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Training without Training

The Burden of Training

The paradox of the knowledge age: you need to constantly upgrade your skills but you don't have time for it. Whenever the boss or the HR department says it's time to go to a training, most people wince. We understand your problem. After all, training takes time away from work. When you get back to the office, the pile of work has grown and you will hardly retain what you picked up from the week-long training.

Training without Training 

IT Horror Stories

Case studies and white papers on IT success stories are -- to quote a totally un-Pinoy phrase -- a dime a dozen in the internet. Lots of companies (Microsoft is notorious for this) publish "white papers" that showcase how a company "leveraged" this technology or that and therefore gained X amount in terms of productivity and profitability. Mostly, these are just veiled marketing tactics and their technical value is neither here nor there.

Think fast, act faster

What will it take for us to shift to a product-based company? When we started out as Digital Solutions, we were a service-based, web development firm. Now we want to move forward, quickly, and be at the cutting edge.

To do this, we need to do the following:

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