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Appirio Acquires VMG
It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce that VMG has been acquired by Appirio. Appirio has been a strong partner to VMG since VMG’s founding, and this is a natural evolution of the growing partnership between our two organizations. We are proud to join the amazing Appirio ... Read More
7 tips to help your learning go viral
So you'd like to see your training go viral huh? Whether it's for sales, technical, customers, partners or internal to your organization, there are some clear guidelines to make this happen. At VMG, we love the cloud, so I'm going to reference one of the best in the business on ... Read More
The Classroom Is Empty: Learning in the Cloud
This post was originally published in the September 2010 VMG newsletter. Sign up for our newsletter to get first-look at new articles like this: ... Read More
When Infrastructure Gets Sexy: Redefining “Back to Basics”
Infrastructure gets sexy President Obama recently announced a major infrastructure initiative to improve our highways ,bridges, rails, and runways. One would think that a well-maintained infrastructure would be a given for a global economic super power like the ... Read More
Thinkin’ big, startin’ small
'Start Small, Think Big, Scale Fast' is a phrase I've heard a few times from our Chairman, Tom Kraack. What happens when a company has already become big? Years of processes, teams upon teams, re-org upon re-org. Can they still start small, think big innovative thoughts, and then take that ... Read More
Underpants Gnomes Business Strategy
One of the great gifts of being a consultant (and a good reason to hire one occasionally) is the capacity it provides to observe an organization as an outsider. Over my career, on numerous occasions, I’ve been astounded at the ability of very smart business people to ignore ... Read More
Cloud/SaaS Knowledge Ecosystem: The Players
I’ve spent the past couple of days with some of the VMG team brainstorming about the opportunities we see in the Cloud/SasS market and how we want to approach them. One of the first things we did was to map out what that ecosystem looks like and how the knowledge ... Read More
Different and the Same
When I was a kid, I really liked doing a little puzzle game that presented two pictures. On the surface, they looked the same. But there were differences, and my job was to figure out what was the same and what was different. My obsession with this game is probably ... Read More
VMG Announces Tom Kraack as Chairman
Recognized Industry Leader Provides Expertise, Dexterity and Depth San Francisco, CA, March 31, 2010—VelocityMG, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise learning for the cloud computing industry, today announced the appointment of Tom Kraack as Chairman. Kraack joins VMG with more than 25 years of leadership experience in Learning BPO and IT, having ... Read More
The Next Big Thing
In December of 2009, I retired from Accenture after 8 terrific years. This month I joined VMG, a new venture startup. I have an unorthodox career history. I recall some job choices that left my professional colleagues believing that my consumption of adult beverages combined with long Minnesota winters had ... Read More


