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.
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.
Every business ecosystem depends on some combination of these constituents, and the more they know about your products and services, the more profitable those relationships are likely to be.
Certainly, many LMSs position themselves as "good for anything you need," but the majority have trended intentionally or accidentally towards being "really good at something specific."
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If a vendor is not doing a consistently fantastic job in serving customers, the demand for references will always outweigh the supply.
Learning systems buyers are always more successful when they invest their limited time evaluating qualified vendors for their specific business situation vs. trying to qualify 700 vendors themselves.
Most associations are naturally positioned to succeed with reinvented member education programs because they're already widely known and respected in their industry.
If you're familiar with Talented Learning, you know we're fiercely independent consultants focused on one goal – to help you choose the best extended enterprise LMS for your needs.
LMS implementation is generally much faster, cheaper and easier than it was a decade ago, thanks largely to the massive shift toward cloud-based applications.
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