SumTotal Press Release SumTotal Systems, the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney, has chosen the SumTotal Enterprise Suite to expand and enhance A.T. Kearney’s Global Professional Development program. The company will use the SumTotal solution to centralize learning across its worldwide organization and to drive readiness for consultants and other personnel.
The SumTotal Enterprise Suite, including TotalLMS and TotalLCMS, will replace two legacy solutions, significantly decreasing the company’s cost of ownership, and consolidating learning delivery, management and measurement into a single, streamlined resource that better meets A.T. Kearney’s current and future organizational development needs. Powered by the SumTotal solution, A.T. Kearney’s Global Professional Development program will provide centralized access to classroom courses, Web seminars, training and other learning activities and information, including pre-work, presentations, hand-outs, recorded Web seminars and links to external resources.
“At A.T. Kearney, our entire focus is helping the world’s leading corporations improve their products and services, business relationships and bottom line economics in order to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. And we do that by cultivating and supporting the best, most knowledgeable consulting professionals in the industry,” said Al Morrison, A.T. Kearney’s vice president of global professional development. “Using the SumTotal Suite will significantly boost our ability to give our employees the up-to-the minute information and key professional development opportunities they need to maintain our company’s reputation for outstanding counsel.”
According to Morrison, SumTotal will help A.T. Kearney achieve key goals, including:
Driving greater employee ownership in personal and professional development.
Creating a central repository for training and development resources and activities
Providing a robust, but easy-to-use, reporting system to show learning impact by group and region
Integrating with the company’s HRIS solution to more closely align learning, performance and human resources data to provide a full view of each employee’s skills, experience, etc.
“We needed a solution that met all of our requirements — not only on paper, but also in a realistic trial environment - and one that would be highly configurable instead of requiring expensive customizations,” said Morrison. “SumTotal met those usability requirements and we were able to easily prototype and test what we envisioned for our LMS before we implemented it.”
“For management consulting firms like A.T. Kearney, industry knowledge and employee expertise are at the core of their ability to achieve success for their clients and for themselves as well. That makes it critical for these companies to be able to deliver, share and accelerate that knowledge and expertise among their employees as rapidly and efficiently as possible — even across global organizations,” said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. “SumTotal has worked with A.T. Kearney to create a more sophisticated learning infrastructure that ensures the daily readiness of its employees and helps them further develop the flexibility, creativity and innovative thinking to meet their clients’ needs.”
