They then deal with the attitude. The opposite is obviously also possible. The traditional reason for not developing this type of training program is cost. I believe that if you carefully examine your current costs of training and the savings and benefits that develop how this sort of program you will find, like our client, that the program is affordable. Because interactive training is so quantifiable a cost benefit analysis is relatively free of wild guesses and estimates, and as a result is much less risky.
Implementation is perhaps the hardest part.
No matter how specific you are with your hardware requirements the local dealer will try and sell you a slow CD because it is cheaper, a clone VGA monitor instead of an Apple one, and the blind maker will immediately load hundreds of games onto the system. These things have in fact been the major challenges of the implementation. The blind makers have found the system is well used and they have had no trouble getting people to use the system. Development of the program was in Authorware Professional. We identified that, given the size, complexity and need to track people in the system, Authorware would provide the best solution.