Tier 1 Performance Solutions offers Next Generation (State of the Art) Tool for Web Based Custom Learning

   August 18, 2003  Covington, Kentucky — Covington Kentucky based Tier 1 Performance Solutions has announced the release of Tier 1 Accelerated Learning and Performance System ALPS, a business tool for managing and delivering web-based learning content. A learning services and solutions company with a client base of Fortune 500 companies, Tier 1 created ALPS to allow clients to easily customize web-based training and deliver the same content through a variety of training options, including courseware, print materials and on-line quick-reference.

     Most of the content management tools currently on the market are cost-prohibitive and difficult to use.   In response to this, Tier 1 ALPS was developed to be both a user-friendly and cost effective way to develop courseware. Additionally, the multiple delivery modes that ALPS provides encourages high usage and supports real performance improvement for novices and experts alike.

     “We saw a niche that needed to be filled,” said Greg Harmeyer, Managing Partner of Tier 1. “We had many clients with the same issues: large volumes of learning content and support resources but no cost-effective way to assemble, deliver or maintain the content in a manner that positively impacts performance.”

     A completely web-based system, Tier 1 ALPS allows companies to author instructional materials or capture existing content, categorize it and flow it into meaningful performance support tools for their employees.  This product was specifically designed to help a customer in situations where the learning is very task-oriented (such as software training) or heavy in dynamic content (such as product knowledge or sales training). Companies can allow their users to customize ALPS to best fit their learning style, which greatly increases retention and use of materials, Harmeyer said.

     “Many companies are developing very one-dimensional web-based training courses,” says Tier 1 Chief Learning Officer Dr. Kevin Moore. “Learners take the course but once they complete it they can’t easily access the material when they need it.  The cost of this approach is significant and there are very few returns in improved performance.”

     Tier 1 ALPS was designed to allow an organization to easily author courseware using web-based templates that integrates specific support resources into the courses being developed by. This promotes ease of use and increases the training utility.  It then delivers the same content via the web as a structured learning course, an on-line quick reference, or a paper-based job aid or manual.

     Tier 1 Performance Solutions is a human performance company specializing in Learning Solutions, Change Enablement and Knowledge Management.

For more information, visit the web site at www.tier1performance.com.