The CIO's Guide to Maximizing IT Employee Value with Skill Set Optimization
This IDC Perspective provides a framework for senior IT leaders seeking to optimize the IT organization in the most effective and cost-conscious manner possible. The ability to implement this type of resource prioritization process requires modifying corporate culture and modifying various processes throughout a company — including employee performance and training, project management and budget tracking, and other internal functions."Employee skills optimization has the real potential to enhance IT efficiency and effectiveness while facilitating employee growth, increasing job satisfaction, and reducing employee attrition," notes Eric Bloom, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).
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- Executive Snapshot
- Situation Overview
- Importance of Optimizing Current Skills
- Employee Skills Optimization
- Skills Optimization Process Participation
- How to Achieve Employee Skills Optimization
- Step 1. Perform a Companywide Technology Skills Inventory
- Step 2. Create an Inventory of Employee Preferences, Characteristics, and Interests
- Step 3. Create Desired Employee Profiles for All Project and Operational Initiatives
- Step 4. Define, But Do Not Yet Implement, Needed Process Modifications
- Step 5. Create a Culture That Facilitates Fluid Employee Movement
- Step 6. Systematically Modify Existing Processes
- Step 7. Create an Employee and Position Matching Algorithms
- Step 8. Build Out Measurement and Metrics
- Advice for the Technology Leader
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- Related Research
- Synopsis
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