Using Croatian Qualification Framework and Organizational Growth Model to help SME's specify job qualifications

Since joining the EU Croatia increasingly started with the implementation of Croatian Qualification Framework (CROQF) with the main aim of standardising the qualifications and competencies. Such standard will serve as a base for connecting various educational and study programmes. It will also be directed towards the marketplace. Other goals of CROQF include establishing the Register of Occupational Standards and the Register of Qualifications Standards, taxonomies which use competencies to establish connection between occupations and qualifications. Organizational Growth Model (OGM) is a methodology developed with the aim of automating the process of selection of ERP systems for small and medium enterprises (SME) by using a knowledge base to specify functional requirements. One of the phases of OGM is specification of business processes within the SME. The proposal is to establish a link between the individual processes generated by OGM and appropriate competencies in Register of Qualifications Standards in order to obtain a new ontology. Appropriate tools, standards and procedures can be applied to the obtained ontology in order to extract the knowledge about occupations required by a particular SME.