The ever rising complexity of the corporate IT forces organizations, especially the ones acting internationally, to take measures managing their IT. IT-Governance is one measure to maintain control. IT-Governance is no end in itself, yet, there is a strong need of skilled worker implementing and executing it effectively and efficiently. Problematically, in the global IT-Industry there is a skil...

This memorandum surveys the empirical literature about the effects and determinants of clusters. It finds that clusters generally lead to more innovations, knowledge spillovers, faster diffusion of technologies and knowledge, and competitive advantages. The presence of a skilled labour force is the most important determinant for clusters. Other important factors for the existence of clusters ar...

Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors that predominantly hire individuals with a better ed...

Companies are always looking for a way to optimise the use of their material resources and human resources. Nowadays, issue competency is important crucial in industry. To perform given task using two operators having same qualification, performance achievement varies, which introduces concept individual competence level. This article presents an assessment method multi-skilled workforce. In th...

The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) has been a driving force in the move to competence-based workforce development in the NHS. Skills for Health has developed national workforce competences that aim to improve behavioural performance, and in turn increase productivity. This article describes five projects established to test Skills for Health national workforce competences, electronic ...

INTRODUCTION The successful implementation and utilisation of electronic health information systems is dependent on a highly knowledgeable and skilled workforce. In Australia there is a range of education and training opportunities that seeks to meet these workforce needs. This range of programs reflects both the multi-disciplinary characteristic of health informatics and its wide application w...

BACKGROUND The disease burden due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity and obesity is high and increasing. An adequately sized and skilled workforce is required to respond to this issue. This study describes the public health nutrition and physical activity (NAPA) practice priorities and explores health managers and practitioner's beliefs regarding workforce capacity to deliver on these prior...

CONTEXT Building capacity in the rural physiotherapy workforce: a paediatric training partnership' provided 6 months postgraduate paediatric clinical and academic training for two physiotherapists in rural Australia. It is described as a model for improving services and workforce retention. The need for 'an appropriate, skilled and well-supported health workforce' is the third goal in Australia...