Design thinking is a compelling way to bring more creativity to business problem solving. Ibbaka is offering a pilot program that will support you with testing design thinking in your own culture and environment. Get access to the Ibbaka Talent platform, shape a design thinking competency model to your business, get coaching on a project team.

The perception of time plays tricks with us. If there is nothing significant to record in the memory, the time subjectively shrinks. Routine blurs everything into one, difficult to cope with passage. The research shows that even a single small change to the routine will impact the overall perception of time. How about starting a Skill Profile on Ibbaka Talent?

In a world that moves faster and faster, do we have the patience to find the bright side of waiting? When "amazon-next-day-delivery" is a standard, four days seems like an eternity. Can one survive for four days without the Internet? Patience is a critical skill. The patience to wait and give thoughts, designs, people and relationships the time they need.

Curiosity is a natural and universal capacity that we all share especially when we are young. First, it helps to understand the world around us - later, it helps to empathize, define and prototype. The steps are present in the Design Thinking process, but as we go through those phases, we need to be aware of the actual thinking process. It is again, a curiosity that makes us pull the curtain and have a peek at the inner workings of our brain.

Range by David Epstein and my son's high school graduation inspired this post. The focus is on how to make better choices early in one’s career path, or rather, that we should try to broaden our knowledge base and sample everything we can.

Visual skills are important to many design disciplines. Are visual thinking skills and visual communication skills the same thing?

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.

Open Competency Models will change how we create and share information about our skills and abilities. Many different architectures will be needed and they will evolve over time, but we need a starting point, a seed crystal so to speak. Here is the framework we are exploring.

On Wednesday, November 27 we will be having a co-creation session for open competency models for Customer Success and Pricing Expertise. Join us if you can.

Co-creation is one-way open competency models are open. On Nov. 27 we will have a Meetup on the co-creation of competency models for customer success & pricing.

Dr. Robin Cox is leading the development of the Adaptation to Climate Change Open Competency Model. In this interview, she discusses the motivations and impacts.

The design of competency models is a team sport. TeamFit worked with ReliencebyDesign on the use cases & architecture of the Adaptation to Climate Change model.

Why it is important to see a bird-eye view of a Competency Model.