Your team is capable.
That was never the question.
A project shows up with a date that will not move and more work than your team has bandwidth for, so you bring in a partner. The one you choose decides whether you get capacity back or the work.
Outsourcing Learning Services Should Add Capacity, Not Complexity
How to choose a partner that carries the work, the coordination, and the follow-through.
What most evaluations miss.
The guide gives you a way to evaluate a partner before you sign. You’ll come away able to:
- Tell a genuinely integrated partner from a capabilities list that only looks the part, even as more firms consolidate and start to sound alike.
- Spot the signs of the hidden labor a vendor will hand back.
- Bring the right questions to a partner conversation and learn to listen for the questions a strong partner asks.
- Ask to see the delivery artifacts and process that show how you can expect the work to run.
“When this partner leaves, what will my team own that we never agreed to own?”
Forty-five years of innovation in learning
From wiring an Apple II to a LaserDisc player to conversational AI simulations, AllenComm has been leading the industry in learning services and technology since 1981.
Custom content and learning technology came first. Consulting and staffing were formalized as service lines in 2023 as client needs changed and the work required broader support. Each capability was added for a reason: to help clients solve the real problems that sit behind enterprise learning initiatives.
“If you really have something that’s gonna have to be done and you know your career and your future’s on the line for it, I would go with them.”
A VP of training at a leading national design-build construction and engineering firm.
AllenComm’s top 50 client relationships average nearly 13 years. The names that keep returning are among the world’s biggest: a leading airline, a global food company, financial institutions, technology leaders. They stay because the work holds up. AllenComm is one of the few independently owned, US-founded learning services firms consistently ranked as a top provider in the L&D industry.
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