Service and Delivery
Knowledge Element: manpower capabilities
Definition of Knowledge Element:
Know the general manpower capabilities of the engineering team and specific areas of expertise of individuals within it.
A very brief summary of the Knowledge:
The experience of the engineering team varies between individuals due to their background knowledge, the prior work they have been involved in, their length of time with the company and their general intelligence and capability.
A summary of expert opinion:
The knowledge named 'manpower capabilities' is considered to be absolutely critical.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be quite difficult to replace, it is mostly learned from experience, and Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts.
It is also specialised knowledge, and quite frequently changing knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.
Risk:
This knowledge element has a risk value of 7.82, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.
This knowledge is one of the higher risk items in the knowledge structure. Its risk value of 7.82, can be compared with the average risk for the highest ten percent of the knowledge, of 7.412 and the average risk for the whole map stated above.
Knowledge linked by learning dependency:
| Assess resources |
| manpower capabilities |
|---|
Postrequisite knowledge implies that manpower capabilities must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.
manpower capabilities has no prerequisite knowledge items and is therefore known as a leaf node. A leaf node is knowledge that has not been investigated further when the map was constructed.
Parameters assigned for manpower capabilities.
| Identifier | Name | Value | Clarifier | Weight | Study Mean |
P1 |
Importance |
9.0 |
absolutely critical |
1.0 |
6.34 |
P2 |
Recovery |
5.0 |
quite difficult to replace |
1.0 |
3.38 |
P3 |
Study-Exp |
8.0 |
mostly learned from experience |
1.0 |
3.46 |
P4 |
Known By |
1.0 |
Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts |
-1.0 |
2.80 |
P6 |
Specialised |
8.0 |
specialised knowledge |
1.0 |
5.05 |
P7 |
Stability |
2.0 |
quite frequently changing knowledge |
-0.7 |
6.41 |
People Involved with manpower capabilities:
| Person | Expert | Capable | Responsible | A A Pendragon | --- |
Yes |
--- |
M A Smith | Yes |
--- |
Yes |
|---|
Computed Similarity
The most similar node to manpower capabilities is System configuration.
The most dissimilar node to manpower capabilities is Organise Accommodation.
Computer generated Options for Action:
Options for Action are computer generated ideas for the development of a particular knowledge area that an analyst or manager may wish to consider. The options generated for manpower capabilities are listed below.
Option Class is :- Staff development
This option is :- Formal training provided internally using internal experts and resources
This briefly involves :- Training provided by internal experts may be worthwhile in certain areas of high knowledge risk. It can help protect and deploy critical company specialist knowledge and also help experts to review and develop this knowledge.
Option Class is :- Protect, Develop Deploy
This option is :- The formal study and analysis of knowledge using Knowledge Structure Mapping
This briefly involves :- The knowledge element in question can be taken as the initial investigative question for a further knowledge study using KSM. The results can be treated separately and also combined with the current study in an integrative manner considering all learning dependency links.