The GFoundry Skills Taxonomy is a dynamic, intelligent framework that serves as the central nervous system for your entire talent management strategy. It's more than just a list of skills; it's an active engine that maps, tracks, and analyzes the competencies across your organization.
What is a Skills Taxonomy?
At its core, a skills taxonomy is a structured classification of the skills and competencies that are important to your company. It defines what skills are needed for different roles, departments, and strategic objectives.
In GFoundry, this taxonomy is not static. It's a living map that is continuously updated with data from across the platform, giving you a real-time view of your organization's collective capabilities.
How Does It Work? The Power of Gi Learn
One of the most powerful applications of AI within the GFoundry ecosystem is Gi Learn, our intelligent course creation assistant.
Gi Learn leverages the GFoundry Skills Taxonomy to automatically generate complete and relevant training courses from simple text prompts. For example, an administrator can simply ask Gi Learn to "create a course on effective communication."
Because the platform understands which sub-skills and concepts are part of "effective communication" within your organization's taxonomy, Gi Learn instantly generates a structured course—complete with content and quizzes—that is perfectly aligned with that competency.
Furthermore, Gi Learn can use your own internal documents as a source, ensuring the generated content is not only aligned with your skills framework but also with your unique company knowledge. This direct link between the AI content generator and the Skills Taxonomy ensures every course created is purposeful, consistent, and automatically contributes to the skills mapping of your employees.
Why is a Skills Taxonomy So Important?
By having a clear and dynamic view of your company's skills, you can make smarter, data-driven talent decisions. It is the foundation for:
Identifying Skill Gaps: Instantly see where your critical skill shortages are.
Enabling Internal Mobility: Proactively identify internal candidates for open roles based on their verified skills.
Creating Personalized Learning Paths: Move beyond one-size-fits-all training and deliver exactly what each employee needs to grow.
Building a Future-Ready Workforce: Align your training and development efforts with your company's strategic goals to ensure you have the skills you need for tomorrow.
The Skills Taxonomy connects every action to a larger talent strategy, transforming individual activities into meaningful, measurable development.