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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

Upside Learning

If IT doesn’t have the skills (mostly PHP and MySQL and of course a good understanding of the LMS code) you either outsource that part or hire additional staff to do the same. Assuming you acquired the skills by either outsourcing or through internal resources who will manage that resource (or team)? Not your IT team!

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Building an Internal Simulation Capacity

The Learning Circuits

To produce the right portfolio of skills over the life of the project, managers have to juggle between: outsourcers, consultants, contractors, new hires, repositioned employees, and retrained employees. Build versus buy is a critical long term issue, although most organizations will want to leverage vendor experience initially.