Posts by Joey van Kuilenburg
New Horizons Trains the IT Generation of Tomorrow with ITpreneurs Products
We’ll explore in this partner case study how a true strategic partnership strengthens the knowledge and skills enabling workers to excel in the workplace. Not many organizations can claim having more than 300 training centers in over 35 countries, over 2,100 classrooms, and more than 2,400 instructors. New Horizons is one of the handful of…
Read MoreUsing COBIT to Grow Your Training Business
In today’s rapidly changing digital environment, ISACA’s COBIT framework is designed to help enterprises understand how to obtain value and manage risk relating to information and technology. Rather than providing in-depth detailed guidance for specific domain experts, the COBIT approach provides a set of objectives that ought to be fulfilled, understandable to anyone at a…
Read MoreKnowledge Byte: The Basics And Principles of Effective Communication
Good communication is fundamental to almost every human endeavor. It is important to consider how organizations and people can develop and deploy communication to the best effect as part of their service management work. Learners are encouraged to take this as basic guidance and develop it with continual study and practice. Good communication is essential…
Read MoreComparing The Top 5 Best Video Conferencing Apps
With the outbreak of COVID19 across the globe and subsequent quarantine, the value of video conferencing apps and software has skyrocketed. Not only is this true for the stock market, with Zoom seeing a large increase in value, but in terms of our personal value. These video calls are the closest we can safely come…
Read MoreVirtual Classroom Training Experience
At the beginning of the lockdown season, I attended a couple of webinars on how to deal with the current situation where we have to move our activities (training, consulting, mentoring, coaching, facilitating, etc.) from the face-to-face environment to a virtual environment. In case of training we could argue there are three types of delivery:…
Read MoreKnowledge Byte: The Methods and Techniques for Continual Improvement You Need to Know
The scope of the continual improvement practice includes the development of improvement-related methods and techniques and the propagation of a continual improvement culture across the organization in alignment with the organization’s overall strategy. Different types of improvements may require consideration for different improvement methods. For example, some improvement initiatives may be best implemented as a…
Read MoreThe Best 25 Tools And Apps Used By Remote Learners
The rate of adoption of new technologies in our day-to-day lives seems to have exponentially increased in the past decade. With the increasing necessity to adapt to remote work and learning, this trend became even more prevalent. This has led to an urgent need to look for new tools that capitalize on the benefits of…
Read MoreITIL®4: The Six Steps in the Path to Optimization
I’ve recently found myself thinking about the seventh ITIL®4 principle, “Optimize and Automate”, more than usual. Fascinatingly, it is not uncommon I see organizations putting the focus on the second element of the principle before accounting for the first one. There are talks of automation prior to adequate optimization. Let’s be clear about one thing:…
Read MoreThe Overlooked Advantages of Learning From Home
There are a number of reasons leading professionals to consider learning from home. Be it to fill in the spare time during annual leave, to upskill during self-isolation from a pandemic, or simply to give one’s career a boost. Due to the somewhat recency of remote learning, it’s not always immediately clear what its value…
Read MoreKnowledge Byte: Exploring the PESTLE Model
Service providers do not work in isolation. Therefore, external factors can influence the way they work. The PESTLE model helps analyze these factors. Political factors are about how the government can impact an organization and the way they work. Economic factors impact the way an organization does business and profitability. Social factors impact customers’ needs…
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