Filling the Skills Gap—Whatever That Means

Creative solutions for evolving realities

Matthew Philips from Bloomberg Businessweek wrote, “There is no skills gap.” James Bessen, in the Harvard Business Review, heartily disagrees in his article, “Employers Aren’t Just Whining—the ‘Skills Gap’ Is Real.” And in his January 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama declared the need to “train Americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now.” The administration’s $2 billion punctuation mark—in the form of an Apprenticeship Training Fund—highlights a very real perception problem.

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The Systems' Cinderellas

Maintenance and Logistics are the most common ones and unfortunately they aren't alone. Gaps mean comparing a given system against other(s), which I personally don't find correct, unless the context(s) in which systems operate are taken into consideration. On one hand; on another hand, companies and organizations have never invested much money to improve the cultural skills of their personnel, thus making the paradigm of creating solutions for evolving realities quite unrealistic. At a personal level, we've created a team to study a different approach to the decades old problem of reliable systems registration: the idea seems to work but companies and organizations (or should I say "people"?) are afraid of the news. Which takes us back to cultural contexts and skills.