BAYER

CASE STUDY

THE CLIENT

Bayer is a life science company and a global leader in health care and nutrition. Their innovative products support efforts to overcome the major challenges presented by a growing and ageing global population. Guided by their corporate purpose “Bayer: Science for a better life,” the Group helps to prevent, alleviate and treat diseases. Bayer aims to bolster profitability and create value for their customers, shareholders and employees. Around the world, the Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality. In fiscal 2018, the Group employed around 116,998 (as of 31.12.2018) people and had sales of EUR 39.6 billion. The investment into research and development amounted EUR 5.2 billion.

THE CHALLENGE

A tradition of lifelong learning is deeply rooted in the Bayer company culture. It is a guiding principle that ensures Bayer is continuously evolving and innovating while developing a highly-skilled workforce. To maximise all learning and development (L&D) initiatives, Bayer replaced over 80 disparate learning systems with a cohesive global learning management system that delivers consistent training to all employees in 241 geographical locations. Furthermore, Bayer required its cloud-based learning solution to remove barriers to self-directed learning in all professional situations and provide all employees access to a comprehensive range of learning in both multiple formats and languages.

THE Solution

Bayer examined 10 learning content suppliers and selected our off the shelf digital learning library because of both the scope and quality of its training and its attractive price-performance ratio. The library achieved the highest rating for a comprehensive cloud assessment which considered factors such as data protection, IT security, IT integration as well as enterprise architecture. Its fast implementation, and its high technical compatibility with SAP SuccessFactors facilitated the complex integration. Bayer populated My Learning, its learning portal, with over 7,000 pieces of digital learning content in 29 languages, including the Digital Transformation and Leadership solutions.