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What is counting more than the words of our Clients?
30-day-Social-Digital-Challenge and Story Telling There is currently inside IBM the “30-day-Social-Digital-Challenge” going on. This means there is a short learning session every day around good practices and ideas. Finally the expectation is to learn more around Social Media for everybody. I started to listen in yesterday finally for the first time after a short vacation, […]
Design Thinking Workshop Looks to Explore Growth Opportunities for Clients’ Skills Development
Design Thinking is not just used in the design of our products at IBM, it’s a methodology used to solve problems, understand our users and markets and explore new ideas. On February 13, the IBM Training and Skills team held an abbreviated Design Thinking session with our Global Training Providers (GTPs) to understand the changing […]
Global Systems Integrator Keeps Pace with Demands of the Enterprise through Innovative Training Solutions
The Challenge A leading global systems integrator (GSI) requires a skilled workforce to tackle the technology shifts in today’s enterprise. In an era of nearly constant change, keeping pace with relevant skills is critical to preserving an effective knowledge-based consultancy. In the last two years, this has been especially true as Cloud and IoT enabling […]
Global Training Provider event at PartnerWorld
We enjoyed the opportunity to meet with our Global Training Providers (GTPs) in Las Vegas at PartnerWorld. Over that week, we had an Advisory Board meeting with all of the GTPs in attendance, and were also joined by Donna Walker, Bob McDonald, Larry Irvin (Business Partner Enablement), Amy Purdy Hirst (z Systems, Power, and Storage […]
I’m part of Generation C
Generation C, X, Y, Z I think I understood the differentiation of Generation X, Y, Baby Boomers, Millennials. – Now you do not know what Generation C is? I read about “Gen C” in a Bog Post and learnt this means “Connected Consumer”. Referring to this I felt directly in love with this definition. Why? […]
Let’s start a new journey
I would like to welcome you to this blog article that wants to give you a heads-up on the new learning journey we created for Storage. I am the curriculum manager for Cloud and Storage courses. My job is to build courses for you… but there is much more to that statement. Our team’s goal […]
Easily Modernize Applications to Stay Competitive – shouldn’t we speak about Training instead?
Yesterday, I found an interesting article around “Easily Modernize Applications to Stay Competitive”. When I was reading the article I learned a lot about what could be done and got some good advice. I felt comfortable with the guy who wrote the article. But suddenly I was thinking: He is giving kind of good training, […]
Training Enables Mexico-Based Banking Giant to Convert to a Customer-Centric Model
Client: Banorte Banorte, the banking subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Banorte (GFNorte), is currently the third largest bank in Mexico. It has more than 27,000 employees, 7,062 ATMs and 1,270 branches. Banorte serves more than 13 million clients and manages more than $138 billion in assets. Situation: Fragmented Systems Banorte is in the process of leveraging […]
iTMS Issuing IBM Open Badges across Greater China Group (GCG) Countries
IBM’s authorized training provider, iTMS, has officially launched a new digital badging initiative, marking a new milestone in the expansion of IBM’s Open Badge Program across the GCG region. iTMS digital badge offerings are currently available for completion of select IBM Power and z Systems training courses. iTMS plans to expand their digital badge program […]
Quality training with ultimate flexibility: Statistics 2016 and what they tell you for you 2017 Learning Approach
I would like to share two statistics about satisfaction with Digital Learning: And two quotes from students: “Having access to high quality lectures and lab exercises on demand is amazing. I don’t have the ability to take enough time off from work to take classes like this in person, so having them available as a […]
Why Self-Directed Learning Matters in Today’s Cloud-Focused World
As technology continues to shift more and more to the cloud, the mentality of those in charge of dispersing training funds could be following in the same direction. In the past, spending a week away from the office for training may have been the most viable and possibly the only option. Now times are changing […]
Training & Skills Chat: Donna Walker looks ahead to 2017
As part of the IBM Training & Skills Chats series of video interviews, I sat down with Rob Shook, Business Development Manager in my organization, to discuss 2017. We talked for a few minutes about the three key topics I see coming up around Training & Skills in 2017 – including the skills gap (which […]
Use Storytelling when developping eLearning – and implement what is already a success for CMOs
As IBMer we started some years ago to discover that storytelling is a very valuable approach in various areas, from Management to Sales and Marketing. I was now surprised to find multiple articles around this, including an article around eLearning and the value of Storytelling for learners – and on the other hand an interesting […]
Quality training with ultimate flexibility
You need effective training on your timeline. Studies show watching a video doesn’t always transfer needed skills alone – that’s why Globalknowledge, one of IBMs Global Training Partners, combined the best features of instructor-led training with the best of self-paced. This new delivery format provides the same world-class training quality as a traditional classroom with the flexibility […]
IBM transforms the Professional Certification Program
Have questions about the IBM Certification program? Dive deep into our new publication that outlines what the IBM Certification Program is and why to take a Certification exam. Publication includes: Governance, Security, Benefits (of Certification), as well as our up and coming Badging Program. Download the PDF today! IBM transforms the Professional Certification Program – […]
Old but still up-to-date: Learning strategy— an investment in the future
When surfing the web another day I sumbled accross an old (old = dated from 2005) article from Jay Cross. He created at that time a paper around Learning Strategy, and I got reminded that I liked this article when it was fresh and new, and even in our times of lots of changes this […]
Learning is personal…
In the past, people were trained to do their jobs once and this would last them for as long as they stayed in the same job. Over time, as job roles morphed and new technologies were introduced, training became essential to keep people knowledgeable, skilled and up to date. Let’s fast forward to today, where people are constantly changing […]
Successful Mainframe Skills – Global Training Providers expand training offerings and reach with new programs
Successful Skills Global Training Providers expand training offerings and reach with new programs IBM in July 2013 introducing five Global Training Providers to sell, deliver and customize the training developed by IBM. There were lots of motivations behind this decision, including extending the reach from a country view, educational options and adapting to the fast-changing […]