Planning decisions
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- What management decisions need to be taken? Decisions about....
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- What additional information may they need to make decisions?
- What is the current position?
- Identifying appropriate structures
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- How is HR and training organised and delivered in your organisation and who is responsible?
- Identifying HR issues
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- Needs Analysis tools
- Forecasting tools
- What are the specific HR /training issues you are trying to address?
- How were these issues identified? By whom? Through what processes? Top down or bottom up?
- Who does the HR /training problem or need affect and in what way?
- Identifying contextual issues
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- Requirements of examining and validating bodies, chambers of commerce etc.
- Negotiation with relevant trade unions
- Are you addressing initial or continuing training issues?
- Does the learning outcome need to be certificated /accredited /validated
- Will learners be rewarded
- Financially?
- Through job enhancement?
- Through promotion?
- Recognising and building on previous work
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- Scoping study
- Position Audit
- Organisational IT policies
- Who is doing what else to try and solve this problem in the organisation?
- What other measures have been tried in the past and to what effect?
- What other approaches (both ICT based and non-ICT) to similar issues are being tried or have been tried elsewhere and to what effect?
- What previous experience does your organisation have of e-learning?
- What policies and strategies for e-learning are already in place in your organisation?
- What existing infrastructure and resources exist which can be used to support e-learning? (e.g. networks, resource bases, ICT technical support , trainers etc)
- Handling relationships
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- Training department staff skills audit
- List of external providers
- Who takes the decision to introduce a particular e-learning program, who else must be consulted and who has to approve it?
- What is the level of management support for this program?
- Is the program conducted in partnership with any other agency or organisation?
- Finding out what technology and e-learning content exists
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- What range of ICT options were explored in terms of
- Availability of technology
- Shelf life of the technology
- Competence in the technology
- Availability of e-materials and content
- Need for back up and support
- What range of ICT options were explored in terms of
- Finding out what it all costs
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- Cost benefit analysis tools
- Implications of choosing vendors /technologies e.g. technology lock-ins
- What are the costs associated with
- Providers?
- Technology?
- Materials?
- Establishing what is and what is not possible at the moment
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- What ICT based options were edited out and why
- What ICT based options selected and why?
- Reviewing the planning process and focussing the programme
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- What organisational constraints are or were imposed?
- What compromises were made?
- Why and how were these judgements made?
- Focussing the programme
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- What HR problems will remain? (i.e. what HR problems are you not attempting to solve with e-learning)
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- Is there anything you would change about it? Is there anything you think should be left out or anything which should be added? Do you have any other comments about this section?
