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Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management (CESM) retains
Bobby Rettew, llc for Video Messaging Initiatives
Columbia, SC | March 12, 2010
The Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management (CESM) has retained Bobby Rettew, llc to create, produce, and distribute targeted video messages over the next year to promote the initiatives of CESM. These online messages will be created and distributed using multiple distribution strategies including email marketing, social networks, and other online outlets.
The Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management aims to increase the number of people in the talent pipeline who can apply information technology to meet the needs of companies.
The Consortium is particularly focused on attracting and developing IT professionals who can use enterprise systems, or large-scale computer systems, to process high-volume transactions to meet businesses' needs.
Working to strengthen the IT talent pool from the classroom to the boardroom will foster economic development by attracting more IT companies and creating new opportunities in South Carolina and the Southeast.
The Consortium was created in December 2008 and plans to move soon into a new facility in Columbia, S.C., that will house a data center, meeting rooms and classrooms for camps for high school students, training for professionals and research for businesses. IBM is contributing hardware and software for this facility. Other technology vendors, as Consortium partners, also will help provide infrastructure.
By combining state-of-the-art infrastructure with a focus on hands-on learning and applied research, the Consortium expects to foster pilot projects and entrepreneurial efforts. The Consortium aims to provide a hub of intense activity aimed at promoting opportunities, nurturing professional development, cultivating relationships, inspiring innovation and celebrating success in IT.
The Consortium plans to duplicate this model for collaboration and hands-on learning at existing facilities throughout the Southeast.
Fewer high school and college students are preparing to pursue careers in information technology. At the same time, many IT professionals are beginning to retire. The problem of decreasing knowledge and experience is compounded by the increasing complexity of IT solutions at the core of successful businesses.