Assessment of People in Operations
Why is skills assessment important?
To achieve your targets, you need the right people, with the right skills. Moreover, the skill set has grown from process administration, to supplier identification and negotiation, and now to network management. The skills focus is therefore shifting from hard skills to soft skills, as businesses need people with leadership capacities, the ability to take initiative, drive people and projects, communicate and make decisions. This evolution in skills requirements represents a significant change in the respective profiles and skills of an existing organization.
What are the skills of your organization? Do you have the right people? Are they trained in the core competencies you require to achieve today's ambitious targets, and tomorrow's challenges?
Big Fish Assessor
Big Fish has developed unique assessment tools and a proven approach to address the unique needs of different Purchasing, Procurement, and Supplier Management organizations
- Identification of core profiles
- Target setting
- Development of the assessment methodology, face to face or on line
- Result analysis and recommendations
Case Studies
Global USA Headquartered FMCG
- Scope: 1000 people
- Approach: Identification of core skills and profiles with a multinational project team. Development of an online questionnaire testing hard and soft skills but also company message, activities, etc.
- Countries: 50
- Languages: 7, English, French, Canadian French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Chinese
- Project Duration: 4 months
- Result: Evaluation of the skill buildup requirements across 12 profiles
- New focus on soft skills development
European Purchasing team of Paris based Service Company
- Scope: 25 people
- Approach: Face to face interviews with representative members of the organization to identify long term needs and potential gaps. Development of a questionnaire to prepare a corporate event.
- Countries: 1
- Languages: 1, English
- Project Duration: 1 months
- Result: Instant picture of team strengths and weaknesses to launch a Purchasing Leadership event and a three year long skill buildup program
- Identification of core competenties to reinforce