Welcome
Welcome to the Collective Intelligence Skills Observatory (CISO), home of the Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) for West Midlands region. In addition to the LSIP, the CISO contains links to the business survey and a series of skills supply and demand information, which collectively underpin the LSIP.
The CISO has been produced by Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber, one of 38 employer representative bodies developing an employer-led approach to skills planning as part of a new Department for Education programme.
How to use the site
This site can be navigated in different ways. You can either follow the recommended user-group pathways below, developed to explore the data analysis and information in a sequence that will help build a relevant picture by user-group. Alternatively, you can navigate at your own pace and order using the drop-down menus at the top of the page.
About the data
The approach taken by our website development partner East Midlands Chamber to deliver the LSIP is data-led with a focus on automation and sustainable delivery of the outcomes. The CISO provides access to a series of reports and dashboards that give insights into:
- Skills supply dashboards representing the outcomes of supply side from Key Stage 4, Further Education, Apprenticeships, 16-18 destinations and Higher Education.
- Skills demand dashboards representing the projection of job growth, top 20 skills - soft, hard and certifications, top job titles across each sector respectively.
The data is collected from various sources through web scraping, APIs access, contracts and restricted special access to sources of information. A completely new infrastructure - cloud architecture - is developed to support the LSIP to ensure the system is flexible and easy to scale.