Business Development
Review: IBM’s Training Country Coverage evolution
What is country coverage When working on a Global Training Model the reach of this model is key. Selling hardware or license without driving skills can’t work. This is a proven fact. IBM changed its model in 2013. Looking back one reason was a country coverage which was not big enough. Reason for this was […]
Offering Management in IBM Training
Offering Management in IBM It is not a long time ago that IBM established a new practice in IBM: The Offering Manager. While IBM was successful with the old role of Product Managers the new role is matching IBMs Digital Transition. Instead of long and complex processes the Offering Manager is moving forward fast. His […]
Meet… MESH (Modeled Education from Support History)
Wouldn’t it be great if you could see education and enablement offerings customized to what you’re working on today? IBM is working to bring Support and Education together in a way that helps provide this focus on key skills related to work being done in YOUR environment. ‘Modeled Education from Support History’ (MESH) – is […]
Personalization is here to stay!
Dr. Seuss says it best “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. One size fits all does not work for learners today. IBM is on a journey to deliver learners the best in class learning experience to help you achieve success. The most […]
IBM Training & Skills: Donna Walker looks ahead to 2Q 2017
Here is the next video in the IBM Training and Skills chats, where I cover what is coming up in 2Q 2017 and recap 1Q. Hear about the success of IBM’s Open Badge program (winning the ITCC 2017 Innovation Award), our presence at Partner World Leadership Conference and IBM Interconnect and other key conferences, where […]
Learning gets personal with The IBM Skills Gateway
In support of our community of learners, we launched a refreshed IBM training website last April and immediately delivered value to learners developing IT skills. The new site had a sleek user experience and carefully curated content that went way beyond the traditional formal courses. We have now taken that site and transformed it even […]
Skills Gap: 2015, 2016,…
Learning from the history I completed yesterday a short learning snipped around Digital Transformation. While working through this a link to an article came up from Gartner from 2015. The article highlighted, that already in 2015 65% of CIOs believed, that there is a talent crisis. I was surprised. I remember I heard and read […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]