Training Masterclass in unlocking IT efficiency?

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Added by Chris Gabriel, 2 months ago.

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As the economic waters continue to look as turbulent as the UK's rivers, businesses are continuing to look to their IT departments for increased business value.

Keeping up to speed with new products, the latest upgrade or feature, or tackling the big bet strategies to rationalize the Data Centre are just as important in a downward economic cycle as they are in the boom times; in fact more so.

A recent article in Personnel Today suggested that training budgets will start to come under increasing pressure, but that businesses must continue to invest in training that allows their people to work smarter and deliver business value.

The main thrust of the article was that when investing in training you must ensure that "the training each person receives going to make a significant contribution to improving their value to the organisation through increased efficiency?"

IT departments are already trying to tackle bigger efficiencies than this; they are trying to make the entire IT infrastructure more efficient, and this must be recognised as a worthwhile investment in time, if not money.

Logicalis recently launched its Masterclass education program, and while free of charge workshops are always attractive, the best response we have had so far is for those sessions that focus on making IT delivery more efficient.

Clearly though, when offering ‘education' workshops we as an industry must now stay clear of giving the audience a marketing pitch, however short it might be, but a true training activity that adds value every second of the session.

It is still a big mindset shift though, and we must all now move to our events adding significant contributions to business value, and not on the quality of the breakfast or the buffet.

If you can deliver a robust training session on the latest Enterprise Linux Server, Linux on Mainframe, or best practice ILM and Data Management techniques in 2-3 hours, and focus on quality content and avoid focussing on the fancy venue or cool giveaway then you're tuning into how your attendee will now value their time.

It's now all about value not venue.

Logicalis Masterclass can be found at www.uk.logicalis.com/masterclass