1 Company Confidential SkillsNET Plans and Activities ® Michael L. Brown, Founder & CEO SkillsNET Enterprises, Ltd. OOA, Human Resources Oxford, England October 11, 2007

2 Company Confidential SkillsNET Overview Founded in 1996 Headquarters: Waxahachie, Texas 500% 3 year revenue growth % three year CAGR Core Business: Web Assisted JTA SkillObject ® Technology Standards and Framework Formation Cox business school 2006 Top 100 Dallas Entrepreneur Awards 2006 Awardees Fasting Growing Companies in America #270 Innovation: Web-Based JTA 11 Patents Pending Accredited Standards and Frameworks Largest Known Occupational Database Task, KSAs, Resources For 3,000 jobs NSOL

3 Company Confidential IEEE Public Infrastructure Plans – The Journey

4 Company Confidential Skill and Competency Common Framework Substantial ROI Value Add Build once, use many, change often Why Standards are important! D-SCOR Framework Public Infrastructure Plans – User Education

5 Company Confidential Public Infrastructure Plans – User Education

6 Company Confidential 1.Occupational Skills Ontology 2.IEEE Skills and Competency Study Groups 3.Defense Skill and Competency Open Resource (D-SCOR) Framework 4.Germany and Austria Skills Formation and Learning Demand Signal System. 5.Universal Skills and Competency Lexicon and category classification 6.Global Living public and private laboratories 7.Open Source Standard and Framework Integration and Solution Models Public Infrastructure Plans

7 Company Confidential Activities: OS Ontology Essential Skill Element to support people, position and place Increase skill portability across job families, industry clusters, education Enabling KSAs (KSC) building blocks for core and cross-functional utility The right level of granularity: Manageable and significant ROI

8 Company Confidential Accredited Standards & Alignment IEEE LTSC P Specifically the three new parts would be: P Performance Objective Statements P Competency Operational Definitions P Competency Logical Data Model Activities: IEEE LTSC

9 Company Confidential Defense Skills and Competency Open Resource (D-SCOR) Framework A system of tools and authoritative data resources to collect/validate skills and competency work, worker, workplace content using a common language and defensible taxonomy. D-SCOR Framework Activities: D-SCOR Framework

10 Company Confidential Activities: D-SCOR Framework

11 Company Confidential Activities: The Skills and Competency Economy

12 Company Confidential Integration Points Activity: Skill and Competency Framework Integration

13 Company Confidential Activity: Germany and Austria Public Services 1.Frameworks (EQF, eCompetence, E*NET, etc.) integration 2.Socialization of Science and user utility 3.Industry cluster formation 4.Individual skill and competency data registry 5.Local, regional and state labor market information (supply & demand) Germany Lead: Dierk Ladendorff Austria Lead: Dr. Jörg Markowitsch

14 Company Confidential Activities: Universal Skills & Competency Lexicon

15 Company Confidential Activities: Universal Skills & Competency Lexicon

16 Company Confidential Activities: VQnet Competency Levels

17 Company Confidential Activity: Framework Integration

18 Company Confidential Position Configuration Management Mass Customization Data Integration with Legacy systems Process Control Activity: Content Aggregation Model

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