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.

What ‘red teams’ can teach the agile community

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

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 [...]

Can HR master the talent:process equilibrium?

Across organisations and in general, there is a growing realisation that people are probably the [...]

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 [...]