Training BPO (TBPO; Business Process Outsourcing) has changed considerably since the late ‘90’s when some believed it actually took root as a viable business strategy for training leaders. There’s no question that all training organizations continue to outsource some part of their training activities. But few large companies outsource all or large parts of their training processes. Of the ones that do, few like to talk about it publicly making it difficult to hear about the successes and failures.
As an outsourcing analyst and consultant, I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to meet and work with many of the companies who have done large scale outsourcing deals. What I’ Read more…
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Used to be that if you worked in information technology or provided training for the IT field you; 1) listed Star Wars, Star Trek and any Monty Python movie as the best movies ever!; 2) Thought that calculus was somewhat easier then talking with the opposite sex; and 3) communicated only in cryptic Unix shell commands to friends and family. For most of us, it’s good that things are different now.
For us in the IT training field we see ourselves having grown it to an industry onto itself. We are more likely to hear IT training referred to as the “IT Training Industry” – or at least IT Training being referred to as a hugely important subset of the entire overall training industry.
IT training is no longer just about the field in which we teach about computers, how they work, how fast they work or how to fix them when they crash. The IT t
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