Routing & Switching

If You Want It Done Right Do It Yourself (1)

February 21, 2013 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Why not? You’ve had the experience. You’ve made the mistakes and learned from them. Why not prevent others from making the same mistakes? Why run the risk that an inexperienced team member will cost you time, money or even a client? Isn’t it your job as a leader to see that the best practices are consistently applied? Yes and no! One important objective of most work teams is to produce the best possible product or service and it is the leader’s job to see that that outcome is achieved. But, how do you assure that happens?

Understanding PaaS Market Confusion

February 21, 2013 Hank Marquis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market is maturing. There are many PaaS service offerings now, so many are getting confused about what PaaS is and isn’t.

We can get some help from the internationally accepted NIST definition of cloud computing (pub 800-145). NIST defines PaaS as the capability “to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider.”

How To Improve Purchasing Performance By Categorizing Suppliers

February 20, 2013 Michael Scarborough Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

As mentioned earlier, one of the most useful pieces of guidance that ITIL provides relates to the categorization of suppliers. ITIL describes four categories of suppliers:

7 Sales Force Development Trends

February 20, 2013 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

What changes are you already seeing in the sales landscape in 2013? Forum’s research shows there are 7 major marketplace trends facing sales organizations today. Download the 7 Sales Force Development Trends Handbook to:
• Discover the trends and how they could impact your company
• Get tips on how you can prepare your sales team to face these hurdles head on

7 Leadership Development Trends

February 20, 2013 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Talent shortages. A shift to collective leadership. These are just a few of the trends Forum’s research shows will be facing organizations in 2013. Download the 7 Leadership Development Trends Handbook to:
• Discover the top leadership development trends
• Get insights into how to face them head on and prepare your leads at the top, mid and first line levels.