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OpenSesame Case Study

Koenig & Bauer saves time and money with OpenSesame

Introduction

This case study of Koenig & Bauer is based on a November 2016 survey of OpenSesame customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“OpenSesame saves me time finding and administering courses for my learners.”

“OpenSesame saves my company money in delivering and administering training courses for our learners.”

“We now have easy access to a variety of courses.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select OpenSesame:

  • Major organizational learning and development challenges:
    • Meeting the needs of a diverse workforce (multi-generational, multi-lingual)
    • Offering mobile, on the go training
    • Building a learning culture at their company
    • Training a mix of managers and employees
    • Building future leaders
    • Easily implementing a learning and development program
    • Serving the needs of different job functions (sales, marketing, leadership)

Use Case

Learning and development profile:

  • Uses the following learning management system (LMS):
    • Cornerstone
  • Primary reasons for purchasing OpenSesame:
    • It integrated with their current LMS
    • The catalog had the courses they were looking for
    • The catalog had high-quality courses
    • The breadth of the catalog satisfies the broad needs of their company
  • Main category / course used from OpenSesame:
    • HR compliance

Results

  • Has seen the following benefits since using OpenSesame:
    • Can find the right training courses
    • Can find training courses of high-quality
    • Gained access to a broad spectrum of training courses their company needed
    • Can easily evaluate and curate the training courses they need
    • Lowered training costs
    • Improved employee utilization of training
    • Improved employee engagement / satisfaction with training
    • Lowered their IT / administration overhead
  • Rates the following OpenSesame features compared to other companies delivering course content:
    • Breadth and quality of courses: best in class
    • Affordability: best in class
    • Customer service: best in class
    • Ease of administering courses: best in class
    • Integration with their LMS: best in class




About This Data

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