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 managament 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.

Brasil Telecom
Like 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 Group
The 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.

LA County Department of Mental Health
After receiving a large funding increase, the LA County Department of Mental Health (DMH) was inundated with requests for new IT projects. To meet this challenge, DMH's CIO selected ESI to provide staff with the formal training and consistent methodologies required for success. 

New York State Office of the State Comptroller
The New York State Office of the State Comptroller (NYSOSC) serves as the state's chief fiscal and accounting office. Recognizing the importance of maintaining its own project management and business analysis capabilities, the NYSOSC sought to establish a Business Analysis Center of Excellence after building a reputation through its Project Management Center of Excellence.

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. 

State of Michigan
When the State of Michigan needed a proven project management learning program, they turned to ESI International for its certification offerings, high-quality instructors and excellent customer service. After the first year of program implementing, Michigan saw increased structure in their project management process as well as improvements in employee satisfaction and retention.

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.

U.S. Census Bureau
Convinced that improving project management was the key to its future success, U.S. Census Bureau leaders tapped ESI to help develop a tailored training program to teach skills that could be adapted and applied to the real-life projects that the organization deals with every day.