Entries in the category "Certification"
How Certification Can Help Translate Knowledge Into Results
Here are the visual aids from this afternoon's talk at the APMG Showcase event in Toronto.
You might wonder how certifications can help with results - well it's not a direct cause & effect; the point of my talk is that you need to VERIFY that the training & certification you have...
A Pink Treasure!
This week fellow Pinker Robin Hysick and I are sitting in on two of our ITSM Intermediate courses at the Winter Education Symposium here in Orlando, Florida. We have all 4 Capability courses - SOA, RCV, PPO, OSA - as well as the MAL course going in the convention centre of...
My Presentation - “4 Rules For Transferring Knowledge Into Results”
4_Rules_For_Transferring_Knowledge_Into_Results.pdf
Cost v Value? Look At The Big Picture When Planning Your Training
Chatting to our staff here in the Kuala Lumpur office I'm hearing stories about customers who decide to go with competitors to save a few dollars (And it really is a small saving, some of our competitors just go slightly below Pink prices just to be able to say "we're...
Rant Alert! - A Unique Perspective On Pass Rates From EXIN
So EXIN thinks that there's only one criterion for whether you pass an exam or not - how prepared you are. In other words it's all up to you! Hmm.
Don't you think the quality of the exam has something to do with it? For example, what if the questions...
Rant Alert! - Accreditation Has Teeth, At Last
Great to see that, as of the start of this year, Loyalist Certification Services (Pink's primary supplier of examinations in North America) has decided to only supply exams to training providers who are accredited.
We've been campaigning for this since day 1 (literally) and it just goes to show that if...
Rant Alert! - APMG’s UKAS Accreditation Update?
Remember this post, from November 1 last year?
http://blogs.pinkelephant.com/index.php?/president/comments/apmg_accreditation_status_with_ukas/
There's been no public statement from APMG since. I wonder if they've given up on the UKAS designation, or maybe the path to reaccreditation is not so straight forward. I'm...
IT Governance and Employee Compliance
Last August we presented a special Symposium focused on IT Governance. One of the speakers was Lisa Welsher from Right Process. She talked about the challenges of getting people to take accountability for policies and procedures, especially when legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is requiring organizations to do the...