We’ve already made a significant investment, so we’re going to stick with it.
I hear these arguments often from companies who have spent boat loads of money on some overpriced, clunky Learning Management System. Really, they have spent lots of dollars and probably way too much time using the tool to load users and courses. I feel their pain. I can see why it seems to honor that pain to stick with the unfortunate choice.
But does it really make sense to throw more money and time into the system? How many frustrating hours need to be sucked out of the lives of trainers and how many wasted dollars?
How about pretending it never happened? How about making the tough choice to admit the waste, but to stop it there?
Just spend a lot less money on a smarter LMS that is easier to use. Just do that. Need to make a case to somebody important? Ask them to administer your current LMS for a while. See what they think then.
Even if you’ve got a 2-year contract with the monster LMS, just tuck it away in the warehouse. Nobody needs to be chided for the bad choice. Everyone was doing it. All companies involved in elearning of any sort have embarrassing failures. Tech changes have happened fast. It’s OK to change with it.
