Adoption of Skills Manager Products John Gwynne Professional Development Services Manager

1. Adoption of Skills Manager Products John Gwynne Professional Development Services Manager

2. Agenda • Skills Market – changing background • Career Developer adoption • Skills Manager product adoption • Individual products built on SFIAplus John Gwynne

3. Some IT Industry Numbers The size of the challenge… • IT Professionals working in IT industry: 370k • IT Professionals working in other sectors: 590k • Total 960k = 3.5% of UK working population (27M) • Of these 192k – only 20% - are female • IT Users in the workforce: 20 Million • Business Managers, all sectors: 4 Million • 45% of UK Gross Added Value (£30bn) comes from IT Source: IT Insights: Trends and UK Skills Implications e-skills UK and Gartner Consulting November 2004 John Gwynne

4. New Terms • The world produces 2x109 gigabytes of data per year = 250Mb per Man, Woman, Child on the planet • UK managers spend on average 102 minutes per day on 52 emails • Compare this with ten years ago…? • IT Users will need new skills to sift and use the information available • Professionals will need new skills, methods and applications to handle vast amounts of data “Infoglut” The growth of connectivity will only accelerate this trend John Gwynne

5. Sourcing – Various New Terms • Companies will outsource elements of their IT operations to UK vendors and sometimes elements will be “Geosourced” or “Offshored” • Some IT parts of the IT operation will remain embedded: key functions critical core business and high value innovation • Remaining IT business will need skills in innovation, change management, infrastructure management, supporting the new model of IT delivery • IT Professionals outside the industry will move into it as part of INsourcing deals • Impacts: the Industry, IT Professionals, Business Managers Outsourcing, Insourcing, Geosourcing, Offshoring Many new challenges: John Gwynne

6. Redefined Roles & Responsibilities • Business Managers • Merging IT and Business Strategy • Recognising & exploiting IT in business applications • Managing and exploiting the large amounts of available data • Managing the “i-generation” entering the industry • New Demands on Managers • Greater strategic benefit from IT • Leveraging greater returns on IT investment • Dealing with GeoSourcing New, Broader and Deeper Skills Required John Gwynne

7. New Skills Required Emphasis on new skills • Privacy and Security: • Industry will need security standards to work across multiple vendors and user organisations. • IT Professionals will need specialist security skills • Managers will need skills to make decisions related to security appropriate to their industry • Internet Generation • From 2007 children brought up on mobile phones, internet and computer games will start to enter the industry. • Challenge for IT and Business Managers ! John Gwynne

8. Decline of the Old - Growth of the new • Declining: • IT Operations • Programming • Growth: • Systems Architecture • Systems Integration • Networking • Project and Programme Management • Business Analysis • Web Support • Business Awareness, Management, Leadership • Security, Ethics, IT Law John Gwynne

9. BCS Product Progress • Career Developer • Skills Manager • Career Builder • Professional Experience Record John Gwynne

10. SFIAplus – BCS Career Developer • Launch October 2004 • Eight organisations to February 2005 • Over 900 corporate participants • Organisations include • House of Commons, Scottish Executive, • NHS in Scotland, Met Office • Suffolk County Council • BAA • Dyfed-Powys Police • Met Office • University trial planned for Summer 2004 • Used for Professional Development, Career paths • Business Change, Restructuring • Recruitment issues, Assessing Technical Competences John Gwynne

11. BCS Skills Manager • Launched May 2004 • Adopted by 21 organisations to date • Over 1100 corporate participants • Organisation types include • Finance: Building Societies, Insurance • Public Sector: Utilities, ACAS, CPS, DSS, • Local Authorities • Private Sector: Retailers, Publishing, Logistics, • European Stock Exchange • Used for: Skills Audits, Career Paths, Targeting Training • Business Change, Restructuring • Recruitment issues, Assessing Technical Competences John Gwynne

12. SFIAplus Corporate Users John Gwynne

13. SFIAplus - Individual Usage • BCS Career Builder: • Individual CPD product based on SFIAplus • Over 1600 users registered since launch in May 2004 • BCS Professional Experience Record • Individual CPD and validated CV tool • Aimed at contractors and individuals not in a corporate PD scheme • Launched January 2005 • Promoting through BCS SIGs and via www.bcs.org John Gwynne

14. Professional DevelopmentProducts and Services John Gwynne

15. Thank You John Gwynne

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