90% or more of all undesired events* in an organization are caused by human error. How are you doing? Competency Assurance and Training were supposed to be the answer…. They failed. Most, if not all systems available in the market are legacy database software solutions, driven from the top, and needlessly complex. They are costly, and require Assessors to be available in the physical workplace to do the actual assessment (COVID anyone?). Beyond providing ticks in boxes, and being glorified training databases, the current solutions provide little to no added value to the workforce. Traditional assessments were regularly marred by bias, and adoption by the workforce was problematic. Competency Assurance is often confused with ‘training’: Training is a process with unknown outcome, while Competency , elusive as it may be, is the outcome that organisations seek for their workforce. Competency Assurance. Reinvented. What if you had a user friendly, intuitive software that would take a holistic approach to analyzing gaps in knowledge, skills and desired behaviors in a workforce? A tool that would close those gaps between observed and expected competencies? Integrated with a YOUTUBE like video training platform that would establish and promote best practices in a workplace? A solution that your workforce would love to use; something that could finally take a stab at those undesired events? Read on. Behold ARDVARK: An idea whose time has come……. ARDVARK is a B2B cloud based Competency Assurance/Training platform that analyses, manages and promotes ‘Best Practices’ generated by, and for a workforce through video”. *Undesired events: Any type of loss, including accidents, incidents, equipment damages, rework, waste, downtime, lost productivity, called in warranties, regulatory and environmental non compliances, loss of reputation, etc.