Client Successes

Here are a few client successes — or real solutions — we'd like to share with you. These stories cross many industries — health care, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing — and show you the real challenges we’ve helped our clients meet.

BCD Travel
Consistent organizational culture reinforced through a unified approach to development.
Results — Leaders across the organization are speaking a common leadership language and working with a common set of expectations.

Johnson Matthey
Hiring and developing talent for growth in Asia.
Results — A succinct interviewing process and improved leadership skills among its leaders in Asia.

Infosys
Developing a global sales force to grow revenue from $1 billion to $4 billion in just four years.
Results — 43 percent of company revenues generated from services not offered five years earlier—evidence of Infosys’ growing ability to sell more strategic solutions.

Philips
A complex organisation streamlines its global approach to training.
Results — Delivered a unified core leadership development curriculum to more than 11,000 leaders in 35 countries. Centralised approach has established a common use of leadership terminology across Philips organisation.

Sanofi-aventis
Hiring the best sales talent to drive continued growth.
Results — By completing the scale-up early, realized 15,578 additional sales days worth an estimated $15 million in savings.
 
Gillette
Identifying, screening, and selecting high-quality, high-potentials for management positions.
Results — Leveraged positive candidate experiences and the uniqueness of the selection process to build relationships with universities to better recruit top graduates.

SAP
Identifying the right leaders to lead a systems integration.
Results — The data from the DDI assessment centers provided valuable information to guide the systematic development of top managers.

Siemens
Creating tailored individual assessment centers to test defined capabilities in order to identify leaders who are ready to take on leadership roles.
Results — 30 percent of the executives that have gone through DDI’s assessments within a year were moved to different roles.

General Motors Corporation
Standardizing selection and assessment to boost quality and improve performance.
Results — General Motors meets its minority candidate placement goal every year while the quality of candidates has trended higher.
 
The Boeing Company
Developing a selection system to rapidly hire 2,000 people.
Results — Boeing managers reported an 80 to 90 percent hiring success rate at the interview stage.

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