How is ICF International’s approach to competency modeling different from other companies?
The approach taken by ICF International is different from others in that we have knowledge of both best practices from the applied literature and cutting-edge research findings from the academic literature. We have more than 30 years of private- and public-sector experience developing competency models and conducting job analyses, and we can work with your organization to develop a solid, research based, custom competency model in a relatively short period of time. Many organizations are selling off-the-shelf competency models to companies that often result in little gain in utility for the organization. ICF International will work with your organization to develop the model that is specific to your culture, working conditions, and employees or organizational mission/values/strategy (depending on the approach desired, see question 10) in order to maximize the benefit of the model for the human resource practices of your organization.
