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Our Services
Our services help you improve the effectiveness, efficiency,
and impact of your enteprise learning and talent management
programs and systems.
All our offerings are built around our What Works™
research, available for purchase or through our Research
Membership Program.
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your learning organization.

Our services fall into the following areas:
Research Memberships: If you are trying
to better refine your strategy, improve operational efficiency,
increase your impact, or select a product or service you should
join our research membership program. Members have access
to our entire research library, workshops, webinars, and advisory
services.
Strategy and Advisory Consulting: We
perform strategy projects to help you decide when to purchase
an LMS, how to architect the right blending strategy, how to
set up your content development organization, and which vendors
to select for content and content services. In these projects
our goal is to help you "do the right things."
Research members can call us any time to schedule briefings
or to discuss strategic issues.
High Impact Learning Workshops: A critical
part of our services is the delivery of on-site workshops
to help your organization improve your organization, better
understand how to develop e-learning, manage your LMS, or improve
your governance and operations. A key new part of our
workshop: Building the High Impact Learning Organization.
Read more about it and join
us.
Benchmarking: We have the largest and
most complete database of industry research (statistics, costs,
best practices, implementation approaches) in corporate training.
Our benchmarking program is designed to give you specific, actionable
information to improve your learning operations. Our benchmarking
program builds on our Learning Organization Assessment®,
a detailed 12-part analysis consisting of 90 different benchmarking
questions to help you understand where you can improve.
Technology Selection and Implementation: We
help clients select the right LMS, select the right LCMS,
and develop an e-learning technology blueprint.
This blueprint is an overall architecture of your development,
deployment, and measurement systems and how they will interface
with other systems in your company. Our LMS Selection
Services will take you through the entire LMS selection process
and make sure you select and rapidly implement the right product.
Vendor Services: We work very closely
with e-learning vendors to provide them market research, marketing
services, product strategy, and sales assistance. If
you are a small or large e-learning vendor, call us.
You should subscribe to our research through our vendor research
subscription and set up a conference call to discuss what
we can do to help you grow your business.
Examples of Corporate Consulting Engagements:
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How to organize the learning function. We
have helped dozens of companies establish a business
plan for learning, establish the right governance model,
set standards and support models for technology, and
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Helping organizations define their enterprise
learning strategy - how to get started, what tools, vendors,
and approaches to use, how to get into effective e-learning
at a low cost; |
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LMS Vendor analysis, selection, development
of RFPs, and negotiation for final pricing; |
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Definition of content development and
acquisition strategies, including blended learning elements
for simulations, streaming video, and live e-learning; |
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Definition of content development and
acquisition strategies, including blended learning elements
for simulations, streaming video, and live e-learning; |
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Benchmarking studies to pinpoint best
practices in your industry or application segment; and |
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Development of a measurement and analysis
program to ensure that you are getting a return on investment
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Examples of Vendor Consulting Engagements:
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Product marketing, development of product positioning
documents, whitepapers, and sales presentations;
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Product strategy and development of MRD and PRD documents;
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Competitive assessment and development of sales tools;
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Customer research: win/loss studies, customer
satisfaction surveys, and customer implementation benchmarking
services.
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