In the dystopian 1973 sci-fi thriller Soylent Green, detective Frank Thorn discovers one of the primary food rations of the world in 2020- Soylent Green- is made of processed human remains. “Soylent green is people” is a climactic and most famous quote from the movie. The title of this article …
Thinking about moving your business to the Cloud? Prioritize Education.
Uneducated opinion, rather than an educated decision, is more likely going to kill your efforts to transition to a cloud service model. I was teaching a class at a company that already had a private cloud for application development and testing. Upper management had already bought into the idea. The cloud …
Online training provides more Business Value than In Person, Instructor-Led Training (ILT).
I get it, we’ve been taking part in instructor-led training (ILT) really since day one. Our basic and most of our advanced education was ILT driven. It’s familiar, it’s comfortable. We want that reassurance that if we have a question, we’ll get the instant gratification of one-on-one attention. Right? This is …
How to Scale an SME (Subject Matter Expert)
The challenges of the Subject Matter Expert (SME): time is finite, expertise is scarce, demands are plentiful. When an SME is faced with the need to allocate time to share their knowledge, there is often a tension between educating and putting that expertise to other duties. In some situations, an …