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FindLearning.com Gives Companies a New Way to Control Training Costs
Livingston,, quality control, NJ, May 21, 2004 -- FindLearning.com today has launched a new service, quality control, to making it easier for companies to track the spending going on across their organizations, and subsequently,, quality control, control their training costs.
According to Training Magazine's Industry Report, 40% of all training purchases take place outside of central HR and training departments. They are sourced by business managers, IT managers and individual employees. This training spend is incredibly hard for HR and training directors to control, manage or even track.
In order to help HR and training directors get a handle on the distributed sourcing going on in their organizations, FindLearning is offering companies the ability to get a private version of FindLearning's procurement service. This custom service can be integrated seamlessly into a company's intranet or corporate university.
Leveraging its Lotus Domino infrastructure and the configurable design of its service, FindLearning can create a custom version of its service within a few hours. The new custom service is hosted by FindLearning to let companies avoid any major technology integration projects. All that is need is a link to the new service from the company's intranet or corporate university.
The custom FindLearning service gives companies a standard process that can be communicated to all employees for their use in sourcing learning solutions. Central HR or training, quality control, departments then have a way to track, control and begin reducing the costs of the distributed learning spend taking place across their organization.
Among the features that can be configured as part of the customized FindLearning service are:
Branded interface with the company's logo and color scheme to reflect the "look & feel" of their website. The service can be a seamless part of their intranet or corporate university.
Customized learning request forms to reflect the specific needs of their company, including department expense codes.
Approval processes to support the manager or corporate level sign off desired in sourcing and scheduling processes.
On-line Reports to meet specific needs for, quality control, centrally monitoring and tracking company-wide learning requests, transaction history and learning expenses.
On-line, quality control, Course Catalog to include courses, quality control, that have been strategically sourced, or courses that central HR wants gauge the level of interest in. Employees can sign up for scheduled courses or express interest in unscheduled courses. Authorized managers can request the scheduling additional course events.
Hosted by FindLearning so all you need is a link added to your intranet. There is no need any complicated technology projects.
HR and training directors can use the service to deploy a standard sourcing process across their organization. Once business managers, IT managers and staff across the company are aware of the new, quality control, process, requests submitted through the service are processed accordingly to rules applied to determine if they should be immediately sourced, put through an approval process, or held in queue until similar demand is identified elsewhere in the organization. Once an organization has a better handle on all its training spend, it can more easily determine how to more effectively source its learning needs.
About FindLearning
Information about FindLearning's custom service can be found at http://www.findlearning.com/learn/ls.nsf/menus/cs. FindLearning helps companies source learning solutions for classroom training or e-learning through its network of over 150 qualified training providers. Companies can save the time they typically spend searching for vendors, receiving sales e-mails and calls, attempting sales meeting and qualifying vendors. Companies can reduce their training costs as well by comparing competitive proposals from multiple training, quality control, providers. The learning marketplace contains a large base of highly fragmented vendors of varying size each, quality control, offering different types and quality of learning solutions. FindLearning helps companies navigate this complex landscape quickly and easily., quality control,
For learning solution vendors, FindLearning offers an additional marketing channel to find new training opportunities. FindLearning helps vendors learn about new training opportunites form both centralized HR and training professionals,, quality control, and business and IT managers distributed across organizations.
The FindLearning team has over 20 years of combined experience in the training industry, and has successfully delivered thousands of solution proposals to CEOs, CLOs, HR Executives, training professionals, and business and IT managers at all levels. Our professionals have connected companies with every learning solution imaginable;, quality, quality control, control, from onsite instructor-led, quality control, training, multi-user licenses of CD-ROMS, off-the-shelf e-learning libraries and e-learning course development. FindLearning, quality control, .com was developed and runs on Lotus Domino, and is hosting, quality control, by eApps (formerly Strategic Systems Consultings, Inc.) based out of Norcross, Georgia. For more information, you can contact FindLearning at info@findlearning.com or 888-644-2111.
