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Capability Academies and/or more?

By Impactful | 12 Sep, 2023
IT Capability Academies and workforce skills development

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Lewis Taylor highlights how skills shortages threaten organisations’ ability to meet customer needs. He identifies the following key challenges:

"By 2025, 90% of enterprises will be affected by IT skills shortages, costing approximately $6.5 trillion globally."

Over recent months, I have researched IT Capability Academies. LRMG’s IT Talent Management team has developed academies in cybersecurity, machine learning, robotic process automation, data science and cloud computing. These programmes focus on future-ready technical and behavioural skills.

I do, however, want to pause and pose a few other important questions.

When shopping, we usually consider what to buy and how much we need. Yet, few things are more frustrating than getting home and discovering we forgot an item.

Building skills is the same. Do you know how many of what you need? A crucial part of this question is: Have you quantified what you think you have?

Within the LRMG IT Talent DigitalCampus IT team, we can help you answer some of these crucial questions. Yes, we can provide you with the vehicle, Capability Academies, to build your talent pool, but we can also assist you with more. IT Staffing Diagnostics and Benchmarks will allow you to clarify the skills that you actually have versus the skills that you actually need. This will ultimately help you to limit the threat of not having the required skills. 

Furthermore, we can assist you through role definition, competency frameworks, job descriptions and grading, as well as rewards benchmarking to ensure that you can keep the right skills. We can, through industry-aligned technical IT skills assessments and proficiency reviews, measure the depth of your skills. 

With all this information that we’ve gathered, we can ensure that Capability Academies are in line with the desired outcome of having enough of the right skills at the right time. Over the next few weeks, I will be posting a number of articles to expand on the areas mentioned in this post. 

The LRMG group of companies specialises in igniting the high performance of people. We have a 25-year track record in partnering with high-consequence industries.
Pieter Nel

Pieter Nel

Executive Head: LRMG IT Talent

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