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Press / 2005 / 14^th November

BAE Systems defines internal IT profession with InfoBasis

BAE Systems has chosen InfoBasis, the skills management experts, to define and manage the roles of IT professionals within the company.

BAE Systems, the international aerospace and defence system development, delivery and support company, has previously grouped IT employees with either engineers or project managers, making it hard to gauge internal levels of expertise. Using InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Infrastructure™ (ESI) it will audit existing internal IT skills against a SFIA framework, within a geographically dispersed workforce, based in 20 different sites in the UK alone.

The project, which has grown out of a small pilot begun in March, currently involves 500 licenses, covering IT employees in UK and Saudi Arabia. In addition to auditing the pool of IT skills within the organisation, InfoBasis ESI will create a capability management mechanism for effective staff development.

InfoBasis was chosen because of its position as the only SFIA accredited software company and its previous work with the MoD. Another factor was the ease with which InfoBasis ESI could customise and expand skills frameworks beyond SFIA, to define very specialist IT skills, as well as giving the ability to quickly change and update role definitions.

“This work with BAE Systems demonstrates the huge impact skills management can have at a business level in organisations,” said Ashley Wheaton, CEO of InfoBasis. “It grew from a skills audit of one section of the business, into the creation of a professional IT structure within the company, once BAE Systems saw that ESI can be used as a modelling tool to validate job profiles.”

“It is important to us to ensure that our IT staff have a clearly defined career path and are aware of the professional requirements they are expected to meet,” said Adrian Fallows at BAE Systems. “At the same time our work with InfoBasis will ensure that IT projects our carefully matched to employees’ skills - increasing efficiency and also, we hope, job satisfaction.”