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BCS SFIAplus Progress John Gwynne Professional
Development Services Manager
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Background

• BCS has been developing and deploying the
  Industry Structure Model (ISM) since 1986
• First paper based, later deployed as a software
  product from 1996 onwards
• Over 1200 copies sold
• Incorporated in company HR processes, pay and
  grading systems
• Basis for accredited BCS Career Development
  Framework

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Alignment of ISM with SFIA

• Significant material from ISM incorporated in
  SFIA
• BCS decision to align ISM with SFIA taken in 2003
  to avoid confusion between similar SFIA v2 and
  ISM3.3
• Result
• SFIAplus aligned terminology, level numbering
• SFIAplus is the what of SFIA with added how
  detail

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Why SFIAplus?

• ISM experience was that skills frameworks alone
  are little use without tools to aid deployment
• Each of 79 SFIAplus Skills are defined by
• Up to 7 levels of Task (251 total)
• 228 sets of
• Background
• Work Activities
• Knowledge Skills
• Training Activities
• Professional Development Activities
• Qualifications
• The multi dimensional and highly detailed nature
  of SFIAplus makes tool support a must

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Browse SFIAplus

• SFIAplus introduced browser delivery
• Accessible to all BCS members
• Easy access to
• Skill Resources
• Generic Level Descriptions
• Skill-specific detail
• Central hosting means feedback can be gathered
  and updates applied regularly
• Developed with software partners Infobasis

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BCS Career Builder
Professional Development for Individuals

• Web hosted tool deploying SFIAplus to BCS members
• Carry out CPD activities
• Replaces paper-based CPD activity from 2005
• Personal Job Description creation tool
• Set Development Objectives
• Monitor activity over development cycles
• Final-year students, AMBCS, MBCS, CITP, FBCS
• 1200 users enrolled since May 2004

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Professional Experience Record

• New product aimed at individual contractors and
  consultants
• Launching January 2003
• Enables participants to demonstrate competence
  for a Contract based upon experience rather than
  by writing creative CVs
• Capture skills and experience in a structured and
  consistent fashion by benchmarking them against
  SFIAplus framework
• Experience is verified by their clients and
  supervisors
• Also can be used to set and track professional
  development activity (CPD)

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BCS Skills Manager

• Corporate Skills Management Product
• Identify and manage skills across teams and
  departments
• Measure people skills against SFIAplus
• Create Corporate Job Descriptions
• Build Job Descriptions from SFIAPlus and bespoke
  components
• Analyse people skills against organisation need
  and SFIAplus
• Skills gap-analysis
• Hosted or intranet deployment
• Centrally managed
• Web enabled
• Cost-effective

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BCS Career Developer

• Corporate Professional Development Product
• Manage and Develop skills across teams and
  departments
• Build job descriptions using SFIAplus
• Assess skill requirements against SFIAplus
• Create Corporate Job Descriptions
• Set training and development goals to meet
  corporate needs
• Schemes can be accredited by the BCS
• Accelerated route to BCS Membership

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Conclusion

• SFIAplus adds HOW detail to the WHAT structure of
  the SFIA framework
• BCS have built SFIAplus into real business tools
• Skills Management
• Skills and Career Development
• Personal progression
• Demonstration