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Choosing the Right LMS for Your Startup

We live in a dynamic world, where changes and upgrades are extremely common in most industries. Therefore, both industry giants and beginners (startups) must find ways to cope with this constant stream of new information that has to be processed and assimilated.

Of course, as a startup, things will be more hectic since you don’t yet have the same structure and organization as a well-established company. However, this doesn’t mean you should forgo employee training and hope for the best. It just means you will have to find the Learning Management System (LMS) that fits your needs.

Luckily, the current market of enterprise LMS platforms is diverse enough for anyone to find the right tools for their business’s future development. Still, as a startup, it can be easy to lose yourself in the multitude of features while trying to choose a system that fits your budget. Therefore, we listed the top three key elements that make an LMS great for a startup.

#1: Choose a Scalable LMS Solution

As your startup will start earning new customers, you will also want to add new members to your team. You may also want to add new activities, develop new products, or work on various new and interesting projects.

Therefore, when choosing an LMS solution, make sure you keep these aspects in mind and check if they can be later integrated with the platform of your choice. The LMS platform should also allow you various customizations and options with regards to the type of learning system you want to promote within the organization (read more here about flexible solutions and the features that matter).

#2: Define Your Goals

  • What do you hope to achieve by using an LMS platform?
  • Do you have a plan for the future or are you looking to buy an easy-to-use platform to get things started?
  • What type of people will be using the platform and for what purpose?

All these (and more) are questions that will help you understand your own goals and sketch a plan for the best results. For instance, if you set a goal to “increase sales by 25% within 6 months”, you should be focusing your training efforts on sales and marketing courses and make sure the employees connected with this activity are actively learning.

#3: Features You Need

Once you have a list of well-established and realistic goals, it’s time to make a list of the main features that must exist in the LMS platform that will help your startup grow.

For instance, focusing on the goal mentioned above, it would be great to have a monitoring feature that highlights each learner’s progress with their studies. Also, speaking of scalability, an LMS should (at least) allow adding new users of different skills and interests.

Wrap Up

According to specialists, skill development and training can be the right tools to overcome the hardships brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, platforms that focus on helping businesses and employees work on their current skills and acquire new ones will be of great use.

 

Kossi Adzo is the editor and author of Startup.info. He is software engineer. Innovation, Businesses and companies are his passion. He filled several patents in IT & Communication technologies. He manages the technical operations at Startup.info.

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