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Induction
Every new employee is inducted differently, depending on who happens to have time.
Everyone starts with the same onboarding, on day one, in their own language.
Building knowledge inside your company and keeping it available
Learning Platform & Corporate Learning
Corporate learning
Training that continues after the seminar day
Training no longer ends with the seminar day.
The knowledge sits in people’s heads
New employees learn by watching, experienced ones pass things on whenever there is time. As soon as another site is added or someone retires, that becomes a problem.
Produce once, use it for years
Learning content is recorded properly once and is then available: for every shift, every site, every language. Anyone who needs a refresher takes it themselves.
Clearest of all at onboarding
New employees get the same structured start from day one: safety instruction, product knowledge, processes, values.
We guide companies along this path: from strategy and platform selection through to the first finished learning units and day-to-day operation.
The difference
Three things a learning platform solves
Knowledge in a few heads
Most of the knowledge sits in a few heads and leaves the company with them.
Recorded properly once, it stays in the company and can be called up any time.
Records
Who had which instruction and when sits in a spreadsheet. If anywhere.
Progress and completions are in the report at the push of a button.
Technology
Which platforms are worth considering
The market is manageable; the differences are in the detail. Three routes are realistic for companies in South Tyrol.
License model
Established providers
The most common commercial learning platforms include Docebo, Absorb LMS, Cornerstone, TalentLMS and Adobe Learning Manager. They come with role models, learning paths, reporting and support – in return for an ongoing license fee.
Microsoft 365
Built around Microsoft 365
If your company already works with Microsoft 365, Docebo and Absorb LMS are the best fit. They integrate Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive as well as the Outlook calendar directly. People learn where they already work.
Open source
Open source
Moodle is a free open-source alternative used by universities and companies alike. No license costs, but more work of your own when it comes to setup, maintenance and operation.
We are not tied to any provider. Which solution we recommend follows from your requirements – not the other way round.
What it can look like
A look at a finished platform
An example, not a product: roughly how the start page looks once structure, learning paths and your corporate look are in place.
academy.ihr-unternehmen.it
Good morning, Anna
You have two open learning units this week.
Onboarding: the first 30 days4 of 7 units completed
- Welcome to the companyOnboarding · 12 mincompleted
- Safety at workMandatory training · 25 mincompleted
- Our products at a glanceProduct knowledge · 18 min60 %
- Customer calls on the phoneSales · 22 minopen
128employees
34learning units
86 %completion rate
Before you start
Two questions to settle before choosing a platform
Technology is rarely the problem. These two points are harder and more important – and in the end they also decide which platform is the right one.
Who is going to learn?
Is the platform aimed exclusively at your own staff, or should customers, partners and suppliers have access as well?
Opened up to the outside, its reach goes far beyond the company: it strengthens cooperation with partners and ties customers in more closely. User roles, access rights and the effort involved then look rather different.
Who is going to do the work?
Will the learning content be created internally or externally? Who handles technical support, who manages users, who checks quality?
What skills and expertise you already have in-house counts just as much as how much time those people really have.
The plan
Four steps to your own platform
An approach that has proven itself – because each step prepares the decisions of the next one.
01
Clarify the target groups
Who learns on the platform, today and in two years? Employees, apprentices, managers – and perhaps customers and suppliers too. Competence areas and learning paths follow from that.
02
Clarify the technical requirements
Which systems are in use, what has to be integrated, which role and access model is needed, and how does the solution have to grow along with you?
03
Set up the organization
Define structures, processes and responsibilities: internal, external or mixed. Who produces, who reviews, who supports, who evaluates?
04
Pilot phase before scaling
A few pieces of content first, for a clearly defined group. What works there is expanded. What does not is corrected before it becomes expensive.
In practice
What we take on
You decide how much you do yourself. We step in where it makes sense and step back again as soon as your team can carry on alone.
Strategy, concept & platform selection
We work out the strategic groundwork and set the decision up so that it can be made on a sound basis.
- Kick-off workshop and needs assessment with everyone involved
- Learning & development strategy: target groups, competence areas, learning paths
- Structured decision paper with a platform comparison
- Recommendation for the role and access model
- Coordination meetings remotely or at your premises
Technical setup, integration & branding
We set up the chosen platform, connect it to the existing IT landscape and give it your corporate look. Your IT department stays involved – a lot can be handled internally.
- Technical setup: structure, learning paths, knowledge checks, pilot environment
- Microsoft 365 integration: Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, Outlook calendar
- Configuration of the role and access model
- Briefing for your designer or agency: CI specifications, design guidelines, templates
- Acceptance, quality control and technical documentation
Handbook, quality standards & onboarding
So that administration and content creation can stay in-house long term without the quality drifting apart.
- Handbook for running the platform: user management, roles, reporting
- Content creation guide: didactic standards, length, structure, video quality
- Quality checklists for in-house production
- Onboarding workshop for administrators and content owners
- Follow-up sessions a few weeks after the start
Learning content with your specialists
Your most experienced people know the most. What they rarely have is the time and the practice to turn that knowledge into a learning unit. That is exactly what we do together with them.
- Content design and didactic preparation
- Shoot preparation: script, schedule, technical setup
- Video production on site or remotely
- Post-production: editing, sound, graphics, subtitles, intro and outro
- Learning check and knowledge test
- Integration and configuration on the platform
Learning content with external experts
For topics nobody in-house can cover, we bring in specialists from outside: industry experts or lecturers from our network.
- Selection and briefing of the right expert
- Content design, didactic preparation and scripting
- Shoot preparation and coordination with the expert
- Video production on site or remotely
- Post-production, learning check and knowledge test
- Integration and configuration on the platform
Ongoing support
A platform nobody looks after is out of date within two years. If you wish, we stay on board.
- Quality control of existing content, spotting what has aged
- Smaller adjustments to existing learning units
- Regular reporting: usage, learning progress, completion rates
- Strategic review once or twice a year
- Prioritizing new learning content together with you
- Advice on extending to new target groups
The idea behind it
Your own academy
What emerges in the end is more than a piece of software. It is the central learning and development platform of your company – a place where employees deepen their knowledge, build new skills and move forward together.
It ties practical content to your company’s culture and values and makes development part of everyday work – instead of an appointment that has to be squeezed in somewhere.
If you are thinking about a learning platform of your own, we are happy to talk it through with no obligation: what makes sense in your case, and what does not.
Let us talk about your corporate learning platform
We look at how you train today and show you the shortest route to a platform of your own.
Our institutes
Two institutions of South Tyrol Business School
Competence Center for AI and Blockchain
Teaching, research and implementation around artificial intelligence and blockchain for South Tyrolean companies.
www.kompetenzzentrum.bz
IFMS Market Research
Market research and data analysis for companies, associations and public bodies in South Tyrol.
www.marktforschung.bz