Training Industry Blog

Eric Berglund has thrown down the gauntlet, and being one to respond to challenges, I am rising to the occasion. In his comment to my blog entry posted on 1/22/10, Eric said, “Patricia, here's an ambitious goal for your blog: Teach us enough finance that we'll know when employee training is the right thing for a company to do.” So, you be the judge and let me know how I do…

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Cisco announced on January 20th, 2010 the first significant changes to their cornerstone certification, the Cisco's Certified Network Professional (CCNP). Microsoft last year retired their predominant certification, the Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) replacing it with entire new certification architecture. The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/certification/), a vendor neutral training and certification entity, announced significant changes to their IT Architect and IT Specialist programs. The list goes on as many more IT product vendors and IT organizations are changing the way they train and certify their members.

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There is no question that 2009 was a turbulent year for many training organizations. Reduction in workforce, rationalization of portfolio's, reduced budgets - we can go on and on about the trials and tribulations of how this economy affected our profession. What I find interesting is through adversity, the changes organizations are making to improve how they manage the training function.

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It’s been too long since I blogged about IT learning, the amount of “real” work needed to be done so far in 2010 has been greater than normal (whatever that is). While this is good, it got me to thinking about IT training resourcing. We hear it all over the place, 2010 will be better than 2009. How the economy is rebounding and growth is coming back. But how do we in the IT Learning business prepare? Where should we be preparing and when should execute our plans?

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CFO Magazine published an article on February 15, 2006 that was entitled, “What's Wrong with Finance Training,“ by Randy Myers. I recently ran across this article in my files, and I was getting ready to shred it until I re-read it and noticed how little has changed in the last four years.

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