Learning Management System Software can be defined as an application used to both manage the educational requirements of people working in a specific environment and provide a means whereby training material can be made available to those people.
The applicability of a LMS learning management system is as wide and varied as the governments, utilities, banks, organizations and companies that we all work in. In moving from one organization to another, training requirements can be very different in some respects and similar in others. For this reason, having a well-designed LMS application is quite often crucial in meeting the required training effort.
The goal of an LMS is to help a company improve overall efficiency through employee training and knowledge retention and to work to eliminate downtime due to illness or injury, while providing an enjoyable work experience conducive to the general health of the people who comprise the organization. This can be as simple as managing better orientation for new employees, but typically extends beyond by providing industry specific training which might be quite new material to what the person has historically been exposed to during the course of their work life.
There are also cross-training considerations, and so learning management system software can lend itself to giving training administrators a good overall view of how complete the company’s training is at any point in time. How flexible a workforce is to supporting itself across different aspects of the business, whether in crisis or in response to a marked change in business climate, can be invaluable to securing the on-going success of any organization.