Reaching Corporate Potential
Learning Systems have the potential to increase employee productivity, reduce the cost of mistakes and provide lifetime learning for employees. The requirement is to blend best practice teaching, learning and development techniques into a complex global IT infrastructure with multiple systems, standards and differing network performance characteristics.
A Successful Learning System implementation is vital to ensure:
- Staff make optimal use of the systems provided.
- The promised efficiencies from £ multi-million systems and office automation are achieved.
- Compliance with professional bodies for continual learning e.g. HSE, CSR, ACCA, CIMA, legal etc.
- Opportunity to develop, promote and monitor staff development to a high quality at the lowest possible administrative cost is achieved.
Learning Systems - When Learning Strategy and Technology meet
Learning Systems (LS) are the core interface between the human learning requirement and the corporate IT infrastructure. Often the LS has been implemented with a massive investment so wisdom architects objective is to help you get best value from the system in terms of; how this is being used and/or overcome the limitations and problems that it presents.
wisdom architects have structured yet flexible templates to transform LS technologies that may be poorly performing from the human interface, the corporate infrastructure or in some instances both human and corporate infrastructures.
wisdom architects experience and flexible template driven approach, ensure that the best possible solution within the environment is achieved, common 'gotchas' are avoided, well written and supported software is always used where available. wisdom architects approach ensures that costs and implementation times are minimised.
Today many learning systems fail to live up to expectations. The outcome of many deployments is often, at best, hit and miss. The reason for this is:
- Many LS's are often not sufficiently prioritised within change programmes nor designed/planned in sufficient detail to maximise the learning opportunity.
- Contending perspectives and priorities often exist between learning and technology departments.
- The LS review/refresh life cycle is sufficiently infrequent that no up-to-date, detailed in-house expertise exists.
- Consulting from learning management system vendors and learning content providers are not independent and are biased to selling their product and associated service.
- Projects are often defined in consultant billing days rather than delivery of agreed business objectives success criteria.
- No standards for achieving best practice exist.
The Key Skills wisdom architects bring to all projects are:
- Independence from vendors and content providers, but with a deep understanding of the offerings and where they are best utilised.
- Standards, processes and training programs to ensure best practice and results are achieved by all Wisdom Architects.
- Dual competency of both the technology tiers and of learning and development programs.
- Major Corporation team-based approaches.
