HFMA: Focusing On Content, Not Process

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COMPANIES BELLISLE

Company Background

COMPANIES BELLISLE provides business development consulting and creates training programs to help new employees become effective more quickly, and to help experienced employees expand their skill set. Debra deSousa, the Managing Partner of COMPANIES BELLISLE, provides business development and marketing consulting to start up and fortune 25 companies. Paul deSousa brings over 20 years of business success to the process of designing and managing organizational performance improvement interventions. Using the slogan, “Innovating Performance Improvement,” with an uncommon blend of creative ability plus business knowledge, he has built and managed pioneering training programs for: Ford Motor Company, E*Trade, AmeriTrade, Charles Schwab, SBC, and others.

Company Objective

Paul’s initial interest in QMIND was to find an online storyboarding and authoring tool to help facilitate a project for a new client. After attending a demonstration, Paul purchased a QMIND account and subsequently signed on as a re-seller in April 2006. Paul recognized the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform as more than just a tool to rapidly build e-learning and rich media content, but more importantly as a system that empowered him to seamlessly collaborate with a geographically disperse client and contract team. By using the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform, COMPANIES BELLISLE will be able to easily fulfill the high demand for their services by outsourcing more work to their network of consultants. Because QMIND will enable their consultants to work virtually, COMPANIES BELLISLE will save an additional 30% by eliminating contractor travel expenses and reducing costs with consultants who offer reduced rates for virtual contracts.

QMIND Project

Paul is currently working on his first project using the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform with his client, a significant financial education concern. To support business development, the client is converting existing print and web content into online multimedia. They engaged COMPANIES BELLISLE to develop content and recommend tools and strategies that would enable them to meet their objectives. COMPANIES BELLISLE recommended a strategic “learning object” approach that would enable them to re-purpose their existing content for multiple online delivery methods.

QMIND readily facilitates reusing learning content in both a course environment and an integrated performance support system. The simplicity and immediacy of reusing content in QMIND for these multiple applications is expected to save the client significant money and time to completion. It also adds a level of transparency to the content development process that was previously unachievable.

The client has realized that by using the QMIND Design Collaboration Platform, they will easily be able to expand their content offerings and enable their distributed subject matter experts to customize or create new content while they retain quality control over the content being delivered. With this in mind they have acquired their own licenses and, with the help of COMPANIES BELLISLE, are integrating the QMIND platform into their internal operations.