Our mission is simple: Visualizing and closing your skills gaps
But how? By clearly mapping your team’s current skills, tracking progress toward learning new skills, and identifying the missing skills you still need to get your organization ready for the future and stay compliant.
How it all began
Fifteen years ago, the Dutch fire brigade discovered a company that had started developing the skills management software it so desperately needed. And this is how our company, AG5, won its first-ever client.
But it wasn’t only the fire brigade that was struggling with skills management. To our astonishment, we soon discovered that many manufacturing companies, too, were still using Excel spreadsheets to manage their skills matrices. And not particularly successfully …
Operations and HR managers throughout the industry were struggling to keep control. In fact, they’d already lost control to overly complex and error-prone spreadsheets that were hampering more than they were helping. We knew we could help them escape the ‘cells’ they’d built for themselves in Excel.
Early adopters, Johma Salades and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, wanted to break free and eagerly participated in a series of AG5’s pilot tests. A year of continuous development later and together we’d co-created a simple user interface that met not only their needs but also those of any company looking to get to grips with its skills management and close its skills gaps.
The rest – as they say – is history!
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Meet the team


Anthia
Growth Marketing


Arjen
Research & Development


Gea
Customer Success


Julie
Front-end Development


Koen
Product Development


Lars
Graphic & Interface Design


Mark
Customer Success


Mijke
Customer Onboarding


Niels
Sales


Rob
Research & Development


Sid
Research & Development


Tom
Product Development


Ype
Product Development

Ruxandra
Head of Marketing
White paper | The Benefits of Skills Matrices
Who’ll benefit from this white paper?
- You, if you’re wondering what a ‘skills matrix’ is exactly.
- You, if you’re not sure how to implement skills matrices.
- You, if you’re looking to get even more out of your existing matrices.
Our offices
AG5 Amsterdam, Netherlands HQ
Oostelijke Handelskade 865
Amsterdam
Nederland
+31 (0)20 463 0942
info@ag5.com