Welcome to SMART
Problem Definition
Companies today are faced with many challenges:
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The continual challenge of if and when they should be moving to new
technologies. They are further challenged by the impact
to their organization these technologies present and ability for the return on
their investments. Organizations are then challenged with assessing their
current positions in moving to these new platforms and in providing accurate
training development plans based on the right training for the right needs.
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A retiring workforce and preparing for future business needs.
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Positioning career development initiatives and managing the progress
of their people.
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Aligning training to business needs .
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Identifying the skills they have within their organization and
utilizing this effectively.
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Identifying an organization's skills gap and aligning accurate
education opportunities.
SMART's Solution for Developing an Organizational and/or Project Based
Assessment.
The SMART tool provides a simplistic means through interactive
assessments and automated gap analysis in building developmental plans for an
organization in meeting their technology and/or softskill requirements and
direction. In support of our tool, our process includes the following major
steps and deliverables:
The
Process to Solution
The following process outlines our workflow in helping organizations
determine their education needs.
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Work with organization to determine the technologies within their supporting
roles needing assessment.
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Initiate setup of the SMART tool
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Load appropriate skills dictionaries
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Obtain employee listing and populate the SMART database.
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Map employees to their respective organizational groups
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Communicate and submit assessment to the organization for employee skill level
rating.
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Run reports to determine organizational gaps within skillset requirements.
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Run reports to list training recommendations for each employee as well as the
organization as a whole in developing custom education solutions.
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Facilitate training requirements.
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Reassess an organization to confirm education levels have been met.
The SMART Tool
The SMART tool is an application that uses predefined and/or your own proprietary
skills dictionaries that align to an organization`s supporting roles. Mappings
then exist from each skill to related education solutions at a modular level.
User assessments performed against these skills, provides an organization with
an analysis on skill gaps and specific education requirements. This in turn
provides a tool to utilize for assessing an organization’s requirements that
can then be mapped to specific solutions in helping a company move more
effectively within new and existing platforms.
Core
Components
The SMART tool itself is broken down into two primary components. The first
component is an SQL Database structure housing all the tables, views, and
relationships in support of the system. This Database structure is hosted and
supported under Microsoft SQL 2005.
The second component is the graphical front-end system. The front-end system is
Visual Studio .NET based to allow for easy access for end-user assessments at their site
and for administrative reporting.
Skill
Dictionaries
The SMART tool is populated with the necessary skills and roles mapping to the
technology and education you are looking to assess. Some examples include:
Microsoft Windows 2003/2008, XP/Vista, Active Directory, Visual Studio .NET,
Sharepoint Server, PowerShell, SMS, Content Management Server, Biztalk, Citrix,
ISA, Mobile Information Server, Host Integration Server, Application Center,
Office XP, CISCO, Project Management and Exchange.
Ask about adding MeasureUp Objective Assessments to your skills definition.
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