In last month's column, I presented a series of five IT Competency questions, and promised I'd answer them this month. If your company determined the new version of Windows offered compelling new ...

We're entering an era where, especially regarding Microsoft, things will change a lot more, and much faster. Some of those changes will be massive, mind-altering and disruptive -- and you'll need to ...

Every engineer deserves a clear growth path so they can understand, plan, and execute on meaningful career growth. Providing a framework for this growth (we call ours a competency matrix; it’s also ...

In my time at McKinsey, one of the associate partners once said, “Our client may have the knowledge, but we have the skill — specifically, the problem-solving skill — to overcome the knowledge barrier ...

The technical skills that earned you a seat at the table won't earn you a voice at the table. A new set of skills is essential for high-level IT success. A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation ...

Lawyers have been accused of spending too much time undertaking basic IT tasks and not enough time lawyering, says Damian Blackburn In recent years, lawyers have seen a huge amount of changes to their ...

Among the set of schools tagged competency education, for example, only 47 percent report having a competency framework that defines what proficiency looks like at each performance level. Second, some ...