The Sfiaplus International Skills and Competency Framework aims to equip IT organizations with the necessary skills for current and future challenges. It offers services such as organizational design, skills mapping, and talent management while providing a visual representation of IT career pathways to enhance professional development. Clients have reported benefits including proactive career ownership, reduced vendor costs, and tailored talent management solutions.

1. SFIAplus
International skills and competency
framework

2. SFIAplus - international skills and competency
framework
Ensure you have the skills for your IT
organization now and in the future

3. How can BCS help?
• Organizational design
• Skills mapping and
profiling
• Talent management
• IT career pathways
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4. Why do we need to change?
We need to address the major challenges faced by our industry:
Adam Thilthorpe
BCS Director of IT Professionalism
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5. Organizational design
• Translate business requirements into
technical solutions
• Benchmark IT against industry best
practice
• Provide a consistent language and
methodology
• Resource management
• Ensure right people are placed in the
right role
• Measure organizational & departmental
skills gaps
• Capture technical and behavioral skills
and capabilities
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6. Skills mapping and profiling
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7. Skills mapping and profiling
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8. Skills mapping and profiling
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9. Skills mapping and profiling
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10. Talent management
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11. IT career pathways
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12. IT career pathways
• Visual representation of a career path framework for each IT job family
• Illustrates how you can progress your career in a particular subject
• Summarizes the characteristics and development needs that support your career
• Illustrates how certification supports career development, showing progression through
the SFIAplus levels and alignment with BCS membership grades
• Illustrates the potential career progression you can make in your career
• Ability to align the internal levels and salary grades of the client to SFIAplus
• Indicates the transitions you can make between different areas in IT, depending on your
skills and experience
• Maps to industry recommended training & development
• Maps to the learning catalogue of the client
• Recognizes the importance of certification and experience, and provides a high level
alignment with SFIAplus and the Institute’s membership grades
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13. Client feedback
‘Access to SFIAplus has made our professionals think
proactively about their own professional
development. We don’t want to tell our people how
to develop themselves, so the willingness to do so
needs to come from them. If they show initiative
and take proactive ownership of their own career
path, we’ll support them at every step’.
Ian Tutts, Head of Research and Development-Sage
‘The most unanticipated benefit to Colt since
implementing SFIAplus is the reduction in vendor
resource costs. ‘We ask contractors and suppliers
to benchmark themselves against the framework
ensuring consistency of skills and expertise. For
the first time we can accurately compare the rates
we are paying for resource and, as a result, our
costs are reduced by 30%.’
Chris Hewertson, CIO, Colt
‘SFIAplus offered the flexibility to tailor roles to the
specific needs of our customers. We now have a basis
in which to build future talent management
programmes…. Standardizing some of the roles in
our company proved difficult at times. However
SFIAplus offered the flexibility to tailor roles to the
specific needs of our customers.’
Gene Bernier, Director of Integrated Solutions
Delivery-Kimberly Clark
‘The Framework enables our people to identify the
skills and capabilities that would be required for
any future role they would like to pursue…..the
credibility of the Institute’s badge – that label of
industry best practice – meant that our Career
Framework was easily accepted….In terms of
relevant scope, and in terms of geographical
uptake, we have found nothing similar to SFIAplus’
Daryl Beck Director of IT Academy-Unilever
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