Adventures in Corporate Education

This is my response to last week’s #lrnchat. I was inspired to write it after watching an internal (EMC) discussion about training.
Anyone can perform the ID function
You heard me correctly. ANYONE.
I have to say I was so disappointed in last week’s #lrnchat when everyone kept dissing SMEs.
For my readers who are not education folks, ID [...]

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You may remember I invited everyone to get a sneak preview of EMC Education Service’s book about Information and Storage Management back in March. It was interesting doing a “soft launch” of the book over in the EMC Proven Professional Community on ECN.
The book is officially out now. You can go to the EMC Education [...]

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This past Saturday I attended the Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference. EMC is one of the main corporate sponsors of the event.
Here’s my recap of how the day went for me:
Opening Remarks
In addition to the leaders of Simmons School of Management, leaders from the primary corporate sponsors gave the opening remarks. Bill Teuber, Vice [...]

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I was able to attend the Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference courtesy of EMC’ Office of Diversity. It was wonderful. I connected with a Senior Manager from my part of the world (Florida), ladies from RSA, ladies from our IT and Shared Services depts.
I also spent alot of time with fellow EMC blogger Polly Pearson.
I have [...]

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Today EMC, the company I work for, launched a new addition to our core product line, the Symmetrix V-Max system. The official launch site is at overtakethefuture.com, and a very good blog round-up of the coverage is over at the Storage Anarachist’s site.
As you can probably tell from the coverage, this release is a very [...]

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