Corporate Personal Learning Platform

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

•  Demonstrates conceptually the ability to automate access and updates to digital learning assets
• Modular and scaleable
• Demonstrates innovation by leveraging the success of the Internet folksonomy concept to apply to an existing business problem of metadata management
• Exposes metadata to the right people at the right time
• Low cost solution to creating and maintaining personalized training content

• Needs to consider potential challenges arising from the need to change corporate culture e.g. new business process for metadata management
• Complex solution with multiple components may be a barrier to entry for some clients
• Source applications vary widely across corporations which may translate to a long time to market for a packaged software solution
• Only one generic approach is defined but may need modifications to fit diverse organization structures and budgets

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

• New services can be provided to leverage existing corporate technology investments
• Existing products can be integrated for product based assessments to provide efficient performance reviews
• Modular approach to design will result in lower start-up costs
• Focus on management and supervisory level programs first. According to Bersin & Assoc. (2008), 21% of training dollars go to leadership training
• Potential to partner with personalized training vendors who specialize in instructional design or e-learning strategy

• Companies may prefer status quo and slower moving solutions
• Companies may go completely to Wikis for content development and management or some other approach for managing business metadata
• Solution crosses disciplines so it may be challenging to find a single sponsor for the venture
• Solution involves middleware which may be difficult to sell unless it is packaged with a specific training project to provide a prototype to visualize business value