Recent research found that many organisations seem to have a love-hate relationship with their learning management system (LMS).
In my experience there’s no subject that generates such a polarised and heated discussion among learning and development (L&D) professionals as their expectations of the LMS.
It’s always refreshing when facts back up one’s intuition, and recent research did just that. It found that among larger organisations, most currently have an LMS, with over 90 per cent having been installed for more than two years. But when asked if they would recommend their current supplier only 23 per cent were in the ‘very likely’ category and the negatives totalled exactly 50 per cent. Now there are two aspects to the issue of recommending a supplier; either, you’re completely comfortable with them, or you’re reluctant to admit that a previous decision was questionable.
So let’s try and sum up these findings. Most medium to large organisations have an LMS installed. They are fundamentally using it to benefit their learners and they are capturing the benefits it brings to the L&D function as well. They have a remarkably low level of satisfaction with their current supplier, are under-using it for corporate benefit and most can’t show a realistic return on their investment in the functionality.
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