Emergn, a global services consultancy, today announced that it has launched Value Flow Quality (VFQ) Education, a work-based learning program to help practitioners achieve immediate business results through the application of skills in practice. VFQ helps practitioners meet the challenges of delivering IT-based projects, products and services today by focusing on a critical analysis of solutions that can then be implemented in day-to-day work.
VFQ was built and influenced by a community of practitioners, business leaders and IT executives from global enterprises whose collective experience helps users address and resolve challenges in their existing workload. In the process, users will develop the skills they need for continued success within ever-more demanding marketplaces. Unlike existing courses on the market, this approach challenges the ‘status quo’ of traditional Agile and Lean training through delivering this training – not just in a classroom – but in the workplace. Instead of focusing on a series of ‘how-to’ instructions, this course explores the thinking and principles behind the most popular methodologies.
The program is designed to help IT departments and business leaders who rely on technology to put in place smarter, more effective work practices to facilitate change, generate significant return on investment, and inspire innovation throughout the organization.
VFQ is tailored to a practitioner’s individual needs and responsibilities within an organization. The modular course structure allows VFQ to be accessed in several ways, including various learning pathways and qualifications for specific roles or methodologies, or a monthly subscription that provides access to all VFQ sessions. VFQ also qualifies practitioners by measuring how well they understand current principles and can apply them to their specific context through a series of extended workplace assignments.
“Companies today are challenged with maintaining the right balance of skills and competency within their own teams as well as balancing the investment of external expertise,” said Alex Adamopoulos, Chief Executive Officer of Emergn. “Our goal in creating and launching this unique education program is to help companies lower the total cost of transformation by giving people and their respective teams the tools they need to immediately work more effectively and meet current challenges.”
“New methods of working, such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban, have been sweeping the IT industry for years, and were designed to avoid the kind of monumental over-budget, behind-schedule blunders that often characterize large IT projects,” said Paul Dolman-Darrall, Executive Vice President for Strategy at Emergn. “The problem isn’t in the underlying methodology but rather in the training that exists around such ‘transformation’ processes, which often relies on a list of ‘practices’ to be rigidly followed, rather than a real understanding of why they work, and how to make them work. Our goal is to provide an environment that encourages ‘learning by doing’ to combine the best critical thinking about Agile and Lean practices with the latest advances in education delivery.”
About Emergn
Emergn is a global professional services consultancy that blends agile and lean principles to optimise the way organizations develop and deliver solutions across the enterprise. By offering a unique blend of agile and lean methodologies, Emergn operates as a thought leader in helping enterprises solve their complex organisational and IT business problems. As the leader in providing enterprise-wide enablement, Emergn has secured a strong benchmark of revenue and forecasted growth, and has earned an impressive list of partners, including British Airways, Maersk, UK Public Sector, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Standard Life, Thomson Reuters, and British Telecom.
Emergn is based in Boston, New York, London and Dublin.
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