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The Latest – Learning System RFI Template

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Let’s face it – RFI/RFP documents sent over to learning system vendors are massive tomes that confuse, challenge and even baffle some vendors. Then you have RFP/RFIs that lack substance. The fact of the matter is nobody loves creating RFP/RFIs. They can be 25 pages. 50 pages, even 100 pages or more. Fear not, though.

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Buying a Learning System – Dread

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Stage Two Creating the RFP document These are the typical routes people go when creating the RFP (BTW, save time, use my template that said) Put in 90% that every vendor already has – but you are unaware. Write an RFP that is massive in size. Use Nobody loves or likes creating an RFP/RFI or whatever you do. It

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Reader’s Mailbag – You Ask, I Answer

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Then there are those who won’t tell you, but simply decline or ignore your RFP. The thinking behind this strategy is the presumption that a larger user base equates to a higher budget, but that just isn’t true. I once had a client with 6,500 end-users (active) and their budget was 30,000 dollars.

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Break it down! (No it’s not Hammer Time! Yet)

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Actually, I do blame: Vendors who still post RFP templates on their site – which by the way tend to be geared towards themselves. Organizations who recommend the value of RFPs and either have a link to an RFP template or how to do a RFP. RFP reality – And no, Jeff Probst is not your host.

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What you can expect in 2019

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Sure some folks are using VR and loving it with their training, and many of these entities have the budgets to pull it off. But the problem is more than just the headset, rather it getting buy-in from the C-level folks that this is a must for your budget, especially when you just received the green light to drop 50K on a new LMS.

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Latest E-Learning News and Notes

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There are two reasons behind this: Perceived revenue – Vendors often fall into the trap of believing that a customer who has 1,000 learners (internal) will have a higher budget than say 300 OR if they are targeting mid size, see a customer with 10,000 users have a higher budget than say someone with 1,500 users. Latest Files.

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How to Pick the WRONG Learning System

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I understand you do not want to hurt other people’s feelings or you have been notified that you have to ask all these departments for their suggestions, but no one ever says you have to take all that stuff and stick it into your RFP or documents or make it an important component of the decision making process. Yes, listen. Demo Rules.