Are you getting value for money?
Are your Library procurement decisions made without understanding their connection to business value?
Is the return on investment in these libraries is unclear - whether it’s amazing & sparkly external content, internal content or prospective providers?
Use Filtered to get accurate data to support good decisions on content renewals.
Detailed analysis measuring alignment of enterprise libraries with your focus skills, on a constant, always-on basis for you & your teams to use whenever you need:
- Instant analyses of all existing and future skills against all existing content libraries
- Run detailed reports on tagged content, cost per asset and other measures to evaluate your content
- Ideal for ongoing library renewals or purchases, for procurement & CLO teams
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How to "Spend Better" with Content Intelligence
Buying learning content shouldn't be a gamble. In most organizations, up to 30% of content spend is wasted on redundant, irrelevant, or misaligned libraries.
Filtered’s Content Intelligence allows you to move away from "playing roulette" with your budget and toward a data-driven procurement strategy. Here is how to use Filtered to optimize your content spend and reinvest in the skills that matter.
The Procurement Challenge
L&D teams often purchase large content libraries based on vendor brand or generic catalogs. This leads to:
- Content Overlap: Paying for the same "Communication Skills" course across three different providers.
- Skill Gaps: Owning 10,000 assets but having zero high-quality content for your organization's specific technical priorities.
- Learning Excess: Paying for outdated or low-quality "shelfware" that learners never use.
Steps to Optimize Your Content Spend
- Map your Priority Skills
Before looking at what vendors offer, define what your business actually needs.
- Navigate to your Skills Framework Manager.
- Identify the "Priority Skills" that drive your business value.
- Ensure these skills are clearly defined with descriptions and proficiency levels.
- Benchmark Libraries Against Your Framework
Instead of reviewing a vendor's "Top 10" list, use Filtered to run their entire catalog against your specific skills.
- Upload Metadata: Import the catalogs of your current or prospective vendors.
- Analyze Relevance: Filtered’s AI benchmarks each library to show you exactly how many assets map to your priority skills.
- Identify Strengths: See which vendor truly "owns" a topic (e.g., Vendor A is best for Data Science, while Vendor B is better for Soft Skills).
- Detect and Remove Redundancies
Use the Overlap Analysis feature to see where you are paying for the same content twice.
- View a side-by-side comparison of your libraries.
- Identify "Duplicate Clusters” groups of assets from different vendors that cover the identical skill at the same level.
- Use this data to consolidate your subscriptions.
- Negotiate with Data
Enter your next renewal meeting with a "Content Value Analysis."
- Evidence-Based Renewal: Show vendors exactly which parts of their library are being used and which parts are redundant.
- Cost Savings: Use the 30% waste figure as a baseline for reducing seat counts or dropping underperforming libraries.
Pro Tip: Reinvesting the Surplus
Most Filtered clients save six figures by cutting misaligned content. We recommend reinvesting these savings into high-impact, bespoke content for your "Signature Skills" the unique capabilities that give your company its competitive edge.