How to build the Business case for an LMS?

Buying a Learning Management System (LMS) is not something that you would do very often and with such high value purchases it is necessary to consider many factors when you want to get the gatekeepers in your company on board. Or perhaps you have a legacy LMS which doesn’t provide enough features and functionalities for your requirements such as enterprise systems integration, a mobile app, advanced reporting tools, gamification or social and collaborative learning features?

Whatever your LMS challenges are, in order to take the next step, you need to build your business case and make it sound and solid to secure the internal buy in and get the go ahead from your investors. With these simple and valuable guidelines that we have outlined below you can put together a strong case whether you are upgrading a legacy system or thinking of investing in an LMS for the first time.