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  • The Baseline Skills Assessment is highly flexible while at the same time very rigorous and methodical

  • Individual personnel are evaluated against a sophisticated matrix of relevant skills for their discipline

  • The knowledge of individual personnel is evaluated and ranked against peers nationally and locally

  • Groups are assessed for skills mixes and capabilities relative to their current and projected responsibilities

  • The methodology allows upper management to compare line management's perspective with objective data and to normalize assessments across groups

  • Your high performers and potential superstars with high learning abilities will be objectively identified

  • Targeted for individuals at the highest technical level, an optional Architecture Review extends testing from the technical realm into the business realm by further challenging participants to create solutions that address specific business related problems

The Baseline Skills Assessment is a flexible program designed to be more rigorous and methodical than is typical in either a technical hiring process or during ongoing management of technical personnel.

The foundation of our Baseline Skills Assessment is the Skills Matrices we have developed and refined over the course of many years and thousands of assessments of technical individuals. These matrices address the skills and abilities required of the most junior-level to the most senior-level individual across most disciplines within the IT space.

We use our experience to identify the appropriate level of talent required for a given function or team, and rigorously assess each individual against the required level to understand strengths and skills gaps and come up with appropriate remediation plans. Additionally, we provide our clients with an understanding of how individuals in their team and their team as a whole ranks against peers in the industry.

Our methodology is consistently applied across the various disciplines of concern and allows us to provide upper-management with objective and normalized insight into the talents, deficiencies, gaps, untapped value, and overlaps across their organization.

Finally, through this process you receive an unbiased perspective identifying those top performers who would benefit most from investment in their development because of their ability to learn quickly and diversely apply knowledge.

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Relevant Case Studies

Case Study 1: Integrating an Acquisition

Case Study 2: Enterprise Distributed Desktop Support


Related Documents

The Case for Staff Assessments (PDF)

Baseline Skills Assessment Datasheet (PDF)

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