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Competency of the workforce of an enterprise is one of the key factors for success of the enterprise. Workforce capability and performance is a function of competencies and their application to tasks as demanded by the organization. Therefore the innovations, products and services, customer management and other functions demand razor sharp competencies among the employees. Despite concurrence that employee competence is vital, organisations worldwide pay significantly lesser attention and focus to holistic competence development.

The Non-academic Learning Interventions (NLI) must be focused on reducing the Knowledge-Skills-Attributes (KSA) gaps leading to Continuous Improvement and Overall Development of Self (CI-ODS). Such a method requires a systemic framework to identify gaps, SWOTs, prioritize Learning Interventions, monitor the effectiveness and ensure that the learning produces the required improvement.

VipiX HCM (Human Capital Management)

Human Capital Management is the answer to holistic Competency Mapping and is a function of KCM framework applied to the industry. The stakeholders are illustrated in the figure below. Each stakeholder has a set of vital requirements from other stakeholders. VipiX HCM is a framework that systemically captures requirements, Core-Key-Soft Skills (CKS) inventories, analyses them in real time to arrive at Gaps, SWOTs, Prioritized Learning Interventions, CI-ODS maps and determines Learning Indices and Fitment Indices to current job functions, lateral job functions (Job Rotation) and elevated job functions (Promotions and Succession Plans).

Every employee will be able to build comprehensive Dynamic Maps and showcase CKS inventory. The Analytics Engine provides Gap Charts, SWOTs, prioritized Learning Interventions and CI-ODS maps. The Supervisor will be able to plan the Employee Development initiatives based on prioritized needs and can build Workgroup Competency Spectrum to create benchmarks, identify Star Performers and manage the work functions most efficiently.

A lot of time, money, and efforts are put into Employee Learning Interventions in most enterprises and a majority of them acknowledge that they can’t measure the effectiveness of such programs. VipiX HCM offers a comprehensive Return on Learning Investments (RoLI) engine that provides the management a dashboard to monitor the effectiveness of Learning Investments and returns.

Management can build Competency Pyramid of the enterprise that represents the distribution of Competency levels in the entire workforce. The pyramid could have any number of levels depending on the model and it also gives a snapshot of how the enterprise must plan Competency Progression across the enterprise. These pyramids are available for the workforce, for business units or departments.

External Training Partners (ETP) firms can assist in focused talent development and reduce the gaps in CKS of employees. Employees and ETP firms will be better aligned through intelligently synchronized dashboards.