INCULCATE DESIGN THINKING (DT)
Looking at where organizations struggle with learning and development, Harvard Business Review found that it centered around three key issues:
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Employees aren’t learning in the moment of need.
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They aren’t learning job-relevant skills.
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Because the skills they are learning aren’t being used, they’re being forgotten.
LinkedIn’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report backs up HBR’s findings, noting that most employees prefer to learn at work, at their own pace, and at the point of need.
Design thinking is a method of “ creative problem solving” developed at Stanford University. It’s all about deeply understanding your audience so that you can develop solutions that truly meet their needs. This process can help L&D professionals make the most out of corporate investment in learning by designing programs that are more impactful and relevant to workplace learners.

Proven FRAMEWORK driven approach to BRIDGE THE GAP in learning programs
Design thinking can be used by all departments in a business. Our growth innovation team at Byline comprises a senior learning designer, who focuses on applying this method for the end consumer of a project; a learning technologist, who uses this technique to deliver value to learners; and a learning strategist, who applies this method to deliver value for business owners and various learning stakeholders.
Virtual Captive eLearning Unit (VCU)
It is basically a hybrid outsourcing model where Byline will set up a captive learning center on behalf of your company, providing the all the necessary technical infrastructure, talent, office resources etc and still give you full control over how everything works and is managed.
The center feels like a client’s own office with but is fully maintained by the Byline. Such a model is continuously rising in popularity in India and may outsource experts believe can become a standard outsourcing model for the L&D industry.

Proven FRAMEWORK driven approach to BRIDGE THE GAP in learning programs
Under this model, clients are charged a fixed price per resource/ head. The base price includes the resource’s salary, overhead costs like infrastructure, hardware, software, etc. and the vendor’s profit margin is added on top of the base to get the final cost per resource.
Transparent cost
Complete transparency over salary, operational expense, and vendors profit margins. This makes it more lucrative
Quicker time to market
Start the captive operations quickly without needing to worry about infrastructure, talent and other needs. .
Lower Risks
Handle the local regulatory compliances, foreign companies and mitigate the risks of getting into any legal trouble because of being unaware of something
Lower cost of entry
Can start your operations without needing to make any initial capital investments and pay just for the services.
Higher control with lower risks
The primary objective of a captive center is to get better control over the outsourcing operations. A VCU provides just that without the risks associated a fully owned captive unit.