Program Director, Business Development in IBM Training and Skills
IBM Digital Learning Subscription: Update
What is a Digital Learning Subscription IBM started last year to introduce the first Digital Learning Subscription. Of course, you can still buy a single Digital Learning. But the overall need for continuous learning and fast product changes making a subscription the right choice for lots of people. And aren’t we all used from other […]
Access IBM Skills directly through IBM Marketplace
IBM’s Marketplace As of this week you have access to the IBM Digital Learning Subscription for Cloud in the IBM Marketplace. IBM’s Marketplace is a central place to find IBM’s and IBM’s partners products and services. In their view on marketplaces, Forbes stresses that it is important to have the right content. They are not defining what is right, […]
Mainframe Skills: A review
Why talking about Mainframe skills Those following my blog know that I’m covering from time to time mainframe topics. I just think it is an interesting area to keep an eye on. Some key topics I covered in the past were Successful Skills, z Scholarship or Cobol. So, as I got pinged last week from a client around […]
New Collar: IBM@European Commission
The definition of New Collar The terminology of “New Collar” was introduced in 2017 by Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. It is a derivation from the popular categories of White Collar and Blue Collar jobs. It describes familiar job roles that do not need Bachelor’s degrees or similar. The definition made sense. The market adopted […]
The intention of training
Intention from a personal point of view There was an interesting article some weeks ago around making sure that you know your intention in life and work. It was focused on entrepreneurs, but it is worth for everybody to have a look. Reading this article, I concluded that the topic can be transitioned to many […]
Macro- and Micro-Credentials
Overview The terminology of Macro-Credentials is not as often used as Micro-Credentials in the industry. Google shows only 392 matches compared to more than 99000 for Micro-Credentials (August 2018). Looking into both helps to understand the bigger picture. And this will help you. Today it is important to be able to decide which learning and […]
Digital Learning Subscription: Cloud
Why IBMs Digital Learning Subscription for Cloud In the past the typical sales cycle in the IT industry was slow. People used a product and probably decided a year later to add another one. Today in times of cloud this is no longer true. The timelines have changed. And therefore also the way how training is […]
Evolution of Badges – Labor Market Insight and Talent Search
Badges Most people dealing with education know the terminology. Discussions around digital credentials and badges are everywhere in the internet. I want to show you in this blog that today’s usage is only the start. The evolution around micro credentials will be huge. The newest evolution is far beyond giving a recognition. You’ll see below that badges […]
Net Promoter Score: Impressive and helpful even in Training
Net Promoter Score In the case you never heard about Net Promoter Score (NPS) then please first have a look to the NPS entry on Wikipedia. You’re wondering why I’m writing about it? The answer is simple: It is a great approach. And improves services and products. The biggest route to market for IBMs training are […]
IBM Micro Learning: Access to THINK Hands-On Labs
Micro Learning Let me first speak about Micro Learning. Then about THINK. And then you’ll see how this gets combined starting today: I already posted last week lots of details around all our offerings. One of the newest additions to our offerings are Micro Learnings. In short we’re speaking about 1h access to our products. […]
Education Offerings: Subscription, Training Credits, Micro Learning
Overview To understand IBM’s Education Offerings, some background makes sense. We moved to our present model in 2013. Since then, IBM increased the reach of its skills to more than 150 different countries. The quality is constantly high and we’re monitoring it on a detailed level. Already end of last year we started to roll-out […]
Badges: psychology, usage, future
Badges example: my son My son is too young for all IT industry discussions around badges. But he has shown me last year the power of a badge system. It was during our winter vacation. My son is skiing with me for eight years. I assume it was due to doing lots of sports he is […]
Coursera as platform for IBMs Blockhain courses and more
Background You may wonder why I’m writing about Coursera and IBM. The real question is why IBM decided to make content available together with them. IBM has a perfectly working Education Business Model. This model is based on Global Training Providers. And it has lots of success in quality, coverage and driven skills. The Training Providers […]
Measure Education Coverage
Today, I want to share some thoughts around coverage. In general, there are lots of discussions around the question “Is your company having a good education coverage?” Most responses are negative. People do not have a clear definition on what education coverage is exactly. In the end, everybody has his own definition. Let us reflect a […]
New Training Offerings: Training Credits
Prepaid Training Offerings Running a training business always means you need to make it easy for clients. Thinking of this statement also means you need a discount strategy. Reflecting about possibilities of training offerings, there is one established product that most vendors are providing. Usually this is something where you pay money upfront and you […]
Free training: what is the right amount?
We all want something for free I like things that are free and I have to be honest, when you offer me something for free I’ll take it. Why should I pay for something if the same exists free of charge. Following up on this thought, is there really anything free in life? When discussing […]
Sponsor Users: an opportunity for networking
Education Offerings in IBM If you follow the blog entries in our IBM Training Blog regularly you realize that we’re doing a lot around transforming our Education. We completed the transition some years ago to use a Global Partner Network for Delivery and Sales. This year we’re working a lot on Digital Transformation and Offerings. […]
Conference 2017: Support & Education@TSW
TSW TSW (Technology Service World) is TSIAs (Technology Industry Services Associations) big conference. And it is runnng twice a year. We as IBM are participating in TSIA to exchange ideas and experiences with other vendors and partners since TSIA offers a great platform for discussion. Finally the discussions are really helping around current and future […]