E-Learning

Business Case and Learning Strategy

Business Case

GP applies a systematic approach to analyzing and documenting the costs and benefits of the proposed capital investment of your e-learning software. This approach establishes a baseline; identifies alternatives; determines costs, benefits, and risks; evaluates economic impact; compares alternatives; formulates recommendations; and finally, outlines how to measure the success of your e-learning initiative.

In addition of making the case for the technology, the business case also looks at content and the anticipated cost savings of migrating your training to a blended solution. The benefits and savings would be calculated on:

• Student Training Day Cost Avoidance—The conversion of classroom-based courses to web-based will free-up training resources, and reduce training expenditures by reducing total student days.
• Savings from Compressed Learning Time—There are significant savings derived from the compressed learning time of online coursework versus instructor-led courses. For computation, content developers typically calculate that every two hours of classroom instruction can be completed in one hour on-line.

Learning Strategy

The Learning Strategy is a critical first step for establishing a clear vision of your organization's e-learning goals, and a realistic plan to get you there. We recognize that training is typically part of a larger initiative so we examine your IT infrastructure, cultural readiness, training needs, and business processes to create a learning architecture that blends the appropriate level of classroom and web-based learning. Our objective approach ensures unbiased recommendations, free from the influence of technology providers.

• IT Infrastructure Assessment—Through a detailed analysis of your current state of enterprise technology and capabilities, we identify your corporate systems - Human Resource (HR), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), security, email, and scheduling - in order to map out the needed integration.
• Cultural Readiness Assessment—This critical step determines the cultural readiness of your organization to migrate to web-based training, creates a strategy to build an e-learning culture, and identifies barriers to implementation and utilization. We then develop an appropriate change management strategy to ensure the success of your e-learning initiative.
• High Level Training Needs Assessment—This phase reviews the competencies of the learners within the enterprise and identifies any performance gaps that require attention.
• Business Process Assessment—This assessment identifies the various business processes in your organization and provides recommended business process changes to align with the new learning architecture.