Preliminary results for the Skill and Expertise Management 2018 survey. Interesting insights into why people are adopting skill management.

Take this five-minute survey for insight into the impact of skill and expertise management on individual and organizational success.

There will be many futures of work. Which do you want to live in? Which are you preparing for? In a collaborative creative future, we need to manage our skills.

Our smart phones and the apps we have on them have become our personas. Any modern approach to engagement must acknowledge this.

The ability to collaborate is a perfect entry point into the world of skills. There are many important associated skills like empathy and communication.

Utilization is a key business metric for professional services companies. Insight into skills and expertise is critical to effective utilization management.

Empathy is an important part of everything from design thinking, to leadership, to mentoring and sales. Is it a skill or a trait? Can it be developed?

Relationships take you only so far in winning work. You have to be able to demonstrate skills & prove differentiation. Skill & expertise management does this.

Foundational skills are the skills used to build other skills, like learning and critical thinking.

Skill management works when seeded with skill & project data, connected to systems like CRM & project management when people get direct value from use.

Skill management answers critical questions about knowledge workers enabling higher performance. Talent management or SharePoint are not viable alternatives.

TeamFit was used to profile the skills of 400 members of the 97,000 members LinkedIn Design Thinking Group. Two different skill clusters were found.

Managing business to optimize for staff utilization will ultimately lead to commoditization. Applying skills to build differentiation is a better strategy.

We share skills and relationships with the people we work with. TeamFit gives you a way to see these and to navigate across your skill network.

There is a lot of confusion between skills, expertise and competency. Here we see how they fit together in the context of a performance model.

TeamFit's skill extraction technology is a powerful way to compare companies on skills. Here the iconic design firms IDEO and Frog are compared.

The skills paradigm enables 702010 experiential learning. Skills are the necessary connector between experience, learning and performance.

The critical risk in mergers & acquisitions is the people. Ibbaka gives you the critical insights you need to safely navigate this high-risk event.

Skill insight generally uncovers skill gaps. What actions can companies take? Shuffling, Skilling, Swapping.