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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Each of us has many skills that we bring to our work. Focus on the most obvious skills does not do justice the real complexity of work or our personalities.
Time to Change - Innovation Requires Adaptive Change
Research from AT Kearney finds that as many as 80% of transformation projects fail or under-deliver. Innovation requires adaptive, not just technical change.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - skill search and people search
Advanced Search allows you to expand and make your skill skill-based allocation far more efficient.
The key business questions for skill and expertise management
What are the key business questions for skill and expertise management? How will answering these questions change your business? Critical performance questions.
Riding the tidal wave of prediction
With machine learning data on skills and project performance combine to uncover potential and predict success. The future of skill and expertise management.
The ROI on Skill and Expertise Management Part 2: Utilization
Utilization is a key business metric for professional services companies. Insight into skills and expertise is critical to effective utilization management.
People Priority or Role Priority - take a shot at TeamBuilder
Skill-based allocation is how to build teams. This offers far more value than availability-based approaches. TeamFit supports person and role-based approaches.
Trends in the LinkedIn Design Thinking Group for August 2017
The Design Thinking group on LinkedIn has almost 100,000 members. New members are invited to take a short survey. Here are the results for August 2017.
The ROI on Skill and Expertise Management: Part 1 Win More Work
What drives ROI on skill & expertise management? The most powerful levers are better utilization & the ability to win more projects.
Our choice of core and target skills helps define our career path
We all have more skills than we can use at any one time. TeamFit let's you signal if a skill is core to your work, targeted to improve or downgraded.
Is empathy a skill?
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?
Skill and expertise management helps win projects
Relationships take you only so far in winning work. You have to be able to demonstrate skills & prove differentiation. Skill & expertise management does this.
The rhythm of skill development
Past skills, earned in the roles we have had throughout our careers resurface in new ways and are the foundation for new abilities.
What are the most important foundational skills?
Foundational skills are the skills used to build other skills, like learning and critical thinking.
Happy Skilling --- TeamFit moves to Version 2
Gregory Ronczewski on the ideas and emotions behind TeamFit version 2.
What do I need to do to succeed with skill management?
Skill management works when seeded with skill & project data, connected to systems like CRM & project management when people get direct value from use.
What are the alternatives to a skill management platform?
Skill management answers critical questions about knowledge workers enabling higher performance. Talent management or SharePoint are not viable alternatives.
Profiling the LinkedIn Design Thinking Group's skills
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.
Are you optimizing skills for business performance?
Managing business to optimize for staff utilization will ultimately lead to commoditization. Applying skills to build differentiation is a better strategy.
Skill insight can clarify your competitive position - comparing Fjord, Frog and IDEO
TeamFit's skill insight technology clarifies competitive positioning and core capabilities. Here we compare Fjord, Frog, IDEO.