SMART Organizational Assessments: Though interactive assessments and automated gap analysis, an organization can determine its direction and work to meet their business initiatives and technology goals.
Assessments geared for organizational and project readiness across multiple technology platforms or proprietary solutions. Our team works with your company to define, validate, assess, and build an effective education solution for your people. The SMART Organizational Assessment process positions the right education for your needs. (scroll down for more information)
CareerBooster Personalized Assessments - Take your personalized skills assessment relative to a course of interest, a class you have registered for, a technology or office platform, or even a certification.
Problem Definition Companies today are faced with many challenges:
The continual challenge of if and when they should be moving to new technologies. They are further challenged by the impact to their organization these technologies present and ability for the return on their investments. Organizations are then challenged with assessing their current positions in moving to these new platforms and in providing accurate training development plans based on the right training for the right needs.
A retiring workforce and preparing for future buiness needs.
Positioning career development initiatives and managing the progress of their people.
Aligning training to business needs.
Identifying the skills they have within their organization and utilizing this effectively.
Identifying an organization's skills gap and aligning accurate education opportunities.
SMART's Solution for Developing an Organizational and/or Project Based Assessment.
The SMART tool provides a simplistic means through interactive assessments and automated gap analysis in building developmental plans for an organization in meeting their technology and/or softskill requirements and direction. In support of our tool, our process includes the following major steps and deliverables:
The SMART Tool
The SMART tool is an application that uses predefined and/or your own proprietary skills dictionaries that align to an organization`s supporting roles. Mappings then exist from each skill to related education solutions at a modular level. User assessments performed against these skills, provides an organization with an analysis on skill gaps and specific education requirements. This in turn provides a tool to utilize for assessing an organization’s requirements that can then be mapped to specific solutions in helping a company move more effectively within new and existing platforms.
Core Components
The SMART tool itself is broken down into two primary components. The first component is an SQL Database structure housing all the tables, views, and relationships in support of the system. This Database structure is hosted by New Horizons of Georgia and is supported under Microsoft SQL 2000.
The second component is the graphical front-end system. The front-end system is Visual Studio .NET based and also hosted by New Horizons of Georgia to allow for easy access for end-user assessments at their site and for administrative reporting.
Skill Dictionaries
The SMART tool is populated with the necessary skills and roles mapping to the technology and education you are looking to assess. Some examples include: Microsoft Windows 2000/2003, XP, Active Directory, Visual Studio .NET, Sharepoint Server, SMS, Content Management Server, Biztalk, Commerce Server, ISA, Mobile Information Server, Host Integration Server, Application Center, Office XP, CISCO, Project Management and Exchange.
SMART's Solution for Developing your own Personalized Career Track. CareerBooster provides a simplistic means through interactive assessments and automated gap analysis in building personalized career plans for yourself in meeting technology, business, and/or soft skill requirements. CareerBooster tool is a simple way to build personalized career plans in meeting technology, project management, and soft skills, through interactive assessments and automated gap analysis.
As the first step of the learning cycle, assessments are a vital part in ensuring you accomplish a high training Return On Investment (ROI). More specifically, assessments help you as a student, training coordinator, project manager, or CXO to determine the skills already possessed and those that should be developed further.
Utilizing our assessments will help you determine the best education relative to the skills you want to gain as well as minimize deployment risks by ensuring you have the needed skills to accomplish the tasks at hand. In addition, assessments help training coordinators and managers realize the full potential of their people and to capitalize on their investment.
After the assessment process is completed, your customized learning plan will be created including instructor-led classroom training, instructor-led online learning, self-paced online learning, books and more.
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