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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/track-where-your-capability-is-overly-concentrated",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0643",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Track where your capability is overly concentrated",
  "summary": "Depth creates value; concentration creates fragility.",
  "kind": "checklist",
  "body": "For each major capability, note which parts depend on a single vendor, proprietary system, internal relationship or narrow industry rule. Keep the depth that pays, but choose one adjacent context where the underlying skill could be exercised or demonstrated. Treat diversification as a targeted hedge, not a demand to become generalist at everything.",
  "limits": [
    "Specialization can be rational and highly valuable; concentration is a risk to manage, not evidence that niche expertise is bad."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-career-portability-and-transition-readiness"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4",
    "RS-08236F26F4682132"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "O*NET publishes transferable-skill and work-activity competency frameworks that can help identify capability overlap across occupations.",
      "source_id": "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Framework overlap does not prove a person can perform a target role without context-specific knowledge and practice.",
      "locator": "Transferable Skills and Work Activities Competency Frameworks"
    },
    {
      "claim": "WEF's 2025 employer survey reports substantial expected skill change through 2030 and significant anticipated upskilling and reskilling needs among surveyed employers.",
      "source_id": "RS-08236F26F4682132",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These are employer expectations, not deterministic predictions; needs differ materially by industry, geography and firm.",
      "locator": "Skills outlook and training needs"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Your strongest value depends on one employer, one product, one customer or one internal process."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Specialization can be rational and highly valuable; concentration is a risk to manage, not evidence that niche expertise is bad."
  ],
  "example": "Deep expertise in one master-data platform is paired with portable data-governance, workflow and integration reasoning rather than replaced by superficial skills in five platforms.",
  "check": "You can name both the economic advantage and the failure mode of your specialization.",
  "checklist": [
    "Single-vendor dependencies named.",
    "Single-employer dependencies named.",
    "Proprietary context separated from transferable mechanism.",
    "One adjacent application identified for major concentrated skills.",
    "No unnecessary breadth added."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4",
      "title": "O*NET Competency Frameworks",
      "url": "https://www.onetcenter.org/competencyFrameworks.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-08236F26F4682132",
      "title": "The Future of Jobs Report 2025",
      "url": "https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-72B4F1DC8779A7DE",
      "title": "Make your skills portable before you need to move",
      "url": "/collections/make-your-skills-portable-before-you-need-to-move"
    }
  ]
}