Skills Gap Analysis

There’s no polite way to ask the question: are the people at the company any good? When was the last time a skills gap analysis was conducted? The way to assess staff is to juxtapose the current and future computing and communications requirements (ideally derived from the corporate business strategy and business technology strategy) with current and future skill sets. But the real work lies in the objective assessment of the gaps between what a company needs and what it actually has. The sad fact is that most companies under invest in the development of their professionals which inevitably results in large skills gaps. We focus on where the gaps are and what the company is doing about closing the gaps. Are there internal and external training programs? Are they making a difference? Are their “before” and “after” metrics to determine if training and education is effective? Are incentives in place to reward – and punish – employees who achieve – and under-achieve?