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Kahuna and PXO Partner to Accelerate Competence Management In Norway’s Energy Sector

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Kahuna and PXO AS’s collaboration will improve operations readiness, assurance, and competence management within the region’s energy sector. The partnership aims to help Norwegian energy companies navigate the energy transition and align operational standards with expanding ESG initiatives and emerging technologies. Supporting Norway’s Oil and Gas Technical Workforce Houston, TX – February 6, 2024 – […]

Navigating Energy Mergers and Acquisitions

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The energy sector has experienced remarkable consolidation driven by many strategic, economic, and operational drivers. Historically, energy mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have primarily centered around investment acquisition, organizational growth, and expanding market share. However, as the industry undergoes dynamic transformations, Deloitte reports that new drivers such as the energy transition, energy ESG considerations, energy security, […]

Kahuna Secures $21 Million Series B

Kahuna Series B Funding for Skills Management Technology for Frontline Workforces

Kahuna’s Series B funding enables strategic growth in product innovation and development, operational capabilities, and team members. Resolve’s investment in Kahuna speaks to the criticality of operational skills management technology and skills-based initiatives across organizations with technical frontline workers. Skills Management Technology for Frontline Workforces Houston, TX – November 29, 2023 – Kahuna Workforce Solutions, the […]

Identify, Analyze, Close, and Overcome Skills Gaps with Skills Management

Dynamic industry transformations, workforce shortages, and technology are impacting organizations daily, leaving workforce skills as a key topic of conversation for businesses. Leaders want to understand skills across the workforce, identify and conduct skills gap analysis, and strategically train employees to prepare the business for change. 74% of CEOs are concerned about the availability of […]

VCA Animal Hospitals Implements Kahuna’s Skills Management Software

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With Kahuna’s skills management software, VCA Animal Hospitals can empower veterinary Associates in their skills development and career journey, moving clinical medicine forward to provide world-class pet care. Houston, TX – November 8, 2023 – VCA Animal Hospitals, part of Mars Veterinary Health, demonstrates its dedication to the career advancement of veterinary technicians and veterinary […]

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for Skills-Based Organizations

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Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) are an individual’s specific qualifications and attributes that offer valuable insights into how they will perform in their role. KSAs range across the spectrum, including both soft and technical competencies. Examples include but are not limited to effective communication, adaptation in dynamic environments, critical thinking, technical knowledge, problem-solving, data analysis, […]

Kahuna Brings Scalability and Optimized Performance to its Operational Skills Management Software

Kahuna’s skills management software enhancements reimagine how customers approach operational skilling throughout energy, field service, manufacturing, and healthcare. Kahuna Workforce Solutions, the leading provider of operational skills management software, announces the release of a new user experience for its flagship product. These enhancements feature a modern and intuitive interface, scalable technology for big data insights, […]

Skills Management Tool for HR and Operations

Skills Management Tool for HR and Operations

Operational skills management is the business process of identifying critical skills, evaluating workforce capability, and developing skills to align with operational demands. This research, written in partnership with Josh Bersin, highlights the criticality of operational and technical skills management for organizations in highly regulated work environments.  JOSH BERSIN WEBINAR ON-DEMAND Partner HR and Business Leadership […]

Skills Fuel Competency Assurance and Energy Innovations

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Energy organizations face incremental pressures from investors, shareholders, government regulations, the market, and society to deliver reliable energy, diversify the business, be innovative with new technology, uphold energy ESG standards, and be a competitive workplace. Each pressure presents complexities to ensure competency and compliance of the workforce, as well as operational efficiency and ultimately, revenue […]

What is Competency Management?

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What is competency management? Competency management is a critical strategy that aligns workforce and operational capability to accomplish business objectives.

Odfjell Technology Implements Kahuna Skills Management

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With safety as a top priority, Odfjell Technology’s implementation of Kahuna skills management ensures competence assurance in all daily operations. Houston, TX – August 8, 2023 – Odfjell Technology is an integrated supplier for offshore operations, well services technology, and engineering solutions prioritizing the delivery of safe, efficient, and sustainable operations while reducing time, cost, and […]

Your HRIS Wasn’t Built for Technical Competency Management

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Managing technical competencies and skills across the organization can be a daunting, seemingly impossible task. Employees throughout the workforce — those on the front lines and in the C-Suite — need access and visibility into the status of these business-critical skills. With a multitude of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) available, how do you navigate […]

NCR Deploys Kahuna Skills Management

With Kahuna skills management, NCR’s global field technicians have the right skills and expertise to provide industry-leading customer service. Houston, TX – June 30, 2023 – NCR, a leading enterprise technology provider, emphasizes their priority of providing quality and reliable service to customers while fostering growth opportunities for employees, with the deployment of Kahuna’s skills […]

Yinson Holdings Berhad Deploys Kahuna Skills Management

With Kahuna’s skills management platform, Yinson can ensure the health, safety, and compliance of its fleet workforce population to ensure offshore competency assurance. Houston, TX – June 6, 2023 – Yinson Holdings Berhad’s (“Yinson” or the “Group”) focus on operational health and safety is solidified with their deployment of Kahuna’s SaaS skills management software across the […]

Meet Evolving Business Needs with the Top Skills Management Platform

Skills management software is designed to track the workforce’s skills, competencies, experiences, and knowledge. When searching for the right technology, leaders may consider their traditional HR systems, a homegrown skills management system, or a dedicated skills tech solution. With a growing number of technology choices, it’s important to remember that the top skills management platform […]

Kahuna Solidifies its Place in the Skills Management Tech Market

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Kahuna, the leading skills and competency management solution in the skills management technology market, closes 2022 above plan. Skills Management Tech is Critical in Operational Environments Houston, TX – February 7, 2023 – Kahuna Workforce Solutions the leading provider of skills and competency management software, announces the close of 2022 above plan as organizations strive […]

Stanford Children’s Implements Kahuna

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health enriches its orientation, onboarding, and clinical skills development with Kahuna’s modern competency management platform.  Houston, TX – January 18, 2023 – Kahuna Workforce Solutions announces the successful implementation of its skills and competency management software for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health across their clinical staff population.  In the continuously changing healthcare environment, […]

Manufacturing Skills Management Challenges

Meeting Manufacturing Challenges Mitigates Risk From energy and chemical equipment manufacturing to safely handling food and beverage or apparel and textiles, the manufacturing industry faces challenges in managing skills within the workforce. While the varying types of manufacturing have their differences, each must abide by optimal standards. Here we’ll unpack the five most significant challenges […]

Bridging the Energy Sector Skills Gap

Regardless of where your organization sits in the ever-expanding energy value chain — operator or service provider in upstream, midstream, downstream, traditional, non-traditional, or renewables — competency assurance and operational skilling are critical in bridging the energy sector skills gap and ensuring the safety, competence, and capability of your workforce. Using a competency management system […]

Implement Skills Management Software

Organizations around the globe are putting more and more focus on skills — what they are, how to track them, and how to use the data. Maximizing the value of your skills and making informed business decisions is heavily dependent on the reliability and sustainability of your skills management program. To implement skills management effectively […]

How to Staff Your Skills Program for Success

We talk a lot about the drastic impacts technology is making in the business landscape, both in operational functions and back-office processes. But the truth is organizations still heavily rely on people to make the business run. Running a successful skills management program is no different. The quality of people that you put into place […]

The Risk of Mismanaging Skills Management

Establishing a strategy for managing and maintaining your skills management program is a vital step in the process of deploying a skills management function in your business. It’s often the difference between organizations that experience a wasted investment and those that achieve a future-proofed program. In this blog, we’ll talk through the risks of mismanaging […]

Competency Assurance & Safe Operations

As we listened in on the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) session, Perspectives from the Field, the message was clear. What keeps frontline rig managers up at night? The safety and competence of their workforce. Competency assurance is essential to safe, effective operations. What is competency assurance? Competency assurance at its most basic level […]

Top Engineering Skills & Competencies

Why do you need an engineering skills framework? The engineering industry is vast and complex with a variety of different roles and job functions. Even within the same organization, engineers can hold positions in electrical, mechanical, software, or chemical engineering, just to name a few. The top engineering skills needed can vary significantly, but there […]

What are QSEN Competencies in Nursing?

What are the QSEN competencies? The six QSEN competencies were created to help prepare and equip nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide quality and safe care in the health systems in which they work. Incorporating specific QSEN competency statements delivers needed standardization across nursing education, licensing, and certification programs. Why are QSEN competencies […]

Kahuna Collaborates with Wolters Kluwer

Kahuna collaborates with Wolters Kluwer to enrich nursing competency testing and development. Houston, TX – April 12, 2022 – Kahuna Workforce Solutions announced it is working with Wolters Kluwer to combine Kahuna’s modern competency management platform with Lippincott Solutions© evidence-based clinical-information solutions. Together, the two resources will help health systems provide a rich learning and competency […]

Employee Skills: Metrics That Matter

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Employee skills — metrics that matter — or do they matter? All industries have experienced change over the last year and a half. Leaders have narrowed their focus on the survival and stability of their organizations. Looking to the future, they’ll need to concentrate on steps to safely emerge into the “new normal” of post-pandemic […]

What is Skills Management Software?

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The success of your organization is largely dependent on the skills, abilities, and knowledge of your workforce. As you navigate changes in technology, working environments, and business goals, it’s critical to keep employee skills and competencies top of mind. Top leaders around the globe are leveraging competency and skills management software and verified skills data […]

Kahuna 2020 Year In Review

I would love to pretend as if 2020 was any other year but we all know that isn’t the case. Rather than focus on the challenges we all faced, I would like to highlight why 2020 was a successful year for Kahuna. By most measures, the company outperformed expectations all the while strengthening relationships with […]

Hashmap Selects Kahuna

Houston, TX, November 18, 2020, Kahuna Workforce Solutions announces Georgia based Hashmap Inc., a preferred Snowflake SI focused on accelerating outcomes and solutions in data, cloud, IoT, and AI/ML, has selected Kahuna’s SaaS skills and competency management platform to automate the assessment and development process for their team of technologists and engineers. Leveraging Kahuna allows […]

Skill and Program Infrastructure

Skill and Program Infrastructure

Subscribe: Apple |  Spotify | TuneIn | YouTube Welcome to session three Skill and Program Infrastructure: Foundation for Building Your Skills Competency Program. In this session, I will provide an example of how to set up an infrastructure and engagement framework for your program and for building the skills. I will present the quad model roles and responsibilities of the […]

Competency Basics

Competency Basics

Subscribe: Apple |  Spotify | TuneIn | YouTube Suggest a Topic Welcome to Competency Basics. This is the first session of You’ve Been Tasked With Doing Competencies. Now what? In this session, we will talk about some of the best practices as you begin your journey with competencies. My name is Catherine Kovar and I am the Principle Advisor of […]

Using Bloom’s to Write Competency Descriptions

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Learn about skills and competency management across industries Field Service Healthcare Manufacturing Energy How do you construct a competency framework? One of the first questions customers ask when beginning a competency management implementation is, “How do we categorize and construct our competency statements and library?” It’s a great question, one that touches every point of […]

Kahuna Partners with HRG

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Houston, TX – August 19, 2020 – Kahuna Workforce Solutions and High Reliability Group (HRG) announce a partnership combining Kahuna’s proven SaaS platform with HRG’s organizational framework enabling organizations to create and sustain Operational Excellence. Built with compliance and workforce management in mind, Kahuna gives enterprise-wide visibility into competencies and meets organizational needs of how […]

Putting Workforce Competency to Work

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[MEC id=”3236″] Jai Shah, Kahuna’s Co-founder and CEO, and Tom White, Kahuna’s Vice President of Product Management, join Christopher Lind from Learning Tech Talks in this session, Putting Workforce Competency To Work. Regardless of what you call them, skills and competencies are fundamental elements that guide your talent strategy and provide the framework required for […]

Kahuna Partners with NorComp

We’re excited to announce our partnership with NorComp, a SI company in Norway with more than 12 years of international experience in competency assurance and learning management. NorComp has strategically worked with Kahuna since 2016, playing a key role in project implementation and management with several clients. With their knowledge of our system and European […]

DCP Midstream Selects Kahuna

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Houston, TX – June 9, 2020 – DCP Midstream, one of the largest natural gas liquids producers and marketers in the U.S, has selected Kahuna Workforce Solutions as their competency management software to develop and implement a skills program, equipping employees with the expertise to achieve DCP business goals. With the implementation of Kahuna, DCP […]

7 Competency Management Best Practices

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There’s no need to re-invent the wheel. Download our 7 competency management best practices and leverage the work of those who’ve gone before you. Get your copy today.

5 Reasons to Include Competency Management in Your Digital Strategy

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Before we get started, let’s discuss the digital transformation. What is it?  Human Resource operations and processes are moving “out of the spreadsheet.” Successful HR departments are becoming automated and data-driven, taking advantage of the latest technology to support an evolving workforce. While we refer to this change as the “Digital Transformation”… it’s really a […]

Fugro Implements Kahuna

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By integrating Kahuna into its digital HR strategy, Fugro engages and empowers employees by providing global visibility into competencies. Houston, TX – October 22, 2019 – Fugro’s commitment to employee development took another step forward with implementing Kahuna, a leading competency management platform. Recognizing the importance of employee engagement, Fugro embarked on a journey to […]

Aggreko Selects Kahuna

Aggreko Selects Kahuna Workforce

With Kahuna, leaders can identify competency gaps and model workforce needs with real-time analytics to power decision making. HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kahuna Workforce Solutions announced today that Aggreko, the leading supplier of power, heating, cooling, and compressed air equipment, selected Kahuna to increase visibility into talent management and development solutions for improved future business operations. Aggreko’s experience […]

Pacific Drilling Selects Kahuna

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HOUSTON, July 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Hula Partners, a leading provider of competency management solutions, today announced Pacific Drilling has selected its Kahuna platform to power its competency management program. Pacific Drilling plans to use the Kahuna platform for competency assignment, assessment, and skills gap closure as well as providing contextual links to training. “The rollout of […]