New Strategic Plan Unveiled
The ITCC Board of Directors is excited to share that it has approved the strategic plan for 2025 and 2026. The plan was developed after the Fall Member Meeting in November, where our members’ energy and engagement, along with the excitement around completing the previous strategic plan, helped fuel the board’s thinking about how to take ITCC to the next level.
This two-year plan will guide the organization’s work, providing direction for future initiatives, events, and resources.
Three Key Themes: Community, Value, Future
As the board discussed what they believed was important to the future of the ITCC, they kept coming back to three themes: Community, Value, and Future. The board wanted to ensure the organization:
- Creates frameworks for enhanced member engagement, resource sharing, and support.
- Demonstrates ITCC’s trusted authority among all stakeholders, including members, business leadership, and candidates for certifications.
- Focuses on the solutions members will need to address the industry’s biggest issues and help the industry bridge the skills gap, enhance exam security, and provide workforce development research.
Strategic Goals
After much discussion, the board landed on the following three goals:
Community: Strengthen ITCC’s community by empowering members to connect, collaborate, learn, and succeed together.
Objectives for this goal include:
- Create a plan to incentivize member participation in ITCC activities.
- Generate opportunities that support individual professional development.
- Foster new collaborations between members.
Value: Champion the value of IT certifications by demonstrating their relevance and transformative impact on organizations, candidates, and the global community.
Objectives include:
- Evangelize how certifications have impacted people’s lives and their community or organizations.
- Evangelize how certifications have impacted business outcomes.
- Identify IT skill gaps and share opportunities.
Future: Shape the future of credentialing by predicting and evaluating innovations in skill validation that support a digital workforce.
Objectives include:
- Research and share information on emerging technologies and trends in skill validation.
- Forge strategic partnerships with educational institutions and industry experts.
- Reimagine how the skill validation lifecycle (design, development, delivery, maintenance, psychometrics, etc.) will change in light of those innovations.
- Investigate employer, educator, and candidate skill validation preferences through research.
Looking Ahead
More details about the strategic plan will be shared in the months to come. Based on the conversations and energy felt during the Fall Member Meeting, the board is optimistic about implementing this plan and achieving these goals over the next two years. We look forward to working with you, our valued members, to accomplish these efforts.
