Comments on: Manpower & skills survey http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/ Information Technology industry commentary and reviews Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Mark Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:22:17 +0000 http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/#comment-192 Blog, I believe it is just as important to know what the demands are of our target market. Doing this in line with learning about the city's competencies will allow us to align the two environments (internal and external) more effectively. To merely understand our city's competencies is insufficient. Any promotional activity based solely on that will have a lesser chance of succeeding than a promotion based on what we know about ourselves as well as what we know about our target market. However, I agree with you that the skills survey shouldn't wait until the requirements of the market is known. That's too inefficient. Drawing on strategic planning literature and practice, internal environment analysis (strengths and weaknesses) as well as external environment analysis (threats and opportunities) are best--and should be--done hand in hand because a) one provides insights on the analysis of the other and vise versa and b) these two are necessary in the strategy formulation and selection activity. On the other hand, this further increases the resource requirements on ICT Davao (or whoever is responsible for this environment analysis). Then again, I would imagine that the pay-off would make the endeavor more than worth it. Regarding the issue that you raised about how best to approach this study, perhaps we can use some of the tools of strategic planning as a starting point. Namely: PEST analysis; Value Chain; IFE; EFE; QSPM; etc. I wouldn't recommend using them immediately though since they might be designed exclusively for corporations (I say "might" because I haven't had the chance to use it in a context outside a corporate entity). Rather, I'm recommending them as a starting point. Perhaps they will lead you to analysis frameworks and tools that are better suited for the job at hand. Also, Michael E. Porter's work titled "The Competitive Advantage of Nations" may provide some insights. Blog, I believe it is just as important to know what the demands are of our target market. Doing this in line with learning about the city’s competencies will allow us to align the two environments (internal and external) more effectively. To merely understand our city’s competencies is insufficient. Any promotional activity based solely on that will have a lesser chance of succeeding than a promotion based on what we know about ourselves as well as what we know about our target market.

However, I agree with you that the skills survey shouldn’t wait until the requirements of the market is known. That’s too inefficient. Drawing on strategic planning literature and practice, internal environment analysis (strengths and weaknesses) as well as external environment analysis (threats and opportunities) are best–and should be–done hand in hand because a) one provides insights on the analysis of the other and vise versa and b) these two are necessary in the strategy formulation and selection activity.

On the other hand, this further increases the resource requirements on ICT Davao (or whoever is responsible for this environment analysis). Then again, I would imagine that the pay-off would make the endeavor more than worth it.

Regarding the issue that you raised about how best to approach this study, perhaps we can use some of the tools of strategic planning as a starting point. Namely: PEST analysis; Value Chain; IFE; EFE; QSPM; etc. I wouldn’t recommend using them immediately though since they might be designed exclusively for corporations (I say “might” because I haven’t had the chance to use it in a context outside a corporate entity). Rather, I’m recommending them as a starting point. Perhaps they will lead you to analysis frameworks and tools that are better suited for the job at hand. Also, Michael E. Porter’s work titled “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” may provide some insights.

]]> By: Blogie http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Blogie Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:18:01 +0000 http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/#comment-182 That's a start. Actually I have been able to get data from CHED before, and they were very helpful. But again, this endeavor must be approached with a plan already on hand. It's going to take more than just going to a data repository and asking for printouts or soft copies. Like I said, hoop old boy, we must know what data will be relevant. And besides, I believe it is imperative for the industry to generate fresh data, not just glean from existing databases, which are sure to be outdated anyway, or too disorganized. That’s a start. Actually I have been able to get data from CHED before, and they were very helpful. But again, this endeavor must be approached with a plan already on hand. It’s going to take more than just going to a data repository and asking for printouts or soft copies. Like I said, hoop old boy, we must know what data will be relevant. And besides, I believe it is imperative for the industry to generate fresh data, not just glean from existing databases, which are sure to be outdated anyway, or too disorganized.

]]> By: hoop http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-181 hoop Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:00:11 +0000 http://www.ittalks.net/2007/04/09/manpower-skills-survey/#comment-181 I think you could go to CHED XI and ask for their data on graduates... i went their last year :D Shouldn't be that difficult because they're your neighbors *snicker* I think you could go to CHED XI and ask for their data on graduates… i went their last year :D

Shouldn’t be that difficult because they’re your neighbors *snicker*

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