Insights on workforce planning, job mapping, and community technology leadership
Capabilities and Their Development
Capabilities represent the developed and inherent characteristics of people to get things done. Understanding how they develop is key to workforce planning.
Customer Value and the Value Chain
Customer value and purpose are two sides of the same coin. The value chain describes the full range of business functions and how they create customer value.
The Executive Function: Three Essential Elements
The executive function aligns activities and resources with values. Three essential elements define effective organizational leadership.
How (and Why) to Plan Workforce 2
Everyone should plan workforce to get the capabilities you need to succeed. It leads to more effective organizations with better paid individuals.
Do You Plan Your Workforce?
Everyone who works is part of the workforce. Workforce planning impacts every one of us, yet most organizations don't do it.
Why Everyone Should Do Workforce Planning
Every organization should implement workforce planning. Personnel represent critical organizational assets, and strategic resource allocation is essential.
Mapping Jobs to Close the Skills Gap
Job-mapping is an innovative methodology for forecasting workforce demands with input from people directly involved in the work.
Chattanooga Startup Launches Job-Mapping
Eduity provides an innovative, free, and easy-to-use tool for identifying employers' workforce needs.
On Smartness
Multiple forms of smartness exist in today's economy. Smart behavior considers, enables, and supports others.
Eduity Alpha-Version Launches!
Eduity announces the first step toward radically better workforce planning with a free, easy-to-use tool for employers.
Job Mapping
In an era of rapid changes in business and technology, having the right skills in the right place at the right time is essential.
Developing Community Technology Leadership
Those places that do the most with technology will be the winners in the digital economy. That's where technology leadership is critical.
Lessons from (Re)Starting Eduity: Simplify
Simplifying has always been my personal challenge as a big-picture, strategic thinker. The trick is to follow the value chain to its engine.
Lessons from (Re)Starting Eduity: Focus on Functionality
Focus on functionality ties the product to the problem. What is this thing supposed to do? What problem does it solve?
Lessons from (Re)Starting Eduity: A Problem and a Product
Start with a problem, then create a product. Don't start with a cool name, URL, logo, legal entity. Start with a real problem.