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Develop a Learning Technology Strategy

Set clear expectations for learning technology by aligning goals with organizational priorities.

  • Organizations often have difficulty with increasing internal course participation, measuring training effectiveness, and increasing training accessibility.
  • Processes are often manual, resulting in wasted time and resources and a lack of traceability and visibility between departments.

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  • Get on-demand project support
  • Get advice, coaching, and insight at key project milestones
  • Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • A disjointed and departmentalized approach to learning technology will inevitably fail.
  • Ensure you have a holistic learning technology strategy through the necessary convergence of people, process, technology, and content.

Impact and Result

  • Connect a strong learning and development (L&D) strategy with a robust learning technology strategy to increase L&D efficiencies, develop in-house talent, and provide a competitive advantage to organizations.
  • Identify your solution alternatives across people, processes, technology, and content. Create a comprehensive roadmap, prioritizing initiatives and identifying dependencies.

Develop a Learning Technology Strategy Research & Tools

1. Clarify project purpose

Identify project team and stakeholders, align objectives, set metrics, and determine project scope.

2. Map current state

Conduct a learning audit, create learner profiles, map learning processes and systems, and identify key systems integrations.

3. Visualize future state and gather requirements

Prioritize core delivery methods to realize the ideal future state for processes, gather strategic requirements, and classify themes from feedback and analysis.

4. Establish governance and evaluate solutions

Determine guiding principles, process owners, and governance, and develop a strategic roadmap for vendor selection.

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About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Contributors

  • Katrina Baker, Senior Learning Evangelist, Adobe, and Principal Consultant, Resources of Fun Learning
  • Alec Ballantyne, Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)
  • Cathy Chae, Public Health Ontario (PHO)
  • Leah Craig, Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)
  • Lynn DiBonaventura, Teleflex Medical Canada
  • Nigel Fortlage, GHY International, CIO Association of Canada (Manitoba Chapter)
  • Lars Hyland, Chief Learning Officer, Totara Learning
  • Lyndsay Massey-Groel, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games
  • Jim Tom, Public Health Ontario (PHO)
  • Matt Whitehead, Online Learning Enterprises
  • Vivian Yap, Ontario College of Teachers
  • Anonymous, Government Industry
  • Anonymous, CPG Industry
  • Anonymous, Commercial Real Estate Consulting Industry
  • Anonymous, Information Technology Industry