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White Paper Tells How to Heighten Operational Efficiency in Sluggish Times
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Mountain View, Calif. — May 20
Expertus, which helps companies fuel business growth through maximizing the value of training investments, announced it has released a white paper titled, “Eliminate Waste and Reap the Rewards: Nine Ways to Trim Operational Expenses to Fund Strategic Learning.” The comprehensive white paper includes applicable tips for training executives looking to improve efficiency.
Recent research conducted by Expertus and Training Industry Inc. found that 92 percent of the 113 learning leaders surveyed were feeling some amount of pressure to cut costs. This statistic, which was closely matched among participants in a recent webinar, indicates that finding ways to increase efficiency is an important objective.
“Recessions can create an ideal opportunity for training organizations to regroup and reassess processes to make sure they are working in the most efficient manner possible,” said Ramesh Ramani, CEO and founder of Expertus. “Inefficiencies can consume incredible amounts of money and manpower and are often ignored until budgets begin to tighten in depressed economies like what we’re in today.”
Expertus challenges training executives to perform an internal audit to stay ahead. To take a brief online internal assessment, visit www.trainingefficiency.com/assess-your-efficiency. Developed by Bersin & Associates, the 16-question evaluation focuses on an organization’s operational strengths and weaknesses, serving as an online analyst to identify and resolve key issues and impediments.
The following are some tips from “Eliminate Waste and Reap the Rewards” on how to increase operational efficiencies within your organization:
Tip 1: Consolidate and Centralize Learning Technologies
By reducing the number of systems and simplifying infrastructure, companies will have fewer system support requirements, less maintenance, fewer patches, fixes and upgrades, and fewer resource requirements. As a result, companies will decrease costs and improve data success and reporting.
Tip 2: Convert ILT to Blended or E-Learning
The obvious gains in this approach are reductions in travel, facility, equipment and trainer costs. However, organizations shouldn’t just look to cut costs by reproducing and converting content from ILT to e-learning. They should also work to leverage the big benefits that e-learning provides: availability, reusability and effectiveness.
Tip 3: Optimize Learning Technology Support and Administration
Learning technology support and administration refers to the human activity surrounding a learning system, namely, the administrative work going on within the training group. Organizations don’t have to buy, implement and manage learning technology now that a growing number of LMS providers offer software as a hosted service. Tapping into external resources can be a safe and efficient alternative.
For more info: http://www.trainingefficiency.com
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