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Why Do I Need Vendors?
As more and more organizations migrate to e-learning as part of their overall enterprise learning strategy, they realize the importance of time-to-implementation in successful strategies. Transforming content, technology infrastructure, and the overall culture of your organization is not an easy task. However, effective use of vendor capabilities to assist in escalating your time-toimplementation, and therefore to demonstrate a rapid return on your e-learning investment (ROI), will be key to making e-learning a success in your organization. Many ask, Can't I build my own custom content and technology infrastructure to support my e-learning strategy? You could, but probably at a much higher cost and a much longer time frame than resulting from leveraging successful vendor partnerships in your implementation efforts. The core expertise of Global 5000 organizations is their core, their own industry, and the unique markets and customers they serve. Thus, those organizations interested in establishing e-learning initiatives have seen the importance of engaging vendors whose core competence is e-learning.By picking the right vendors and solutions, you will be able to: Jumpstart the availability of new and expanded content for your end users in a multitude of technology and business skills areas. By quickly mobilizing an engaging, well-organized e-learning curriculum, the organization makes significant strides in selling end users on the value of an e-learning strategy and gains management commitment to the development of intellectual capital in their valuable human resources.
e-Learning Strategy at Invensys Foxboro*
Stay with the organization's core competencies. If you do not have the expertise to develop or deliver e-learning, then partner with those who do.*See Chapter: 17, Invensys Foxboro
Rapidly implement a technology platform which will facilitate effective access and use of custom and off-the-shelf e-learning content. Experienced e-learning vendors have spent years perfecting access mechanisms and interfaces that will engage and interest end users in their initial foray into the e-learning arena. Vendor solutions enable organizations to benefit from those capabilities, while in parallel being able to customize the interface to reflect the organization's identity and priorities. In addition, only through rapid implementation of rigorous technology architecture can an organization begin to quantify the value-add associated with its e-learning initiatives, and therefore prove the business case to management and leadership. Embark on parallel paths of content, technology, and infrastructure initiatives which, in tandem, can accelerate and optimize your time-to-market for your overall e-learning strategy. Optimizing vendor relationships is only one component of a successful e-learning strategy. The decision is not as easy as build-versus-buy; it is rarely an either/or decision. The most compelling reason to adopt a vendor partnership strategy is that it provides immediate credibility and availability to end users, while at the same time giving the learning organization time to assess and implement their custom content and technology initiatives.
Use of Vendors at Black & Decker Corporation*
Use external professionals to build the first program so you have an expert show you the way and give you an opportunity to determine what resources you need for future projects. This quickly builds great success and allows time to develop internal capabilities that are cost effective. * See Chapter 13: Black & Decker
