Does your company face a looming exodus of Boomers retiring? Is there concern that the organizational knowledge they took years to acquire will leave with them? Does your company need to attract new talent? reduce costly turnover? develop talent at all levels? prepare new managers and leaders?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you will find the rest of this article useful.

A Corporate Mentoring Solutions White Paper by Dr. William A. Gray

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Is vendor certified product training always the best answer? In a certification driven industry, vendor authorized IT training is often taken for granted as the best option across the board. But does it always provide the best overall solution? This ASPE Technology white paper makes a strong case that independently developed training can provide better outcomes in many instances.  Find out how total cost of ownership and risk mitigation are driven by training, and which type is best for you.

An ASPE Technology White Paper By Tim Morris

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IT professionals and other technical specialists increasingly require business skills to succeed in and advance their careers.  Beyond technical competence they must be have interpersonal, financial and project management skills. 

This white paper analyzes the trend toward the increasing demand for general business knowledge by IT and other technical professionals, identifies the critical skills required and provides a roadmap for developing them.

A Lake Forest Corporate Education White Paper

Let's strap ourselves into the time machine and go back. Back to May 20, 1957, when F. E. James, Dallas director of the Texas Employment Commission said this about the shortage of skilled workers: "Companies around here still scream at us for every available skilled man.…[M]ost companies on their own have hunted the U.S. over and couldn't find the people they wanted." The article goes on to say, "The chief responsibility for obtaining skilled workers and constantly upgrading their skills rests on industry itself."

An Adayana, Inc. White Paper

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Did you know that Intellectual Property theft costs U.S. businesses alone an estimated $250 billion per year ? Intellectual property is one of the most critical resources of any business. Loss of any information that gives a company a competitive edge can be disastrous. Companies that have had their product's intellectual property stolen have lost product sales, lost market share, and reduced margins.

Due to the standardization of software engineering processes, pricing pressure, margin compression, and increased enterprise customer expectations (total cost of ownership and return on IT investment), software companies are faced with the task of accomplishing more complex product development with limited and decreasing time frames. Yet, few properly understand and mitigate the associated security and intellectual property risks when developing an offshore sourcing strategy.

This white paper discusses the existence of security and intellectual property risks and vulnerabilities in the distributed software development environments. It also addresses critical business issues to mitigate those risks with qualified risk management techniques, team collaboration tools, and, critically, a verification and audit process resulting in greater visibility of the software development process, improved security, and reduced risk of IP exposure.

An Altoros Systems Inc. White Paper, August 2007

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The primary focus of this white paper is on the impact of SOX requirements on an organization's IT systems, practices and controls. Specific IT areas that have relevance to SOX compliance activities include data center operations, system software maintenance, application development and maintenance, business continuity and application software integrity.

A Global Knowledge White Paper

Among the most critical priorities for enterprises and lines of business are controlling costs, meeting growth requirements, and managing risk. IT has been driven by corresponding trends that reflect those enterprisewide priorities, including the expanded use of Linux for core IT infrastructure and for application development. The success of these efforts largely depends on IT talent, and IDC believes that
certifications that represent a rigorous and meaningful proof of skills and competencies are tremendously valuable to near-term organizational success.

An IDC White Paper by Cushing Anderson

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The largest single expense for training organizations is the cost of instructors, both full-time staff instructors and contract instructors. Therefore, it is vital to thoroughly understand these instructors’ true and complete costs, how to compare staff and contract instructors, and when and how to use each of them. This is particularly important not only because of the increased frequency of contractor use, but also because of the many misconceptions about outsourcing contract trainers. These vital considerations can result in important strategic decisions that can significantly reduce costs and risks, but also increase sales and provide better levels of customer service.

By Victor J. Melfa, The Training Associates

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There has been an IT channel for as long as there has been an IT industry. Thousands of IT manufacturers rely on the channel to distribute their products to customers all over the world.  Although, it varies from industry to industry and company to company, about 60% of IT product transactions are run through the channel. Comprised of hundreds of thousands of VARs (Value Added Resellers), Solution Providers, System Integrators and a variety of other labels assigned to companies engaged in selling and implementing technology for its customers, vendors love the amount of revenue and margin they collect from the sometimes inefficient and difficult to manage channel.

By William Vanderbilt, NIIT, May 2007

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vLab is a mature enabling technology designed by NIIT Element K. It provides unprecedented access, availability, convenience, and economy when used in themanagement of technical lab infrastructure.

By Venkat Srinivasan, NIIT, June 2007

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Outsourcing any important business activity isn’t without either risk or challenge. Choosing the right partner is a decision with which a company may have to live for a long time, so it’s important that it be the right decision. A key factor – one of the most important factors – is how impartial that partner will be.

A Global Knowledge-UK White Paper, June 2007

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As technologies have become more complex, it is often difficult to find qualified IT professionals who have the desired knowledge, better skills and specialization capabilities. Successful organizations will recognize the critical importance of effectively managing the skills of their current IT professionals. They will also recognize that the first step in managing those IT skills is to have a detailed, objective and accurate inventory of the skills of their current staff as well as the skills required for their future projects. With the proper evaluation of detailed IT skills, organizations will be able to save time, money and optimize their hiring, training, project staffing and career development initiatives.

An IKM White Paper by Ken Strauss, 2007

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ITIL is gradually shifting the perceptions of best-practice organizations about competence building training as a cost, to one of maximizing values. This perception-shift is variably leading towards a global increase in demand for skills and knowledge delivered in a much shorter cycle time - in short, a greater demand for access, speed and ultimately, performance.

Today, as more and more organizations move towards an informed approach to ITIL implementation, competency building is becoming all about “getting critical training to key stakeholders, anytime, anywhere, cost-effectively.”

An ITpreneurs White Paper, 2006 

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Effective training reduces “time to proficiency,” as well as overall training time, and empowers users in all regions to interact fully with new software and embrace new business processes. This, in turn, helps to engage, support, and improve the productivity of your global workforce. This paper discusses a five phased approach to effective user training in global ERP deployments.

A Lionbridge White Paper, February 2005.

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For some time, the authors' have been developing what they call a two-dimensional model for measuring project performance and project management training. The model was initiated as a quality management tool and has evolved through the recent activity regarding Project Maturity Models to the current stage of predicting project outcomes and the content, timing and format of training.

A PMForum White Paper, 2005

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This paper addresses the concept of establishing a community-wide intelligence education framework that meets the needs of intelligence professionals at all levels of federal, state, and local government. In its current form, Intelligence Education and Training (IET) is composed of many schools and programs that cover the intelligence cycle. However, IET lacks a converged approach with standards by which intelligence education is available in a consistent form, focused on producing intelligence professionals in all areas.

A Northrop Grumman White Paper, 2005.

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