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Roles and Skills

A2

Determine accountability for knowledge asset management activities, along with requisite employee skills and obligations.

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Roles and Skills at each level of maturity.

1Initial
  • Practice
    No practices for KAM roles and skills at this level.
    Outcome
    Limited understanding of roles and skills requirements.
    Metric
    No metrics.
2Basic
  • Practice
    Identify a basic list of KAM roles and skills requirements at department level.
    Outcome
    List of skill requirements is identified.
    Metric
    # of role requirements identified. # of skills requirements identified.
  • Practice
    Assign an experienced team of experts to develop KAM taxonomy of skills.
    Outcome
    Team of experts assigned.
    Metric
    # of experts in the team with knowledge of required KAM skills. Frequency of team meetings (# of meetings per week).
  • Practice
    Develop a KAM taxonomy of skills to assist HR with skills selection requirements for different KAM jobs.
    Outcome
    KAM taxonomy of skills is developed.
    Metric
    Yes/No indicators confirming existence of KAM taxonomy of skills. # of skills included in taxonomy. % of specific skills matched to KAM jobs, based on use of taxonomy. % of skill selections completed, based on use of taxonomy.
3Intermediate
  • Practice
    Identify and evaluate specialist KAM roles within different organisation functions.
    Outcome
    Specialist KAM roles identified.
    Metric
    # of specialist KAM roles identified. # of evaluation rounds.
  • Practice
    Assign specialist KAM roles.
    Outcome
    Specialist KAM roles assigned.
    Metric
    # of specialist KAM roles assigned.
4Advanced
  • Practice
    Approve KAM taxonomy of skills at enterprise level.
    Outcome
    Approved KAM taxonomy of skills.
    Metric
    Yes/No indicator confirming approval of KAM taxonomy of skills
  • Practice
    Improve KAM taxonomy of skills with ongoing job fulfilments.
    Outcome
    Improved KAM taxonomy of skills.
    Metric
    Frequency of ongoing job fulfilments (% per year). Yes/no indicators confirming improvement of KAM taxonomy of skills.
  • Practice
    Establish job training and performance evaluations to improve novice skills.
    Outcome
    Novice skills improved through training and performance evaluation initiatives.
    Metric
    Frequency of job training sessions. Frequency of performance evaluations. % of novice skills successfully trained. % of novice skills improved through training.
  • Practice
    Ensure performance of assigned and trained roles meets expectations in some parts of the organisation.
    Outcome
    Performance of assigned and trained roles meets expectations in some parts of the organisation.
    Metric
    # of organisation areas with assigned and trained roles. Frequency of performance evaluation on assigned and trained roles fulfilments (# per year). % of assigned and trained roles meeting expectations.
  • Practice
    Align assigned roles and employee skills with the HR department's skills retention and rewards schemes.
    Outcome
    Alignment is achieved.
    Metric
    Yes/No indicator confirming alignment.
5Optimized
  • Practice
    Continuously monitor skill requirements, skill standards, job fulfilment, performance areas, and criteria for skills evaluation.
    Outcome
    Monitoring initiatives in place and taxonomy of skills is enhanced.
    Metric
    Frequency of monitoring initiatives. Yes/No confirming enhancement of taxonomy of skills. % KAM skill requests. % increase in skills standards per department. # of improved versions of criteria for skills evaluation.
  • Practice
    Continuously improve education and training programs for roles and skills, and use "learning by doing" approaches across the enterprise.
    Outcome
    Continuous improvement of education and training is in place.
    Metric
    Frequency of optimisation of the "learning by doing" approaches (# of quarterly reviews in 1–2 years). Frequency of education/training programs (# per year). % success rate of the education and training programs (based on % of improved roles and skills).