BNH Training Management System ADVISOR Enterprise simplifies and speeds training needs analysis; as well as drives training efficiency by aligning current and future training activities to operational requirements to identify gaps, duplications and training with minimal value.
Further enhancements are attained by forecasting and comparing the costs of viable delivery options; uncovering cost drivers; improving resource allocation; and identifying/mitigating bottlenecks.
ADVISOR simplifies data collection from Subject Matter Experts through custom built Excel worksheets. Collaboration is facilitated by storing all data in a centralized database that can be accessed by the team anytime and from anywhere with only a browser. Changes made by each team member are automatically tracked.
ADVISOR Key Benefits
Speed Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
- Configure ADVISOR in line with needs – i.e., conduct mission, system, competency, and/or job task analysis.
- Automate Difficulty, Importance and Frequency (DIF) analysis to identify and prioritize tasks that require training.
- Define Knowledge, Skills, & Attitudes (KSAs) needed to perform each task.
- Identify training requirements by comparing desired to possessed KSAs.
- Generate compliance reports in a single click. These include Master Task List, Master Training Task List, Job Task List, Training Requirements, Assessment Specification, and much more.
Simplify Media Analysis (TMA)
- Quickly identify and rate viable delivery options by mapping instructional design requirements of each objective to the capability of each media.
- Store common measures such as hourly rates of developers, instructors, and support staff; equipment, simulators, and facilities cost in templates to quickly forecast and compare personnel/resource and costs of viable delivery options over program life cycle.
- Conduct what-if scenarios in seconds to assess the impact of using alternate blends of delivery options, an increase or decrease in number of trainees, changes in instructor to trainees ratio, attrition rate and so forth on costs, personnel and resource requirements.
- Generate compliance reports in a single click. These include Objectives and Media Analysis, Cost Analysis, Training Plans, and much more.
Comply with Multiple Standards
- Comply with various standards including CFITES, JSP-822, MIL-HDBK-29612-2A, AETC Handbook 36-2203, TRADOC Pamphlet 350-70-6, Australian Defence Model, S6000T, FAA, EASA, IATA and ICAO.
- Generate an audit trail that tracks where each requirement has been addressed.
- Quickly assess how changes to regulations, policies, systems, jobs, and tasks impact courses, activities, lessons, and teaching points.
- Identify training requirements that are not being addressed and potential impact on performance.
- Map training activities to operational requirements and regulations to uncover training that is no longer relevant.
- Track changes made by each user including what changes were made and when.
- Archive completed analysis and assign updates a new version number.
- Compare two versions of the analyses to identify all changes.
Improve Training Efficiency
- Identify viable delivery options for each lesson/activity within each course based on instructional requirements, content, audience and constraints.
- Forecast and compare the costs of viable delivery media to identify the most cost-effective options.
- Uncover and minimize training duplication – i.e., similar knowledge, and skills covered within multiple courses.
- Align training courses/activities with operational needs to identify gaps and training that is no longer relevant.
- Conduct what-if scenarios to assess the overall impact of various blends of delivery options based on planned courses/activities and throughput.
- Assess the potential impact of recommended solutions on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), namely training effectiveness, training costs, and training time.
Forecast Training Costs and Personnel/Resource Requirements
This includes the number and type of developers, instructors, administrators, managers and support staff, equipment, simulators, extended reality, facilities, etc., needed for each location and time-period. ADVISOR forecasts costs, personnel and resources based on throughput, courses/activities length, number of trainees per lesson, personnel/resources needed for each activity, and so forth.
Generate Project Plans and Optimize Schedules
ADVISOR generates viable project plans and schedules based on constraints; availability of personnel/resources, etc. Plans and schedules can be rapidly updated as equipment availability, number of trainees, and so forth change. Moreover, ADVISOR identifies potential bottlenecks that may result from personnel/resource shortages and venues for minimizing delays with alternate delivery options.
Identify the Impact of Change and Maintain Training Effectiveness
As requirements evolve, the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to support new equipment, systems, regulations, policies, etc., will also change. In other words, existing training courses/activities may no longer address all needs. ADVISOR quickly uncovers and flags the potential impact of changes to missions, jobs, equipment, systems, policies, and regulations on training courses/activities. By swiftly realigning training with requirements, training effectiveness and efficiency can be preserved; and high performance maintained.
Facilitate Collaboration
- Store all data in a centralized database accessible anytime and from anywhere by all team members with only a Browser.
- Track changes made by each user including what changes were made and when.
- Maintain consistency. Identify data to be collected, analysis to be conducted, media to be considered, and reports to be generated.
- Generate audit trail that tracks where each requirement has been addressed.
- Archive completed analysis and assign updates a new version number.
- Compare two versions of the analyses to identify all changes.
Configure Inline with Needs
- Data to be collected.
- Analysis to be conducted.
- Media to be considered.
- Reports to be generated.
- Display Theme.
- User Interface Theme.
- Taxonomy.
Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Training Decisions
ADVISOR incorporates several AI and Machine Learning technologies to improve training decisions and speed training analysis. These include:
- Identify and rate viable delivery media/options using a rule based expert system that examines content, outcomes, instructional strategies, learners, and organizational needs.
- Uncover the root cause of a performance deficiency and potential solutions using a rule based expert system that analyzes trainees and supervisors performance and feedback.
- Detect similar Tasks, Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes, and in-turn duplicate training content using fuzzy logic and Machine Learning.
Product Requirements
ADVISOR Enterprise supports all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. No plug-ins are required. ADVISOR Enterprise can also be installed on a local server. See more.
UK Ministry of Defence. Joint Service Publication (JSP) 822.
“ADVISOR is endorsed as the best-practice solution for a pan Defence DST, to assist the service commands in analysing the composition of their courses and to contribute to business decisions on the relative balance between centralised and distributed training.”
Canadian Forces Individual Training and Education System (CFITES).
“ADVISOR is a decision support tool. ADVISOR can be used to determine the most effective and efficient media for a given situation.”