The European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) is gaining significant traction in Europe where it is being used to structure large scale training programs and to guide workforce development. We spoke with Margherita Bacigalupo about the approach she took to the design and development of this model and how her skill in UI and UX design helped her in this work.

Jessica Day from IdeaScale has helped many companies, governments and nonprofits introduce open innovation programs. We asked her about the skills needed for these programs and what organizations need to do to be successful with them.

Critical thinking has been identified as a critical skill in many different contexts. Just as important to design thinking is generative thinking, where new ideas are generated, opened up and explored. We spoke with design thinking thought leader GK vanPatter to get his insights into the importance of generative thinking.

It takes a community to drive innovation. Angie Schick and New Ventures BC are at the heart of the BC innovation community. We interviewed her to get insights into what makes that community tick and the skills needed for community building.

Job mobility will not be enough in a rapidly changing economy. We need to go beyond this to support career mobility. Dennis Green both exemplifies this in his own life and has thought deeply about the question. He shares his experience and ideas in this interview.

Brian Conlin has been an important advisor to Ibbaka Talent. As the former CEO of Golder Associates and a CEO coach himself he brings deep insight into the skills needed for success at employee owned enterprises.

Thealzel Lee is a connector, not just in the Vancouver innovation ecosystem, but between the fo-profit and non-profit sectors. She brings a richly diverse life experience to her work in innovation. One of her key insights is how silos are coming together in many ways to drive positive change.

Pieter Dorsman is a catalyst for the innovation economy in British Columbia. Over the past two decades he has made a major contribution to making innovation part of Vancouver’s culture. In this interview he talks about the importance of building a board for early and growth stage companies that acts like a team.

Jennifer Rogers is one of the leading practitioners of skill and competency management, having led roll outs for major companies in the energy and resource sector and having worked as a learning and development consultant. We interviewed her to get her view on the state of the art and the impact that skill and competency management can have on the organizations and individuals.

Olivier Aries has led change management, knowledge management and professional services at major consulting and product companies. In this wide ranging interview he talks about the skills needed for adaptation, the role of change management and some of the larger tensions in society that are shaping the future of work.

Eric Shepherd and Martin Belton from the Talent Transformation Guild discuss open competency models, the resilience-adaptation-efficiency cycle and the future of work with Ibbaka Co-Founder Steven Forth.

What skills do we need to understand the future? What skills will we need for the future? We reached out to Adi Yoffe, author of NEXT: A Manual for Disruption to get her insights into these important questions.

Harold Jarche has helped many organizations understand the nature of learning in the context of work and how to develop learning and collaboration networks. Ibbaka interviewed him at the end of June 2020 as Canada was emerging from the first phase of the Covid 19 pandemic.

What pricing skills do product managers need? What skills do pricing experts need to work effectively with product management? Ibbaka spoke with product management expert Alan Albert to understand how to make the partnership between pricing and product management more effective.