Wärtsilä, a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets, was facing a communication bottleneck due to its global operations. The company's sales cycles could run up to five years, and the rapid changes in the marine and energy sectors due to factors like climate change and regulatory requirements made it crucial for the sales teams to stay updated. However, the company's traditional learning management system (LMS) was unable to deliver mobile, instant accessibility, which was necessary for the sales teams to keep up with the industry changes.

PriceLabs, a leading revenue management platform for vacation and short-term rentals, was seeking a solution to record customer calls. The aim was to uncover customers’ sentiment and gain insight into their needs. The product team felt that there were new solutions that weren’t being adequately pitched. Recorded calls would help PriceLabs share feedback with the product team and also help identify where the team was missing the mark on explaining its product. This was particularly important as PriceLabs had doubled its team in the previous six months, and planned to double the team again in the following six months.

Splunk, a data technology company, was facing challenges with its existing training program. The program, hosted solely by a Learning Management System (LMS) and populated by the Splunk content team, was no longer meeting the company’s needs. The sales training consisted of a library of e-learning courses that were primarily video-based modules. Every new hire leveraged the same content in their onboarding process, regardless of their skill level. Additionally, coaching, a crucial aspect in the development and training of sales reps, was inconsistent among sales managers and not streamlined or well-defined. Splunk determined that all these issues could be addressed by creating a culture of coaching at the company, underpinned by investment in enablement technology.

Menemsha Group started as a traditional sales training company, hosting live workshops and webinars for its client base of IT recruiting companies. Clients loved the content, but had no way to measure results of the training over time. Beyond the half-, full-, or multi-day session, there was no method for quantifying or certifying knowledge. Additionally, Dan Fisher, Menemsha Group’s founder, needed to re-evaluate his content delivery methods with the goal of being able to scale his business and take on new clients without the drastic additional headcount required for in-person training. He also needed a way to deliver a quantifiable service so that clients engage with him on an ongoing basis, rather than one-and-done training sessions. Menemsha Group reached a point where it was only generating revenue when Fisher and his team were out in front of customers, working around the clock—and burnout was setting in. In an effort to scale the business without increasing work hours, they experimented with different learning management systems (LMS), all of which they found to simply serve as content repositories.