Perform a Google search for
the term “LMS is dead” and a cursory glance at the results will give you an
idea of what I am talking about. In this post, I discuss why organizations
continue to hold on to an obviously underwhelming technology and how that can
be easily changed.
While talking to many senior
learning and development folks, most of them openly acknowledge that they see their LMS
as an inefficient and complex, but a necessary behemoth, that they are stuck with.
So, they limit themselves to using it for mandatory compliance trainings.
Why would organizations
continue to hold their learning and training needs hostage to their LMS? Why
are they not striving to get the benefits of online learning for 80% or even
50% of their training needs?
The current LMS landscape
has constrained the imagination of most L&D folks so much that they find
the idea of extending online training to a bulk of their needs as outrageously laughable.
The reasons that I heard against
changing an existing LMS were predominantly one or more of the following three:
1)
It is too big to replace – The incumbent LMS
vendors have successfully planted this notion of bigness and complexity of
LMS in the minds of L&D leaders. They have done this by doing what they do
best – providing bloated software that takes special expertise to manage and months
to roll-out.
2)
There are no alternatives – This has,
unfortunately, been true for a long time. It did not make sense to change one
LMS for another.
3)
It is for free – Yes, this is indeed the reason for
many – an LMS thrown in free with an HR management system. You can well imagine
how much the HRMS vendors value their own free LMSs.
None of the L&D leaders
that I talked to, mentioned “getting desired value from current LMS” as the
reason for not moving away from it.
The above reasons are
understandable, but are no longer valid. What if you could have a nimble,
consumer grade learning automation system that removes your dependency on LMSs
and even content authoring contractors?
And what if I were to tell you that you could try it out in a matter of
minutes? Our learning automation platform, Nittio Learn, does exactly this and
directly blows away two of the three reasons mentioned above.
The huge leap with Nittio
Learn is that you can take most of your classroom trainings (functional,
behaviour, induction…, you name it) online. You decide whether your LMS is
indeed free or is costing you a bomb? I leave it to you to compute the cost you
are incurring on all your classroom trainings that would be done at fraction of
the costs with Nittio Learn.
Check it out at
www.nittiolearn.com or send us an email at hello@nittio.com.
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