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Fill Your Own Tech Talent Pool

CLO Magazine

But in a bustling economy where tech unemployment rates are less than 2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is a naive approach to recruiting — and it is getting in the way of progress. New Collar Jobs at IBM. IBM founded the P-TECH program in 2010 and it has since expanded to 90 schools nationwide, Jordan said.

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What it means that MS LifeScience Award Goes to 3D Virtual Conference Design

Kapp Notes

Event By now you've probably already heard that the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award 2010 has gone to a project that uses a 3-D virtual environment to hold a virtual scientific poster session. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Healthcare industry provided 14.3 And the impact is huge.

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Random 3D Virtual World Statistics

Kapp Notes

Sitting at my virtual desk gathering statistics. Here are some interesting Virtual World Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. The virtual world of Whyville, aimed at providing an educational virtual world for kids, turned 11 years old in March 2010. million to The Make-A-Wish Foundation in February 2010.

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Social Business by the Numbers

Marcia Conner

Seeking the source of a specific statistic that I included in a talk ? IBM’s 2012 CEO Survey of 1700 CEOs across the globe [released May 2012] tells many interesting things. From Harvard Business Review Analytics Services and SAS in The New Conversation: Taking Social Media from Talk to Action [pdf], June 2010.

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

Recent estimates from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics project a 22 percent increase in demand for professionals with management analysis skills between now and 2020. Ray Kurzweil as cited by IBM’s Tony Pearson ). Making Sense of Big Data , Technology Forecast from PWC (pdf), 2010. Data specific to the job market.

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Learning Academies 101: Everything You Need to Know

Degreed

In 2010, companies spent 271 billion on corporate training globally, and that spending increased by 37% in ten years. Bersin also lauds his old-school academy experience at IBM in the 1980s: “We had a sales academy like none other. What an extrodinary statistic! And they continue to remain successful.

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CLO Podcast: Visa’s Karie Willyerd on Learning Strategy

CLO Magazine

She started her own technology company, Jambok, in 2010, and took it from startup to sale in just over a year. And then you’d go and do some statistical analysis on all of the needs, add them all up. Karie’s also an entrepreneur. There’s 32,000 employees there, so it was almost twice as big, just a division, as Visa.

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