Implementing SFIA and professional communities of practice.

• How do you exploit skills frameworks like SFIA to improve workforce performance & productivity?
• Is there a method you can follow from those organisations who have done it before?
• Would you benefit from talking to someone who has proven success in this field?
• Do you want to achieve the business benefits of communities of practice quickly?
• Are you struggling to know where to start?
• Are you frustrated by the lack of formal methodologies and tools available to help you?

My Experience

I am a specialist in developing the capability of Business Change & IT organisations and I am a recognised expert in implementing skills frameworks and developing communities of practice.

MBA qualified with over 20 years experience advising major IT, financial services and professional services organisations in the UK. My style is to work collaboratively and to coach and motivate internal teams in order to bring about sustainable change.

I have operational and strategic experience of implementing SFIA over a 5 year period at Norwich Union. Norwich Union is a large, complex multi-site organisation with c.1500 professional staff across varied disciplines and skills. We utilized SFIA as one of the components needed to implement a significant transformation in the workforce including outsourcing & off-shoring, redundancies, recruitment, up-skilling, re-skilling, productivity improvement and cost savings.

I led the implementation of the Business Analysis and Consulting practice and went on to head up all seven professional practices including Project Management, IT Design & Architecture and Testing.

I was invited to speak at the SFIA UK Capability Management conference in 2007 to share my experience with 200 IT leaders across the UK – in particular the implementation of professional communities of practices.

I am now an Independent Consultant specialising in Human Capital Management with a focus on IT organisations. I advise organisations on getting the most out of SFIA and also on the implementation of professional communities of practice. I have also coached and mentored a number of professionals who are new into a role of leading professional communities of practice.

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