Informal Signature: PlanningForUnpredictableCompetencyNeeds

{PlanningForUnpredictableCompetencyNeeds}

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Problem	The company should be able to plan for unpredictable competency needs.
Context	In a deregulated ESI market, future competency needs are less predictable. This means that ad-hoc needs, such as new customer needs, urgent project needs, replacement of lost key competence and needs due to other external ad-hoc influences, cannot all be predicted in the strategic business plans.
Forces	Too much planning may hinder creativity. A lack of flexibility will hamper the potential for growth into new markets. Some decisions in the ESI sector are dictated by the state, which are difficult to anticipate.
Solution	Create a process with information support that will quickly analyse competency needs and match the needs with available competence within and outside the organisation. This implies the following actions: defining the competency needs analyse available competency within your own organisational unit identify need for new competency take action to supply the needed competency search for known available competency externally, outside your own organisational unit extend the search to new sources re-negotiate the business contract and create emergency plans to develop new competency create feedback for next year's strategic planning

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Rationale It is necessary to explicitly describe the way in which these situations need to be dealt with, so that there will be high quality solutions each time.

Consequences The company gains increased flexibility in its dealing with competency issues which leads to quick and effective acquisition and winding up of the required competence.

Authors Vattenfall AB, KTH, Sweden.

Related Patterns Change process patterns
This pattern is a subpattern of: StructuredCompetencyManagementRoutines
This pattern is related to: Co-ordinatedCompetencyDevelopment
Product patterns
This pattern is related to: CompetencyPlanningLevels
This pattern is related to: BusinessAreaHumanResourcePlanning
This pattern is related to: AvailableCompetency
This pattern is related to: PersonnelStatistics
This pattern is related to: CompetencyNeedsAndAvailabilityIndicators

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Rationale	It is necessary to explicitly describe the way in which these situations need to be dealt with, so that there will be high quality solutions each time.
Consequences	The company gains increased flexibility in its dealing with competency issues which leads to quick and effective acquisition and winding up of the required competence.
Authors	Vattenfall AB, KTH, Sweden.
Related Patterns	Change process patterns This pattern is a subpattern of: StructuredCompetencyManagementRoutines This pattern is related to: Co-ordinatedCompetencyDevelopment Product patterns This pattern is related to: CompetencyPlanningLevels This pattern is related to: BusinessAreaHumanResourcePlanning This pattern is related to: AvailableCompetency This pattern is related to: PersonnelStatistics This pattern is related to: CompetencyNeedsAndAvailabilityIndicators
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Known Applications	Vattenfall AB, Sweden
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