Digital Academy for corporate training: how to implement it and what are the benefits

In the era of digital transformation, providing continuous training has become a crucial element for business success. A Digital Academy provides a modern solution to address this need, offering an advanced educational ecosystem that leverages innovative technologies and methodologies to deliver interactive and structured training content.

Content is designed to be easily accessible and scalable, enabling companies to deploy skills in an effective and certified manner. This integrated approach facilitates the learning and development of new skills that are crucial to keeping a company competitive in today's digital landscape. It also enables companies to keep their employees constantly up-to-date and preserve their distinctive skills.

Starting a Digital Academy project requires careful planning and a series of preliminary analyses to ensure that the training offerings are effective and meet the needs of the participants.

This process can be broken down into four main phases:

First of all, it is essential to conduct an analysis of the project's strategic objectives and a Skill Gap Analysis to identify the training objectives and missing skills to be strengthened. This can be accomplished through, interviews, meetings and stakeholder analysis with the relevant management team.

Having identified the content to be delivered through digital academy, attention shifts to the mode of implementation. The training mode can vary from virtual to digital, frontal to synchronous or asynchronous, depending on the needs identified. It is crucial to select the most suitable medium and formats, such as video, webinar, and e-learning.

Technology is a tool in the service of learning, so the choice of platform should be guided by ease of use, accessibility, and ability to support learning objectives. The ideal platform should be flexible, scalable and integrable with other digital tools.

It is crucial that technology follows people and their goals, not the other way around. The Digital Academy needs to be designed with a user-centered approach, ensuring that the technology adopted enhances the learning experience rather than limits it, and defining a user journey that is intuitive and engaging.

Finally, it is important to think in a structured and effective way about the adoption of the new tool, both at the level of internal management of the digital academy (designing the new process and activities for those who will manage it) and at the level of internal communication and training of the learners, i.e., the final users. Outlining the most effective communication methods to present the project within the company and effectively training the learners for a correct and happy training experience and the tutors to better manage the digital training process are examples of this phase.

A well-implemented Digital Academy offers significant benefits for a variety of business roles.

Digital Academies simplify and enhance corporate training for HR departments by improving skills, onboarding, and development programs. They offer flexibility and customization, fostering a culture of growth and innovation. Also used to attract talent, they improve corporate reputation. Managers and business leaders also use e-learning to train teams and manage skills, facilitating talent development and goal setting. Digital academies help preserve a company's distinctive skills and manage handovers. Salespeople improve product skills and sales techniques through e-learning courses, with on-demand content accessible from mobile devices, and after-sales departments improve support and service, extending the service portfolio and generating new revenue streams.

In an ever-changing landscape, a Digital Academy is a key tool for ensuring the ongoing training and updating of employees; however, there can be challenges for companies when undertaking this project. For example, resistance to change, the need for significant investment in IT infrastructure, and especially the lack of digital literacy among companies.

Digital Knowledge Transfer Training Catalog

Applied offers digital solutions ready to support companies in creating and managing their Digital Academies through the Skillgate platform integrated with the e-learning courses offered by Applied in the DKT (Digital Knowledge Transfer) Catalog: training courses designed to develop essential digital skills, with up-skilling and re-skilling programs, led by industry experts.

Alternatively, Applied has developed Skillgate For Business, a solution to offer companies the option of creating a Corporate Digital Academy hosted on the Skillgate LMS platform. This solution allows for a tailored and customized corporate Academy, populated with company-specific and company-specific content, thus ensuring a learning experience consistent with the company's culture and goals without having to implement its own specific LMS.

Applied also handles the production of training content, from training architecture and design to technical implementation. We are able to develop and implement various technologies to support the training of internal and external practitioners:

• Avatar: Realization of digital training content with the application of AI
• Video: Creation of Video courses or training pills
• Immersive Technologies: virtual or augmented reality available for technical training, including on wearable devices
• Digital Training: digitization of texts, images, videos, 3 D models are integrated in order to create operational guides, product sheets, quality procedures.

In an ever-changing landscape, a Digital Academy is a key tool for ensuring continuous training and updating of employees, key elements for maintaining competitiveness in today's environment.

Applied offers digital solutions ready to support companies in the creation and management of their Digital Academies, providing project consulting, support on application selection and adoption, IT infrastructure and training content development.

To find out how Applied's solutions can transform training in your company, visit our dedicated page and start building the future of your organization with Skillgate.

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