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| Facilitating Operational Excellence |
January 2010 |
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Learning & Development - The Need for Tomorrow
In today’s economic climate, the challenges have never been greater for Learning and Development (L&D). Need-based training are now a thing of the past.
Today, organizations are building their employee plan on two bedrocks- A comprehensive role-based training, that goes beyond an ad-hoc training engagement to make an empirical difference to the workforce competence, followed by impact that the L&D organization is able to have on the company’s bottom line.
Given the above and the backdrop of business priorities, L& D functions are placing their bet on assessing the capability of the talent pool and care crafting development programs for smaller groups than going for the conventional one size fit-all training programs. This considerably reduces the spends.
With “talent management” in focus again, the L& D function is also to see how it can be relevant to an individual’s aspirations by choosing vendors' learning-paths over mere training programs.
Now, it is for the learning industry to gear up and be relevant to the L&D community by providing comprehensive three pronged offerings around Assessment, Training and Certifications.
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Quick Links to QAI |
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| Client Engagement |
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| IMC, Egypt and QAI Work Together for a Process Improvement Journey of 20 IT companies |
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QAI works with the Industrial Modernization Center (Egypt) for a project to provide CMMI® services for 20 Egyptian IT companies as a part of building organizations' capability for executing outsourcing projects and improving competitiveness.
IMC is an autonomous body under the Government of Egypt and is prime agent for achieving Egypt government's vision of a vibrant and globally competitive industrial sector.
“I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to you and our esteemed team.
QAI team's dedication and professionalism made the project great success. Their insight has allowed achieving the project deliverables successfully. They greatly contributed in cooperation with SECC team in developing Egyptian companies' capabilities to be able to compete in the global market place. Looking forward to continuing and building professional working relationship between us.
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Dr. Gamal Mohamed Aly
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| Software Certifications Survey |
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| After certifying over 38,000 professionals worldwide, the Software Certifications Board conducted a survey amongst 3,500 active |
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certificate holders. Some of the major findings of the survey highlighted that more than 90% of the certified sample population believes that getting certified added value to their career and gave a boost to their confidence and also led to recognition amongst peers.
View complete survey report. |
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Case Study:
Reviewing Size Estimates |
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| The Reviewing Size Estimates case study features a third party review on the development and cost product customizations, for a global systems integration and business transformation consulting firm. |
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White Paper:
Project Management |
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| This month's white paper is on trends and global delivery models, titled “Business Process Harmonization and Solution Implementation in a Diverse Multi-Culture Organization” from QAI's Best Practice Warehouse. |
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Workforce Development
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Software Certifications Reduces Cost for Managerial Level Certifications |
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| In an effort to make management level certifications more readily available to IT quality practitioners, Software Certifications has lowered the cost of both, Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST) and Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ) certifications. For more |
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QAI's ITIL® V3 Foundation Gets CITREP, Singapore Endorsed |
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| QAI recently launched, Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP) endorsed ITIL® V3 Foundation course in Singapore. CITREP is a training incentive programme to equip Singapore infocomm professionals with critical and emerging skills, thus enabling them to enhance their employability and to improve their organizations' competitive advantage. Under the new programme scheme, candidates appearing for QAI's ITIL® V3 Foundation training and certification will be able to claim up to 80% of their training and |
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QAI Turns 30! |
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| This year marks the 30th anniversary of QAI. The organization was founded by Mr. William E. Perry, in 1980 in Orlando Florida, USA. QAI takes pride in being one of the first and longest running professional organizations to recognize the need for quality assurance of the |
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QAI Global Institute Publishes its Trainings Calendar for Q1, 2010 |
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| The January – March 2010 instructor led trainings schedule is now available on the QAI Global Institute website. Plan ahead for training in the U.S., Canada, India, UK, and China, or consider attending a live, on-line webinar designed to prepare participants for professional |
| certifications. To view the calendar, please click on the link. |
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The All New QAI Membership Program Launched |
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| The QAI Global Institute is proud to announce a new and improved membership program, beginning from January 31, 2010. Some current benefits will change and new ones will be added. We believe that these changes will help you improve your skills and assist you in remaining up-to-date. Some of the new benefits include, access to pre-recorded webinars, materials from QAI conferences, as well a FREE e-learning |
| “course of the month”. Look for more information coming soon! |
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Organizational Improvement Solutions from
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http://www.qaiglobal.com/ |
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Service Management: New Rules for the Game |
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| With almost 80% of the world’s economy revolving around services, effective service management is now more critical for providers now, than ever. Service Management models help integrate functions, implement process improvement priorities, and provide a point of reference for appraisals. Thereby, facilitating continued excellence in provision of services. For more information on service management, |
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ESSAR to Adopt the People CMM® Framework to Manage and Develop Workforce |
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| Essar Information Technology Limited (EITL), a subsidiary of the Essar Group, a multinational conglomerate in the sactors of steel, energy, power, communication, shipping ports etc., will be the latest entity to implement the People CMM® Framework for its India facilities. To read |
| more about the People CMM® Framework, please click on the link. |
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Improving Competitiveness: the ICT Industry Association of Jordan Partners with QAI |
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| INTAJ, the ICT industry association of Jordan and USAID recently partnered with QAI to improve the competitiveness of the information and communication technology industry in Jordan. As a first project, seven top IT companies of Jordan will improve there software processes. The program is partially funded by USAID, and supported by INTAJ. |
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Some Recent Wins |
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| A few sign ups last month include: |
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| Sungard |
Software Process Improvement |
| TESCO |
Business Process Improvement |
| Siemens |
Innovation Management |
| Mimos |
Human Capital Management |
| APS Bank |
Trainings on Software Testing |
| TIME Engineering Berhad |
Software Process Improvement |
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| CMMSM Integration, IDEAL, and SCAMPISM are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University. Capability Maturity Model®, CMMI®, Capability Maturity Modeling, and CMM® are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. QAI is an ISEB and EXIN -accredited training provider for conducting the official ITIL® course at all 3 levels (Foundation, Practitioner, Manager). |
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