a skill graph and can also be used as a lens to look into a large skill graph.

Ibbaka collects competency frameworks of all sorts for reference. We want to see if we can represent them properly in our skill management system and see if they contain skills we should add to our skill graph. GreenComp: The European Sustainable Competence Framework is a set of twelve competencies developed by the European Union to support the development of sustainable societies and organizations.

Work on IEEE 1484.40.2 Defining Competencies is nearing completion. Eric Shepherd has shared an excellent presentation The Value of Competency Definitions and Frameworks. We share a few slides here and connect it to Ibbaka’s work in this area.

Ibbaka has partnered with Learning Agents to create GoFrameworks. GoFrameworks is a place where Canadian businesses, government agencies and educational institutions can find skill and competency frameworks (or models) that can be aligned with badges and microcredentials.