Our clients partner with ESI to guide them as they improve organizational performance and achieve such strategic goals as improved competitive positioning, greater customer satisfaction, improved financial performance and increased employee retention.
Whether you're implementing a world class global project management program like
Tetra Pak; creating a center of excellence like
Piedmont Natural Gas; or launching an intiative to increase competitiveness through improved project management like
GlaxoSmithKline, we invite you to see how our clients have achieved their goals with the help of ESI by reading some of our case studies.
Automatic Data ProcessingIn 2005, ADP’s NAS PMO launched an advanced learning program to its implementation team with a focus on project management fundamentals. This initial effort proved so successful that in 2006 ADP asked learning partner, ESI International, to assess their broader, existing project management capabilities and chart the long-term course to meet their goals. ESI tailored the assessment to explore specific issues identified by ADP.
ASMLIn 2005 ASML decided to assess its project capabilities. The assessment showed that while there was no agreed ASML project management methodology, many engineers applied a range of project management skills and tools to gather requirements, plan and track their projects. In 2006, ASML selected ESI International to help drive and support their project management goals.
Brasil TelecomLike many telecommunications companies around the world, Brasil Telecom faced high-risk project and IT challenges. Company executives knew that if they were going to compete in this newly deregulated, highly competitive industry, it was time to change.
Delta Technology
Delta Technology required a consistent methodology to more successfully gather and clearly document requirements. ESI International and Delta Technology tailored a learning program that created a baseline for success and ensured consistency for the future.
GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline is a pharmaceutical company that conducts many large-scale medicine discovery and development projects that can run for more than a decade and consume a vast amount of the company’s resources. In 2006, when GSK launched its iPlan initiative to integrate its project and portfolio planning, the company turned to ESI International to deliver performance improvement learning in project management.
The Hanover Insurance GroupThe Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG) is a leading property and casualty insurance provider based in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States. The company distributes its products through independent agents across the country. For the past five years, The Hanover has partnered with ESI International to deliver instructor-led learning to business analysts in its technology division.
Henkels & McCoy Henkels & McCoy needed to help increase efficiency internally and develop seamless communication with their many large general contracting partners. With ESI International's eLearning, Henkels & McCoy achieved a standardized, global project management methodology throughout the organization.
HP Services After recognizing a need for a performance improvement plan for their project managers, HP Services partnered with ESI for a project management learning program to reduce the number of troubled projects, increase operating margins and provide a more flexible project workforce. Since partnering with ESI in 1996, HP Services has recognized not only strengthened project management skills but also increased business competencies.
Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) PTC’s leaders recognized that as the company had grown from its founding in 1985 — organically and through acquisition— standards for project management had self-developed in regional isolation around the world. This disparate approach to project management was identified as a barrier to maintaining the company’s leadership position. Development of a global project management program encompassing standards, processes and career paths became a key corporate goal. PTC chose ESI International for its understanding of PTC’s business, its global reach and its reputation for outstanding customer service.
Piedmont Natural Gas Piedmont Natural Gas implemented a Project Management Center of Excellence (CoE) with the vision of leading the company in transforming business strategy into business results. They chose ESI as their learning partner to build a results-oriented learning program.
PeopleSoft In 2000, PeopleSoft realized that to differentiate the company through their employees skills and competencies. To achieve this practices needed to be consistent and showcased through suitable professional certification. They turned to ESI to help them reach their goal of having all project managers within the PeopleSoft UK environment become PMP
® certified.
Siemens
Siemens' switch from selling hardware to selling integrated solutions resulted in complex installation projects and the need for new project management approaches. Siemens selected ESI International to help it tackle this new business challenge.
Tetra Pak Believing that effective project management underpins leadership, quality and customer understanding, Tetra Pak partnered with ESI International to build and deliver a globally consistent, instructor led, project management learning and development program. Tetra Pak and ESI have been working together on project management learning programs since 2001.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
When the U.S. Bureau of Land Management needed a tailored project management learning program for its employees, the agency turned to ESI International. Partner since 1990, the two organizations worked together to customize a highly effective learning program that met the BLM’s targeted program objectives.