A week and a half ago now, but still the content keeps coming from our Generate initiative with Towards Maturity. And what a great question this one is, albeit one with a wide variety of utility in its answers. What would you add to this wall of info?

What are your top tips for delivering great L&D on a budget?

• Do a thorough LNA/TNA
• Develop an in-house free social network
• Use all the business resources you have e.g. SMEs
• Use MOOCS!
• Don’t use MOOCs use SPOCs!
• Give everyone the power to edit
• Use in-house options: job swaps, secondments, projects
• Text-based scenarios can be just as good as elearning
• Make your own pictures, drawings and videos
• Online reduces fixed costs e.g., travel, accommodation
• Build an open-source resource library
• Set up a trial group - under promise and over deliver 
• Base decisions around problem

• Make sure everyone is on the same page and keeping inside budget

• Optimise technology
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• Think big and broad before tailoring for individuals
• Use delegates prior experience to form core
• Collaborate
• Look outward
• Understand the new stuff coming through
• Learn from the third sector
• Make L&D not budget the focus
• Copy the masters
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• Don’t be an HR dinosaur