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Why organisations struggle to maintain skills visibility
Many organisations rely on fragmented systems to track workforce capability. Skills information is often stored across HR systems, spreadsheets and individual profiles, making it difficult to maintain a consistent view of expertise across the organisation.
How Retain connects skills to operational planning
Retain introduces a unified skills framework that links talent capability directly to resource management workflows. By combining structured skills data with project delivery insights, organisations can make more informed decisions about how work is allocated and how talent develops over time.
Standardise capability using a global skills taxonomy
Retain Skills+ powered by Lightcast, providing access to a global library of up to 30,000 industry skills. This enables organisations to build a consistent skills taxonomy across departments while tailoring the framework to match internal roles and capabilities.
Maintain governance with skills approval workflows
Organisations can ensure the accuracy of skills data through approval workflows. When talent updates their skills profile, managers can review and approve the changes to maintain consistency across the organisation’s capability framework.
Stay informed with skills notifications
Retain provides notifications when important skills information changes. This includes alerts when certifications expire, when recommended skills are available or when a manager needs to review capability updates within their team.
Capture real project performance through skill endorsements
Managers can endorse skills demonstrated during project delivery through structured job reviews. Merit badges and endorsements provide qualitative insight into capability development while recognising expertise demonstrated on real projects.
Identify capability gaps across the organisation
Skills analytics help organisations identify capability shortages and plan recruitment or training strategies. By connecting skills data with project demand, organisations gain clearer visibility into future capability requirements.
Business Impact
A unified skills framework enables organisations to understand capability across their workforce and allocate talent more effectively. By connecting skills intelligence with resource management planning, organisations gain stronger visibility into expertise, development and project delivery outcomes.
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What is a skills-based resource management platform?
A skills-based resource management platform helps organisations allocate talent to projects using capability data such as skills, experience and certifications. By maintaining a structured skills taxonomy, organisations can match expertise to project requirements, identify capability gaps and support workforce development while improving project staffing decisions.
FAQs
Retain provides a structured skills framework powered by Lightcast that standardises capability data across the organisation.
The Skills+ framework includes access to a global library of up to 30,000 industry skills.
Yes. Organisations can tailor the taxonomy to reflect internal roles, disciplines and capability requirements.
Yes. Managers can endorse skills demonstrated during project delivery through job reviews.
Skills analytics compare workforce capability with project demand to highlight areas where additional expertise may be required.
Yes. Talent profiles allow individuals to update their capability information, which can then be reviewed through approval workflows.