Learning Systems Blog

These diverse disciplines must work in concert to ensure that your learning program is woven into your organization's broader ecosystem and workflows. It's not easy, but a strategic approach helps.

Learning systems agility isn't just about technology; it's about flexibility and speed across the board – including your business model, content strategy and operational workflows, as well as your learning ecosystem.

Decision-makers are under intense pressure to modernize their systems, so they can create, promote, deliver, measure and expand digital offerings as rapidly as possible. As a result, learning technology ecosystems are facing extraordinary scrutiny.

If the buyer hasn't shared enough of the right information to help you craft a compelling, coherent, complete - and differentiating - proposal, it's your responsibility to ask for more input, but be prepared to explain why this is critical and why they should care.

Of course, there are countless ways to skin the learning measurement cat; below are bits of wisdom worth taking with you, no matter what tools or techniques you use when tracking, evaluating and improving results.

To add insult to injury, although the CE Buyer is a large organization, the level of support provided by the LMS vendor was minimal-to-non-existent, and vendor executives were nowhere to be found.

First, recognize that hundreds of systems are designed to support training, but many are unlikely to meet your organization's specific needs and budget, which means that your job is to zero-in quickly on the handful of systems that actually deserve your consideration.

During the last decade, hundreds of new learning systems entered the market. It seemed like everyone simultaneously had the same idea – an LMS should focus on learners and the process of learning.

Look for ways to leverage your strengths – which likely include the value of trust, a vetted community of practitioners and an industry perspective that comes from decades of involvement with that community.

It's our job to evolve and adapt the program in a way that helps franchisees meet their objectives, while keeping in mind that we want to put out the best training we can to support DQ brand objectives.

With hundreds of LMS solutions available, how do you keep them straight? We organize by use case. Here 7 groups with 65 examples...

Associations are rapidly moving live events online. Those with a specialized solution are the best-prepared. Learn which association LMS features are best...

An extended enterprise LMS is designed from the ground up to sell content to individuals, organizations and even through reseller networks. What should you expect from LMS ecommerce functionality?

While following these stories of digital transformation, we've discovered many valuable tools and services that are available at no cost in response to Covid-19.

From now on, your organization's survival will likely depend on your ability to educate customers, prospects, channel partners and other external audiences, in addition to employees.

In the past, organizations primarily harvested descriptive information about prospects, customers and product performance; but now, more companies also extract both predictive and prescriptive intelligence from customer and business data.

Cornerstone is acquiring Saba. What does this mean for organizations that buy learning systems, and for other LMS vendors? Our lead analyst, John Leh, shares his point of view...

If a vendor is not doing a consistently fantastic job in serving customers, the demand for references will always outweigh the supply.

Despite strong interest in analytics and an awareness of its strategic importance, many learning professionals are struggling to make it work.

Already, AI advances are racing ahead, with technologies like 5G and blockchain paving the way for other innovations like the Internet of Things, real-time analytics and more.