What is Skills-First Maturity?
Skills-First Maturity is data progression analytics tool providing insights and scorecards on the progress of your organization’s Skills-First journey.
Deloitte Insights reports that 98% of global organizations are transitioning to a Skills-First workforce operating model. As organizations transition to Skills-First, it is critically important that they have insight into the progress of their Skills-First journey.
Why Become Skills-First?
Most organizations spend thousands per hire on roles their existing workforce could fill — they just can't see it.
Visual Workforce gives leaders a real-time view of workforce capabilities so they can act on what they already have:
Redeploy before you recruit — identify internal candidates for open roles before posting externally
Cut time-to-fill — place the right person faster by knowing exactly who has the skills needed
Reduce training waste — target development spend on actual gaps, not assumed ones
Retain top performers — show employees a clear path forward based on their real skills
Respond faster to change — when priorities shift, find the people who can adapt in minutes, not weeks
Future-proof your enterprise - transforming 'Key-Person Risk' into Leadership Depth
Ensure your next generation of leaders – data insights deliver pathways to Succession
Organizations using Visual Workforce move from workforce guesswork to workforce clarity — and that changes how they hire, develop, and deploy talent.
Our 7 Levels of Skills-First Maturity
Our approach reorganizes an entirely new and informative business value methodology around the Skills-First journey — 7 levels that build on each other, with clear prerequisites, measurable signals, and stakeholder-specific outcomes at every level. This includes KPI’s, ISO’s, scientific assessments, and other aggregated analytic components relevant to each of the 7 Levels. This is the dashboard leadership and the C-suite have been begging for, but Human Resources & Operations have not had the data to produce. Now they do.
Over 70 KPI’s & ISO 30414:2025 Standard Reporting Requirements for Human Capital
Skills-First Maturity journey automatically tracks your workforce data progression, providing insights and scorecards on the progress of your organization’s Skills-First journey.
Key metrics adding value to growth organizations and strengthening small and medium size companies for more competitive access to the talent marketplace.
“No more guessing or fear of the unknown. Visual Workforce delivers effectiveness and ROI of Skills-First”.
