Cornerstone Success Stories

Whether it is development of best practices, creation of operational efficiencies, increases in workforce productivity or an improved leadership development pipeline, learn first-hand about how organisations of all shapes and sizes are seeing an impact on their business by using Cornerstone’s integrated talent management software and services. 

In a modern global economy, more organisations are spreading their offices and employees
over multiple locations. As a result, the entire employment process for a highly decentralised workforce – from onboarding to assessing performance and building skills – can be difficult, especially without the systems in place to help employees learn from their co-workers.
Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM) needed a comprehensive and efficient learning and talent management solution that fostered collaboration among its distributed workforce and unified several areas of HR. Download now.

Allied Building Products is in the business of buliding America through super customers service and diverse product offerings. With Cornerstone Learning, Allied has seen a 50% improvement in safety compliance reporting and is reducing training spend by 20% over 3 years. Download now.

BJC HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest non-profit healthcare organisations, addresses these challenges every day as it strives to deliver exceptional patient care with its 26,000 employees at 13 hospitals and multiple community health locations in the greater St. Louis area. Because of its numerous employees and locations, BJC needed a better way to manage and educate employees, ensure compliance, and provide easy reporting to managers. Download now.

Feeding America, America’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, uses Cornerstone Learning for greater talent readiness and employee productivity at 7,400 food banks. Employees have access to more than 200 courses covering fundraising, food sourcing, food safety and professional development. Download now.

GECU, El Paso’s largest locally owned financial institution and one of the largest credit unions in the state of Texas, has seen an immediate impact after the implementation of Cornerstone Learning (LMS), which they have internally branded as “ELITE” (Enterprise Learning and Instruction Tracking Engine).  Download now.

Grass Valley needed a solution that would support Web-based training and a self-service portal for their extended enterprise of customers and partners around the world. With Cornerstone's Extended Enterprise platform, Grass Valley University has had a significant impact on the company’s customer enablement efforts. Download now.

In order to stay agile as conditions change and different financial instruments go in and out of vogue, HML proactively sought to transform its culture over a three-year period. This meant engineering a shift away from emphasising length of service, technical expertise as a proxy for managerial and leadership ability, and specialisation by geographic location. To support its new workforce strategy, HML implemented Cornerstone OnDemand’s comprehensive, Software-as-a-Service SaaS)-based talent management suite – including solutions for learning management, employee performance management, succession planning and enterprise social networking. The company’s technology investment paid off, with HML achieving dramatic results both ahead of schedule and under budget. Download now.

Kelly Services, a staffing provider of more than 530,000 skilled temporary workers around the world, uses the Cornerstone Learning and Talent Management solution to better engage and empower both its own workforce and those of the organizations that it serves. Download now.

RSA is a giant in the insurance industry. The company’s 22,000 employees provide comprehensive insurance solutions to millions worldwide. A historic organisation with 300-plus years of tradition, RSA is comprised of numerous strong individual businesses. Yet its Learning and Development (L&D) processes were out of date and there was a general lack of L&D resources. Learning was delivered regionally, resulting in duplication of effort; the focus remained on face-to-face training – with no means of following up – and only the UK used technology in its L&D initiatives. In short, the existing system was not effective for the organisation.
As RSA sought to more closely align employee development to organisational growth, the company’s L&D team created a capability framework to identify skill gaps across the organisation. They determined the best way to close those gaps was through the adoption of learning technologies. Download now.

Save the Children strives to inspire breakthroughs in the ways in which the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives through lifesaving interventions in health, education, protection and emergency response. The Save the Children staff works in impoverished communities in the United States and around the world from Nicaragua to Ethiopia to Haiti to ensure that children can survive and thrive, and that their families and communities have the resources and skills to enable them to do so. To meet these goals, Save the Children needed to build an empowered leadership team and engaged workforce with the right skills and competencies.Download now.

Teach For America's corps members must be skilled instructional planners and data-driven decision makers in order to ensure that their students catch up academically to their more affluent peers. The organisation was seeking a more efficient and effective way to help Teach For America teachers develop robust skills in areas such as academic goal setting, assessment creating, and planning effectively to reach student learning goals. Since implementing Cornerstone, Teach For America has seen significant improvement in both the productivity and effectiveness of corps members across the country. Download now.

Growing senior management bench strength is a top priority at United Stationers, North America’s largest broad-line wholesale distributor of business products. The company is highly focused on succession planning for senior leadership and top management positions as a keystone of its talent strategy. The main purpose of succession planning at United Stationers is to provide a strong pipeline of leadership over time for all senior positions in the organisations, ensuring continuity of management. Over the past five years, succession planning at United Stationers has evolved from a paper-based, once-a-year presentation to the board of directors to an automated, formalised and integrated process that occurs throughout the year. Involving a broad spectrum of participants, this new process encourages communication about people development and is linked to other talent management processes. The following case study, authored by Bersin & Associates examines, examines several facets of United Stationers’ succession strategy, which includes support from Cornerstone OnDemand as its technology solution. Download now.

The United Way of the Bay Area (UWBA) recognised that better talent management can enable better use of limited resources, allowing the organisation to better help millions of people. As a non-profit, UWBA leveraged the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation to create a tool for talent management and organisational alignment that supports growth of their employees as well as strengthens their outreach to the community.  This case study, authored by Bersin & Associates, examines how UWBA implemented Cornerstone for goal-setting and performance management to replace its outdated annual review process. Download now.