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High Tech Leadership Certification Program Starts Sept. 7 in RTP, NC

Raleigh, NC (ContentDesk) August 10, 2006 -- CAI announces The High Tech Leadership Certification Program starting September 7, 2006 at the Sigma Xi facility in Research Triangle Park, NC. building trust with my team The 8-week High Tech Leadership Certification Program provides real-world, hands-on leadership skills training for managers and leaders in technical and scientific fields including biotech, high tech and pharmaceutical companies.

AI members who have previously participated in this program include Cormetech, SoftPro and Sigma Xi.A recent study by Blessing White indicated many challenging leadership issues for technical and scientific leaders.

The survey also indicated that "building collaborative relationships" and "communication at every level of the organization," "building trust with my team" and encouraging "risk taking and innovation" were key actions needed for leadership success.The program provides strategic leadership training specific to the technical and scientific industry with modules in strategic leadership thinking, team building, communication and change management. Kathryn Helene, the program leader, is an experienced facilitator and expert in organizational development at CAI.

Since 1997 she has specialized in the design and delivery of training to bio-tech, telecommunications, technical, engineering and information technology companies throughout the United States and Europe. The High Tech Leadership Seminar certification program takes place in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC at the Sigma Xi facility from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. over an 8-week timeframe. Session dates are September 7, 14, 22, 28 and October 5, 12, 19, and 26.

About CAICAI is a non-profit employers association serving the greater Research Triangle, Piedmont Triad, and 65 eastern counties of North Carolina. With offices in Raleigh and Greensboro, CAI provides over 1,200 member companies with executive, management and human resources information and services, including day-to-day telephone guidance, advice and training.


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New Course Teaches "Ancient Art" of IT Management
(Anonymous)
2006-08-30 03:48 pm UTC (link)
Starting this fall, applications support and maintenance company (and my client) RIS (http://www.risglobal.com/ASMCourses.html) will be teaching a course on Applications Support and Maintenance (ASM) as a continuing education course at Ryerson University.

ASM is the part of IT that deals with supporting, maintaining and upgrading companies’ existing, installed base of computer applications. And what's really interesting about it is that ASM knowledge and expertise is at risk of evaporating in the next decade as a result of an aging workforce.

You see, many companies today - banks being a primary example - still rely very much on legacy or mainframe applications and computer systems that were built 20...or event 30 years ago. Even if the people who developed them were only 20 at the time, that means they'll be hitting retirement soon, and likely aren't doing hands-on IT support now anyways.

As always, much of the demographic shift has to do with the baby boomers. This year the first of them are reaching age 60. In 2015 the effects will be more profound with the peak of the boomers reaching age 65.

So if if some of the banks' most important IT systems are 30 years old, and the people who know their inner workings are soon going to be long gone, who's going to know how to keep them running? As RIS puts it in their news release about the course, learning the "ancient art" of ASM makes a lot of sense.

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