NSAR and Dynamic Knowledge are collaborating to test the feasibility of a new AI-enabled platform to assist in upskilling. The research project, UpskillNOW, is IUK funded. It will investigate the build and commercial viability of a platform that uses AI to design robust, scalable, dynamic and cost-effective solutions to skills challenges by identifying competency requirements for upskilling.
The aim of UpskillNOW is to enable organisations to map future capability and competency demand requirements to current workforce competency profiles, identifying ‘needs’ that can be closed by upskilling. It will generate personalised upskilling competency profiles for individuals (extendable to teams).
Most platforms of this type only investigate skills. UpskillNOW will go further by examining and recommending the knowledge and behaviours a workforce requires, taking a context-aware (place, pace, progression etc.) approach to upskilling.
UpskillNOW will link NSAR’s Skills Intelligence Model to our competency management system Skills ID, allowing the automation of processes and providing employers with a rapid end-to-end service that enables them to develop targeted and cost-effective competency solutions.
AI will be used within the platform to rapidly search and categorise large amounts of workforce data, creating useful and meaningful competency solutions. A key emphasis of the project will be identifying and applying best practice in terms of responsible, trustworthy and people-centred AI.
UpskillNOW started at the beginning of October and will last six months.