RE: iSeries Education (was iSeries vs. zSeries)

It's also interesting when you're an army of one. When you're a sole
proprietor, the cost of education is only part of it. The loss of a
week of billing can also be significant. Not that it's not doable - you
just need to think it through and make sure you're getting the
commensurate value for the dollar. Or Euro. Or whatever...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: iSeries Education (was iSeries vs. zSeries)
> From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, August 25, 2005 9:06 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > I used to work for a consultant.  Their philosophy towards education
> > > was that if they trained you it just made you more marketable and
> > > you'd leave the company.</clip>
> >
> 
> Hopefully this is not the norm. IBM has for many years required Business
> Partners
> to have certain certifications, forcing them to educate (and making a nice
> business practice of selling education).
> While the consultancy I worked with for 20 years did not give me "all" the
> education
> I wanted, we did rotate 2 of us to each Common, plus IBM classes, and
> required
> each consultant get the RPG Developer cert and a bonus for each cert after
> that. We
> never had the problem with people leaving after getting trained in areas.
> Those not
> interested in learning were considered "not team players", a detriment to
> our
> company image, and not in the best interest for our clients. In the end, we
> had 100%
> participation, including the owner.
> jim
> 
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> > Some consultant! The idea is to be able to charge a high rate for your
> > people because they are superior. It costs a bit more to educate and keep
> > them, sure, but the consultancy ought to be able to more than recoup that
> > in their higher fees. Clients are not usually impressed when their own
> > staff have to educate the consultants they're paying for (and neither are
> > the client's staff for that matter).
> >
> > --
> > Dave...
> 
> 
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