Learning Management System Consulting Services
An LMS solution can be either an invaluable boost to the learning experience and business efficiency, or a financial faux pas – depending on how well it matches what’s being taught, where, how, as well as to and by whom.
That’s where questions start. Of all the different platforms out there, how to choose the right LMS? If there’s a need for an entirely new system, a custom one, how to plan it for minimum risks and safe ROI? Or maybe your current LMS will do, with some adaptation? This is where an LMS consultant can help not just with LMS selection, but with the general strategy, saving thousands by helping make the right decisions.
Setting Up an LMS Platform the Right Way
Evaluating LMS choices
With the sheer amount of various LMS solutions available on the market, choosing the perfect one can be quite a lottery. A poor match means wasted resources and low adoption, and the whole thing hinges on about a dozen factors related to workflows, target user base, and more. Proper LMS consulting, with needs assessment, requirements gathering, and research, can help decide between out-of-the-box and custom solutions for better efficiency.
Helping elicit ROI from the learning management system
Since learning management systems are often viewed as a sort of “peripheral” software, it is understandable that there’s some anxiety over how fast ROI will be recovered. Part of LMS consultants’ work is ensuring the platform will align with the learning strategies that are, in turn, mirroring business objectives. With proper design and implementation, ROI can be secured within a year in many cases.
Ensuring user adoption and learner engagement
While it’s tempting to think the more advanced an LMS is technologically, the better, in reality, it’s user adoption that serves as the decisive factor. That, in turn, hinges on the fit between the platform and the actual needs, on UX, and on workflows. That’s where consulting is needed to achieve alignment, and implement what’s actually needed, be it gamification, social learning, reporting, analytics, and more.
Defining scalability and customization potential
One of the major risks with LMS is when it threatens to become obsolete or too costly to maintain. This is why it’s important to look at the company’s trajectory when establishing the cornerstones of the system to choose the perfect solution. In this way, the platform can expand to support more users, incorporate advanced features, or add industry-specific compliance modules when necessary.
Where Learning Management System Consulting Is Useful
LMS strategy
Having a strategy in place when it comes to LMS implementation is a way to ensure the effort and investment is not wasted in the long run. This is where, based on your organization’s current learning processes and business goals, LMS consultants develop a roadmap for a high-impact solution, whether an off-the-shelf or a custom one. An organized and realistic strategy will also make sure the tech is aligned with learners’ needs without having to overinvest.
Implementation options
There are several possible approaches to implementing a learning management system (on-premise, SaaS, hybrid, etc.) – and the choice ultimately depends on about 20 different factors, like organization size, data security policies, and integration needs. Choosing between the different options wisely allows to estimate costs and timelines accurately, while keeping more possibilities open for the future.
UX and onboarding expertise
In practice, one of the biggest obstacles on the way to LMS adoption (and ROI) is when the effort needed to get used to the platform is comparable to the effort spent on the learning content itself. This is why proper UX is needed, and consulting helps ensure it’s designed with the industry specifics in mind.
Risk mitigation
LMS projects often involve significant investment and sensitive data, so consulting in this area focuses on identifying and minimizing potential risks – technical, financial, or operational. Experienced LMS consultants help assess compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR), cybersecurity measures, and data migration challenges. They also ensure that the implementation plan includes contingencies for downtime, user resistance, or integration bottlenecks. In this way, you can safeguard ROI and ensure smoother LMS deployment.
Setting up KPIs
To ensure a tight fit between what the LMS delivers and what the business gains from it, the KPIs need to be not just clear and measurable, but also to-the-point strategically. Our experts can assist in defining the relevant metrics among dozens of possibilities (course completion rates, retention, performance improvement and more), map them to LMS features, and recommend setting up reporting tools and dashboards accordingly.
Our LMS Consulting Services
- Needs assessment and target audience research
- Requirements analysis
- Gap analysis
- Custom LMS development scoping
- Custom LMS roadmapping
- Pilot/PoC LMS design
- Integration strategy definition
- LMS migration
- User role and workflow design
- Admin and instructor training
- Accessibility consulting
- KPI definition
- Learner engagement strategy
- Long-term support
Our Approach
Attention to organization specifics
What’s perfect for one organization is not necessarily good for another: industry specifics and even unique peculiar features of corporate culture matter a lot. We never design LMS solutions as an “art for art’s sake” thing – rather, we derive everything from understanding what your audience will be learning, where, how, and what results are expected.
Zero assumptions about users
While generalizations about demographic groups might be useful sometimes, they seldom are when it comes to learning. Since user personas influence the entire project management at later stages, we take care to make them close to the actual intended users and flexible at the same time.
Leaving wiggle room for the future
Where possible, we want to keep your perfect LMS from imposing unnecessary constraints upon itself. Organizations these days can change dramatically within 1-2 years, so it makes sense to aim for solutions that can adapt – be it in terms of general architecture, scalability, or potential for upgrades.
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