3-year contract to supply ITIL v3 training to Royal Dutch Shell-employees 

Amsterdam, 22 February 2010 – Royal Dutch Shell plc has selected Quint Wellington Redwood as its partner for ITIL version 3 education. The coming three years Quint will supply ITIL courses worldwide for Shell employees.

Training
Target staff within the Shell organization includes IT Business Interface staff; operational IT staff; team leaders in operations management roles; IT service managers and IT process owners. Quint offers the Intermediate, Expert and Master modules of ITIL v3 and the Bridging modules between ITIL v2 and v3.

One of the reasons Royal Dutch Shell plc has chosen Quint is the capability to offer training worldwide in different learning types, deploying local staff. Learning types include open enrollments, classroom based, virtual and e-learning.

Dick Smith, IT Learning Advisor at Shell Learning, about the co-operation with Quint: “Quint has an extensive range of high quality ITIL learning options and they have staff in all our main IT centers. This makes them a great partner for us in our efforts to have best-in-class courses that build important capabilities in our IT staff, available for us to use globally and in simple and efficient ways”.

Contribution to Royal Dutch Shell’s Objectives
Brigitte Noordegraaf, partner at Quint, about the co-operation with Royal Dutch Shell plc: “We are proud to be the worldwide partner of Shell. It underlines the fact that we are a solid and truly worldwide company.”

René Hagen, COO and responsible for Global Education Services, about the education program:  “With our courses we will contribute to an understanding of the best practice framework within the IT department of Royal Dutch Shell plc. This will help Shell IT-staff to function on a higher level.”

Educational Services
Quint Academy offers a broad selection of courses that support its consultancy and the implementation of organizational changes. The courses provide professionals with the necessary knowledge and competences, allowing them to contribute to the organizational changes. This way, the result of the organizational change is actively guaranteed. Over the past five years, Quint has trained and certified over 100,000 people in 79 countries worldwide. The courses were given by international trainers from the twenty countries where Quint has offices. Quint Academy is worldwide accredited (by APMG and IAOP) for providing specific sourcing courses, service management courses such as ITIL® 3, ISO20.000 and project management courses.

Quint Wellington Redwood
Quint Wellington Redwood – ‘Quint’ - is the global, independent management consulting firm specializing in IT-related organizational challenges. We "Dare to Challenge" ourselves as well as your organization to ensure maximizing your return on investment. Continuously developing and using the world's best people and best practices, we bring to your organization our unique "leveraged consulting" approach. Through continuous worldwide development and deployment of knowledge and experience on IT-related organizational challenges, we are "thought leaders" and "practice leaders" at the same time.

Providing both solution providers, as well as end-user organizations with the latest and best solutions in knowledge transfer and knowledge application for strategy & governance, sourcing and service management is how we contribute to the worldwide advancement of IT-management.

More information about Quint please go to http://www.quintgroup.com/.

For more information:
Quint Wellington Redwood
Marlieke Muller              
Phone: +31 (0)20 - 305 3700    
E-mail: info_netherlands@quintgroup.com