Align Training with Organizational Goals

• Training Needs Analysis (TNA)

• Training Situation Analysis (TSA)

• Mission/Goal Analysis

• Job Task Analysis and 

• Knowledge/Skill Gap Analysis

• Training Requirements (TR)

• Training Requirements Analysis

• Training System Requirements Analysis (TSRA)

Speeds the Analysis: 

• Maintain links between tasks, performance, knowledge/skill & training requirements as well as identify broken connections.

• Support DIF and Criterion analysis and generate training plans in line with US, Canadian & UK military standards.

• Quickly reassess training requirements as priorities change, as well as impact of tool and policy changes on training.

• Facilitate reusability. Provide an invaluable searchable repository of tasks performed by each job, & knowledge/skills needed to perform each task.

• Quickly upload data from Excel and other sources using xml

Improves Training Decisions: 

• Maximize training impact and demonstrate value by focusing resources on the most important initiatives.

• Meet clients' needs by ensuring that individuals can perform tasks to desired standard under prescribed conditions.

• Establish a clear line of sight between employees' tasks and organization goals.

Select Right Blend of Delivery Options

• Media Analysis

• Cost Analysis

• Cost Effectiveness Analysis

• Cost Avoidance Analysis

• Training Options Analysis (TOA)

• Return on Investment Analysis (ROI)

Speeds the Analysis: 

• Utilize common measures such as hourly rates of developers, instructors and support staff; time needed to develop and support courses; average per diem and travel costs; etc., to quickly and accurately forecast money and resources needed for training.

• Quickly carry out what if scenarios and communicate results to clients.

• Conduct analysis and generate training plans in line with US, Canadian & UK military standards.

• Quickly upload data from Excel or other sources using xml.

Improves Training Decisions: 

• Minimize costly errors by assessing risk and suitability of 30+ training technologies to learners, learning and organization.

• Improve training efficiency by forecasting and comparing training time and costs of plausible delivery options.

• Increase throughput, reduce travel costs and time away from the job by exploring blended delivery, build versus buy and internal versus external personnel use.

• Provide invaluable searchable repository of cost and resources required by various training programs.

Manage Training Budgets and Resources

• Plan Training Budgets and Resources

• Optimize Training Budgets and Resources

• Track Budgets and Resources

Speeds the Analysis: 

• Quickly forecast money and resources needed to develop, deliver, administer, manage, maintain and support one or multiple training programs for any time period, compare to actual spending/effort and identify discrepancies.

• Reduce time needed to compile and analyze data from team members and communicate results to clients.

Improves Training Decisions: 

• Maximize training impact by prioritizing technology initiatives based on potential impact and generate plan of action.

• Uncover and duplicate efficient training programs and correct problem areas by comparing costs per individual per hour.

• Reveal duplication and training creep.

• Generate benchmark reports to gauge training investment over time, to peers and competition.

• Provide an invaluable searchable repository of cost and resources required by various training programs.

• Defend budget by articulating the impact of each training activity on performance and organizational goals.

Project and Resource Management

• Project Management

• Resource Management

How training should be implemented?

Speed the Analysis: 

• Quickly forecast time and money needed to develop, deliver, maintain and support training programs.

• Promptly locate personnel and resources with desired skills and attributes; validate availability and assign to various tasks.

• Automatically compile and analyze data from team members, update projects status and communicate results to clients.

Improves Project and Resource Management: 

• Minimize delays and cost overruns by generating accurate time and cost estimates, producing solid project plans and tracking progress in real-time.

• Anticipate problems and pinpoint corrective measures by continually assessing progress relative to project plan.

• Improve resource allocation by tracking the overall utilization rates of personnel and resources.

• Forecast future personnel and resource needs based on upcoming projects.

• Provide an invaluable searchable repository of training personnel and resources.

Improve Performance

• Needs Assessment

• Performance Gap Analysis

• Root Cause Analysis

• Feasibility Analysis

• Cost Benefit Analysis

• Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis

• Training Validation

How performance can be improved and is training meeting needs?

Speeds the Analysis: 

• Facilitate training validation by using desired performance criteria to assess whether performance objectives are being met.

• Reduce time needed by analysts to capture and analyze the data and communicate the results to clients.

• Facilitate reusability. Provide an invaluable searchable repository of tasks performed by each job, & knowledge/skills needed to perform each task.

• Quickly upload data from Excel or other sources using xml.

Improves Performance: 

• Improve performance by identifying and prioritizing solutions needed to meet goals and generate plan of action.

• Minimize waste by avoiding programs that do not resolve performance deficiency, meet business need or contribute to bottom line – i.e., costly decisions from wrong assumption.

• Meet clients' needs by ensuring that proposed solutions will attain the desired outcomes.

• Maximize impact and add value by focusing resources on the most important initiatives. 

Simplifies the Analysis: 

• Configure each project in line with your needs. Specify data to be collected and analysis to be performed.

• Provide step by step methodology for inexperienced users.

• Facilitate collaboration by subdividing work among team members, sharing and reuse of data, as well as notifying team members instantly of new assignments and changes.

• Facilitate data collection from the field.

• Is highly configurable and customizable.

Support and Document Decisions

• Present results with confidence. Based on extensive research, tested on thousands of courses and used by hundreds of organizations since 1995. The reasoning behind the recommendations as well as a breakdown of the  computations are clearly presented and can be easily validated.

Develop Effective Presentations

• Generate clear, simple to follow charts, tables and reports to effectively communicate the results to others.

Access Anytime from Anywhere

• Available at any time and from anywhere.  Data, analysis and results are stored in a central database on a web server - accessible to multiple users locally or at a distance via Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Netscape over the Internet or Intranet (no plug-ins required).

Customize to Better Meet Your Needs

• ADVISOR is highly configurable and customizable. Whether you need to modify terminology, limit data to be collected or analysis to be conducted, add new media or fields, generate new reports, exchange data with other systems, or modify the interface, BNH provides several options to meet your needs.

• Scalable, robust and flexible. ADVISOR's three-tier design (client, server and database) provides a completely Java based, open platform that is robust, flexible and scalable. Whether managing a few courses locally or thousands of courses worldwide, ADVISOR can meet your needs.