IBM Client Success Badge Program
Personal Corbett Schollmeyer Client Success and Support Champion I have been a support professional for over 30 years. I have worked in the Submarine community on Sub-safe level 1 repair operations, in the Aviation sector on Safe for flight repair evaluations, and in the Tech industry in both hardware and software environments. In all these […]
Updated! Getting to know our GTPs: LearnQuest
Myself I am the Partner Relationship Manager for LearnQuest, and am located in Toronto, Canada, where I previously was responsible for the IBM Canada Education Centre. With over 20 years of education and training experience I am excited to be able to work with LearnQuest and continue the journey of growing IBM skills worldwide. LearnQuest […]
ITCC honors IBM Open Badge program with their Innovation Award
We’re proud to announce that IBM has just been awarded the IT Certification Council (ITCC)’s 2017 Innovation Award for our Open Badging program. Open Badges provide digital recognition for skills, offer a method of sharing credentials in social media, and are used inside IBM as well as by our customers around the world. Last year, […]
IBM Open Badge Program wins ITCC Award
IBM is proud to announce that our IBM Open Badge Program has won the 2017 Information Technology Certification Council’s (ITCC) Innovation Award. The award is given to organizations that have created a product, service, or initiative that creates a difference within the IT Certification Industry. The IBM Open Badge Program not only provides recognition […]
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 […]
Mastering Learning as a skill
As we come to the close of the 1st quarter in 2017, we have been exposed to a multitude of publications around top skills and/or top jobs for 2017. Here are some stand-outs from my perspective : LinkedIn data reveals the most promising jobs in 2017 Monster’s 5 new collar jobs you could land […]
IBM wins top industry award for innovation in digital credentials
By David Leaser (@david_leaser) In just a few short years, Open Badges have barnstormed into the digital credentials space, providing a unique way to issue a digital credential which can be shared instantly on social sites – the perfect marriage between social media and credentials/recognition. Badges can be issued for a wide variety of activities, […]
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 […]
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 […]