Design and create your corporate Digital Academy, starting from the foundations: what are the first essential steps to make to give your project a solid foundation and start it in the right direction, making the best choices from the very beginning?
There are 3 aspects to face and deepen to give your DA a foundation and a solid structure:
1) Organizational Analysis
It may seem obvious, but the first step is to decide where you want to go: clearly identify the goals as well as the organizational and technological boundaries of your Digital Academy project. You will have to clearly define the purpose of your academy and consider which internal resources to put into play, which services to purchase in outsourcing and what are the time boundaries and the regulatory perimeter in which you operate. An important part of the fixed costs and the general implementation roadmap depend on these decisions.
2) LMS implementation and startup
The "Learning Management System" is the technological heart of every Digital Academy, the platform that will allow you to organize and deliver your training projects. It is not enough to ask around "what is the best platform in the world" but you have to find the best platform for you. It is time to choose your LMS and implement it based on the decisions made through organizational analysis. In particular, you will need to evaluate:
- Functionalities, in particular those relating to the organization of users and content (multi-client, catalogs, automation, etc.),
- Supply model, choosing a solution that allows you the best compromise between cost, marginality and the possibility of evolving the system exactly in the direction you need. Will you choose a saas, on-premise, open source, open-cloud solution…. ?
3) Technological Integration
No platform is an island: your LMS will most likely have to "dialogue" with an ecosystem of other business applications, so it is important to carefully understand and design data flows and relationships between the different components.
For example: you may want to implement "Single Sign On" functions with the site or an intranet on which users are already logged in, or you may want to validate the authentication with your company Active Directory, or maybe you could import the personal data from an HR management software, or export the status of user training towards your security management system.
In short, there is a lot of very important technical stuff to decide here!
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