Case Studies

Scroll down to the table of recent case studies or click on the links below to request the summary case studies that show how blue-chip companies have measured - and thereby improved-their L&D impact. Creating a full case study of an evaluation, with support from abdi ltd, is central to the process leading to our certification.

VT Group saved £263K in the twelve months following training in basic skills that cost £109K all told. One key to the intervention's success was acting promptly on the early evaluation results.
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Le Meridien Hotels achieved a 203% return on investment when it used the ROI methodology to evaluate training to help hotels' conference coordinators achieve sales targets. The secret of success here was bringing together the right people - and that happened because of the step-by-step planning required by the abdi ROI methodology.
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Flagship Training sought a means to evaluate the impact of a development day for middle managers. The projects the managers were asked to plan and execute provided measurable outputs and a return on investment of 184%.
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A global communications company monitored the impact of a £400K L&D programme to develop consultative selling methods in its senior sales professionals. The evaluation demonstrated a ROI of 171%, showed how to fine-tune the selection criteria for the programme and generated a number of management improvements.
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Case studies from a range of sectors (Click on the Theme to request for the Case study)

Case theme	Organisation	Sector	Type of project/programme	Date of submission
Skills for Employability	British Council	Public	Evaluation of a Global Programme for developing skills and increasing youth employability	Oct 2011
Improving Education in Challenging Iraq	British Council	Public	Evaluating the impact of the project launched to improve the quality of education in Iraq	Nov 2011
Elevator partnership	Defra	Government	Equal Opportunities and Diversity	March 2006
Sales and Meetings Champions Programme	Le Meridian Hotels	Hotel group	Sales and Customer Support Programme	May 2006
Employer Employment	Warwickshire College	Education	Measuring Impact of employer engagement training programmes	Nov 2009
Added value through evaluation	VT Shipbuilding	Shipbuilding/ Trade Union led Education Services	Basic skills and ICT	June 2006
Measuring the partnership approach between the UK and Croatia	British Council	Public	Measuring the effectiveness of the Partnership approach project	Nov 2011
Measuring impact in a period of volatility	VT FourS	Services to government	Project Management	June 2006
Pharmaceutical Technical specialists	NHS	Healthcare	Evaluating implementation of skills acquired in an e-learning course	July 2011
Fostering innovation	VT Flagship	Training	Management Development	April 2007
Tele-Sales development programme	Hewlette Packard	IT	Impact Outcomes of a new tele-sales approach adopted	April 2010
Consultative sales	[confidential]	Communications	High-level sales training	August 2007
Specialist Sales Training	Volkswagen	Automotive retail	Impact of specialist sales training programmes	June 2011
The 'Falls' prevention programme	NHS	Healthcare	Planning a high impact 'Fall prevention' programme for older people	Sep 2011
MATT 2: Changing attitudes	British Council	Public	A cost-benefit analysis of the MATT 2 project which deals with Civil services in Bangladesh	Nov 2011
Management Development	[confidential]	Fast - Food chain	Analysis of new Management development programmes for new chain	Sep 2010
Patient Health Impact	NHS	Healthcare	Evaluation of Staff training on Patient health and well being	Sep 2011
Vision 2020	WHO	International development (Health)	Evaluation of a Global Eye-care programme run in Africa	July 2011
Sales Manager Development Programme	British Telecom	Communications	Evaluation of a Leadership prpgramme for Sales Managers	July 2011
Business Manager development programme	M&B	Hospitality	A high level skill-evaluation training programme for Area Managers	June 2011
Call Centre Training Programme	Choice Hotels	Hotel group	Assess behaviour change with newly acquired skills	July 2011
Sales Managers' development programme	[confidential]	Communications	Leadership development	September 2007

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