Training Best Practices/Do you need one?
Training Best Practices/Do you need one?
Title:
[edit | edit source]LMS: Do You Need one?Yas
Description:
[edit | edit source]Nicole Vikhlyantsev has consulted on a wide variety of projects. Based on her extensive research she has found a pretty consistent formula for success in determining whether you need an LMS or not.
Methods Used
[edit | edit source]Assess the number of customers you currently have or plan to have.
Consider what is being captured; how much effort needs to go into this? How will the results be used? How valuable is this information to the organization?
Results
[edit | edit source]If the answer is less than five customers, you don't need an LMS. Or, maybe you need Moodle. However, if each of your customers has already spent more than one million USD, you might want to get them one anyway.
Technologies Used
[edit | edit source]Mostly right brain stuff
Lessons Learned
[edit | edit source]- People will get angry with you if you spend their money unnecessarily.
- Owning an LMS does not make you seem cool or sexy.
- an LMS will not solve anything. However it is a great business tool to solve problems in the hands of the competent.
- This advice is completely free
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