learning management systems improve quality

A fully integrated Quality Management Systems (QMS) includes a Learning Management Systems (LMS). An LMS platform creates, delivers, updates, tracks, and archives learning across an organization or enterprise. 

The Tie That Binds

QMS and LMS are inextricably bound together in the world of Quality Management. Afterall, it would make no sense to make the investment in formalizing your organization's operational procedures only to then fail to educate employees on their responsibility to know and uphold the tenets of your Quality Management System as conveyed by the training delivered by your Learning Managment System. 

Organizations with a desire to demonstrate a commitment to Quality Management invest in an LMS to:

• foster and demonstrate a culture of continuous improvement, 
• automate initial and annual staff training requirements, and
• ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory and/or contractual training requirements.

An LMS implementation is the process of adding, optimizing, or migrating an LMS system into your business’ infrastructure and technical stack. An 'LMS Implementation' includes the following:

• Consultative support for tool comparison and selection 
• Configuration of the software and user accounts
• Creation or Migration of SCORM compliant learner data from another platform 
• Development of training materials to support the LMS deployment
• Delivery of implementation and activation training and user guides to encourage adoption of the LMS

Successful LMS implementation is the step-by-step action plan and project management skills used to bring your custom LMS tool to life; making it ready for end users to engage asynchronously with courses, training materials, and educational content.

The Problem | Shrinking Budgets & Increasing Responsibilities

LMS implementations led by an organization's internal staff can be quite a costly and time-consuming.  Technical implementations and activations often require the time and attention of your most valuable team members and executives.  While highly skilled and competent, internal resources are often at or near capacity before the project begins. Many of our partners have made valiant attempts to moonlight as a project manager. This approach is soon found to be unsustainable causing many organizations to abandon the LMS implementation before realizing the benefits of the upfront investment. They soon send out S.O.S. signals for help as they flirt with succumbing to the increasing weight of the responsibility of maintaining the LMS, managing content, and handling support for LMS users. 

APM Solutions

Partnering with APM Solutions equips your team with the skills, resources, and tools required to see the LMS implementation through to maximum return on investment. When internal Learning & Development (L&D) teams are overwhelmed with projects, APM's trusted and highly skilled management consultants are deployed to increase your team's capabilities, implement your eLearning solution, and enable your subject matter expert(s) to continue to focus on, direct, and manage their primary responsibilities.  

Quality Management Systems help to improve services delivery by enabling customers to identify, manage, and mitigate non-conformance.  An LMS is a key component of a fully integrated LMS. APM will help you to right size your LMS. Our consultants can help your organization to develop a formalized training program for all workforce members to store evidentiary documentation of completion, date(s) of training, course content, course type, and duration etc.