Building Resilient Systems

In all things data, resilience is a real thing. The current business focus on data includes big data, moving data to a cloud and a drive for mobile data. Each of these approaches addresses a different view of the same data by first adding context to understand what the data means, then processing and storing it efficiently, and finally making the contextualized data accessible everywhere. All of these actions sound good and look good in a presentation, but they also introduce security and system failure points. To reduce the failure points as you do something big, something cloud and something mobile with your data, you need to add resilience to your data systems.

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Training the Trainer How to Create Microlearning

Microlearning is a way to solve the problems facing educators and trainers of today: dwindling attention spans, knowledge workers with less time, companies’ shrinking budgets, and perhaps most challenging –technology’s rapid evolution that makes it expire nearly as fast as it’s produced.

Microlearningis a new kind of training for the digital age. This playbook offers strategies for applying this methodology to your own curriculum –a positive step in gaining back lost productivity and finding affordable, effective training for a more digitally capable workforce.

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How to Prepare for the PMP® and CAPM® Boot Camp

In my last article I explained why I think attending a well-built PMP boot camp is a critical step to being successful when writing the PMP exam. Simply put, there is so much complex theory to understand, most people find it helpful to have it explained in detail. They find working with other individuals who are working toward the same goal and having the opportunity to work with a facilitator who can explain the PMI methodology, are tangible benefits that are not available from reading a book.

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