Category Archives: Competence governance

This category covers ways in which businesses are managing skills gaps, and includes diverse solutions such as crowdsourcing, remote working, flexible working and accelerator programmes.

Re-framing opportunities: why thought leaders may want to coach their sales partners

One of the biggest changes in the world of work in the last ten years [...]

Six takeaways from Brian Souza’s The Weekly Coaching Conversation

On the face of it, a book called The Weekly Coaching Conversation is not the [...]

Expertise driven conversations: the growth mindset edition

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? They agreed to a race, and [...]

The tricky art of customer centricity

Famously, early twentieth century retailers Harry Gordon Selfridge, John Wanamaker and Marshall Field coined the [...]

How deep is your digital mindset?

One of the biggest changes for many people during 2020 has been the huge increase [...]

Why marketers will need to dig deeper into emotional intelligence in 2021

You don’t very often see ‘emotional intelligence’ among the skills listed on a marketing job [...]

Marketers: Are your stories sticky enough?

Do you know the story of how teddy bears got their name? You may not [...]

What ‘red teams’ can teach the agile community

‘War games’ are military exercises that are used to test or improve tactics and strategy [...]

Learning to re-learn: developing your coachability

Let’s start with a question: How hard do you find it to admit that you [...]

What every tech practitioner should know about the IFIP

IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing. By its own admission, and according to [...]

Getting the most out of Skills You Need

Few of us these days have the luxury of ‘being sent on a course’ when [...]

Are datacentres losing the war for talent?

The second Cassini Club Roundtable themed “Stone Age Thinking, Second Machine Age Challenges” was held on Wednesday [...]

Is your data centre skills audit fit for purpose?

As part of the preparation for our upcoming Cassini Club Roundtable on skills, we have [...]

Social media in the hiring process

Social media goes way beyond Facebook, and its effective use is helping companies around the [...]

Using social media for employer branding

Social media is changing the way that we operate, both at work and at home. [...]

CIO Survey 2014: Optimism, importance and skills

An excerpt of a post published elsewhere. A link to the original is at the [...]

The rise and rise of the Chief Data Officer

You know there’s something important going on when a phrase appears with initial capitals. Like [...]

Entrepreneurs in Residence: Cisco re-invents support for start-ups

We’ve written before about changes to the landscape of start-ups. We mentioned the existence of [...]

In pursuit of perspective: Women’s Directorship Programme

Historically, there have always been far fewer women than men in boardrooms, and a lot [...]

A socially-responsible approach to crowd-sourcing: MobileWorks

The world of work is becoming increasingly flexible. More and more workers are choosing to [...]

Talent, the globalising workforce and telework

It is clear we are all working remotely more often. Better access to broadband, cloud [...]

Why crowdsourcing became mainstream

One of the most astonishing changes in ways of working that companies need to understand [...]

Disrupting the start-up landscape

It seems hardly a day goes by without some new technology start-up being lauded as [...]