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Advanced Wood Processing Skills and TRM (Phase 1) — Introduction
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Wood Manufacturing Council
Fall 2008
This document outlines the results from Phase 1 of a Skills and Technology Roadmap for the Canadian Advanced Wood Processing Industry. The document sets out the recommended projects for the Skills and Technology Roadmap and discusses a Strategy to proceed to Phase 2. The development process for Phase 1 of this Skills and Technology Roadmap took place from spring 2008 into the fall of 2008. The development of this STRM was facilitated by Centre for Public Management Inc. of Ottawa, Ontario.
Introduction to the Skills and Technology Roadmap
A successful Skills and Technology Roadmap (STRM) will clearly capture the linkage between future market needs, the necessary industry response, and the technologies that an industry needs to develop or perfect. The objective of this STRM is to identify a set of high priority technical projects that will assist the advanced wood processing industry to meet future market demands. It is also intended to establish collaborative arrangements between industry members to develop these technologies and introduce them to the industry and its market. These technologies will be critical to move the industry forward and ensure that Canada's advanced wood manufacturers can continue to adapt quickly to market demands and trends.
This STRM is also intended to provide the Wood Manufacturing Council (WMC) with knowledge about technology and technology-related skills gaps within the industry. This will assist the WMC in developing new programs to build the capacity needed so the industry can deliver and work with these critical technologies. Ultimately, this will ensure that Canada's advanced wood manufacturing industry has a well-prepared workforce to keep ahead of the rapid changes in the industry. Furthermore, the STRM will assist the WMC in levering its existing knowledge about technology and skills gaps into a marketdriven plan to tackle specific technologies and grow the skills needed to utilize those technologies.
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