{"id":3125,"date":"2015-09-15T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it-ology-blog.org.s185470.gridserver.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2015-09-15T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:59:53","slug":"at-the-intersection-of-capability-and-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.it-ology.org\/at-the-intersection-of-capability-and-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Intersection of Capability and Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
For many years, prolific writers and wise scholars have used phrases to capture a known phenomenon where timing of two separate activities come together to produce a successful outcome. \u00a0The phrase that I have used for the last twenty years or so is: \u00a0At the intersection of capability and opportunity lies the road to success. \u00a0Success is always defined by the opportunity, however the capability is defined by the preparation, the quality and the alignment of individual people taking action in order to meet the requirements of the opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I would like to use this message to describe what this phrase means in the context of the IT-oLogy mission of advancing IT talent and closing the IT skills gap in this country.<\/p>\n
In order to see that this preparation and capability building by an individual is directly correlated to certain levels of opportunity and is best described as a scaled continuum. \u00a0For the sake of following the examples we\u2019ll use a scale from 0-30, where 0 represents an individual (student or adult) who knows nothing at all about information technology and 30 represents the pinnacle of a career in the profession (Chief Information Officer or Chief Digital Office).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0These 3 examples are somewhere between 0-5 on the \u00a0continuum<\/p>\n
Example 1 – a student comes to an IT-oLogy camp or Cyber Saturday and learns how to take a PC apart and put it back together and make it work. \u00a0Then when an opportunity come at home or at school, the student seizes the opportunity and has the confidence to potentially solve the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n