2008

Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
Our Assets Are Our People

Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (Diamond) is a management and technology consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, with locations in Hartford, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Mumbai. Out of a total 626 employees, 290 work out of the Chicago office. Diamond’s small teams of experts work across functional and organizational boundaries to develop new strategies, improve operations, and deliver results for their clients. Diamond delivers three critical elements to every project: fact-based objectivity, spirited collaboration, and sustainable results.

Diamond is a small, aggressive 14-year old company, with a global business reach. The commitment to Diamond’s powerful core values guides everything they do. These core values are: People First, Trust, Leadership, and Collaboration. Adam Gutstein, Diamond’s President and CEO, discusses the company’s core values with every new hire. These values are also shared throughout the firm through many other vehicles, such as in the employee development and educational programs, the CEO’s weekly blog, the “All-Hands” Meetings for the entire staff, email, and voicemail interactions. Learn More

GE Commercial Finance
The Best Place to Be

GE Commercial Finance is one of six segments that comprise the General Electric Company. With cash flow- and asset-based lending products, real estate finance, growth capital, and equipment leasing of every kind, GE Commercial Finance plays a key role for client businesses in over 35 countries. GE Commercial Finance services the healthcare, manufacturing, fleet management, communications, construction, energy, aviation, infrastructure and equipment industries, as well as many others. GE Commercial Finance’s businesses include Capital Solutions, Corporate Financial Services, Real Estate, and Healthcare Financial Services.

The Chicago location of GE Commercial Finance contains the second largest concentration of employees, second only to Connecticut. The 2,500 Chicago GE Commercial Finance employees work in a culture of learning and continual growth, with many opportunities for career advancement. GE invests heavily in its new employees, so that by the end of the first few years, capable employees are well on their way to becoming leaders. GE offers a combination of formal and informal learning opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and in-house trainings taught by instructors from some of the best universities. Learn More

TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.
Working Together to Make a Difference in People’s Lives

TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. (TAP) understands the value of productive partnerships. The company was formed as a partnership between two large pharmaceutical companies: Abbott and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, which partnered in 1977 to form TAP and began commercial operations in 1985. TAP develops strong partnerships and alliances to help discover and develop high-potential pharmaceutical compounds that can enhance the lives of patients. TAP is one of the nation’s leaders in the markets where its products compete, and the company maintains and strengthens that position through its commitment and connection to patient care, physician education, and key business partner relationships.

TAP’s success is directly related to the quality and dedication of the people who work there, which is why even during an economic downturn, TAP continues to invest heavily in one of its biggest assets: its people. TAP provides defined career pathways for its employees, and supports these pathways through many formal and informal learning and development programs. Alan MacKenzie, President of TAP, understands that people want to work where they have many opportunities, so TAP spends a considerable amount of time, money, and energy developing strategies and programs for its employees. Learn More

2007

Advocate Health Care
Advancing patient care through learning and development

Advocate Health Care is one of the nation’s largest regional health care systems. Comprised of eight hospitals and over 200 sites of care, Advocate employs over 24,000 associates region-wide with the goal of providing excellent patient care. In order to meet the challenging demands of their industry as well as exceed this goal, Advocate has developed a more holistic approach to learning and development for its employees—one that focused on the ‘whole’ person, not just the technical skills that are required for the job.

Adding to this the strength of their pooled resources and relationships with local higher education institutions, and Advocate has been able to attract and retain a skilled workforce that constantly strives to provide the highest quality of patient care. Accepting the award on behalf of the organization was James Skogsbergh, President and CEO of Advocate Health Care. Learn More

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
Winning the war for talent through mass career customization

Deloitte and Touche USA is an international firm that specializes in providing advice to some of the world’s largest and most successful companies. With over 37,000 employees worldwide, Deloitte understands the value that its people bring to its organization and they take a business-critical approach to building the company’s intellectual capital through employee learning and development. This successful approach has helped Deloitte become a global leader in a variety of constantly evolving practices, such as tax, accounting, consulting, and financial advisory services, among others.

On June 6th, 2007, Deborah DeHaas, Vice Chairman and Regional Managing Partner, accepted the WorkforceChicago2.0 award on behalf of the Deloitte organization.
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2006

Accenture
Developing Professionals Through in Integrated Learning Culture.

Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, aligns corporate educational activities with business goals.

Through its distinctive training programs and strategic partnership with Accenture Learning, Accenture maximizes the impact of its training programs to rein-force its business strategy, expand the skills and knowledge of its people, and build an Accenture brand of professionalism.

According to Jill Smart, Senior Managing Director of Human Resources, “Learning at Accenture is changing people’s lives; it’s giving them more reason than ever to stay with us and grow both personally and professionally.”

Accenture has proven a generous return on their investment in providing extensive learning and development opportunities. Learn more

The information presented here was assembled in 2006. This does not necessarily represent the current status of Accenture.

IBM
Continuous Innovation for People Development

IBM is the world’s largest information technology company.

IBM invests three-quarters of a billion dollars annually in employee training and development. The company offers its employees an array of progressive learning opportunities designed to encourage innovation. This commitment to employee training and development represents IBM’s philosophy that educating and training a workforce enhances employee potential and productivity and generates bottom-line results for IBM and its clients.

As a result of its learning practices and shared values, IBM has successfully created a corporate culture that fosters employee development, enhances employee productivity, and generates bottom-line results for IBM and its clients. IBM offers an example of how technology can be maximized and applied in low cost ways to create a culture that breeds excitement about learning and development.

According to President and Chief Executive Officer Samuel Palmisano, “innovation has become a priority for the world today because it creates systemic, sustainable, and meaningful value. At IBM, however, we think the work of innovation is even more than a priority. It is, and has always been, a responsibility.” Learn more

The information presented here was assembled in 2006. This does not necessarily represent the current status of IBM.

2005

Conference Plus, Inc
Cultivating Experts by Providing a Mix of Formal and Informal Training.
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U.S. Cellular
Satisfied Associates in the Dynamic Organization.
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2004

ShoreBank
Committed to building wealth from within.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Best People Strategy = Best Patient Strategy.
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2003

Argonne National Laboratory
Investing in education and training to build loyal, long-term employees.
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Camcraft, Inc.
Sustaining a culture that values employee development.
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2002

Allstate Insurance Company
Blending innovative technological and traditional approaches to education to provide employees with customized learning opportunities.
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Bank One
Transforming its training and education system to streamline operations and provide greater accountability, strategic focus and more effective learning.
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Bimba Manufacturing Company
Supporting learning at all levels through pay for performance, linking employee and company goals, and integrating learning into work.
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Dunlee
Sustaining a culture of employee learning and involvement.
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Ernst & Young
Setting high expectations for employees’ growth and using smart technology to build and sustain learning solutions.
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Golin/Harris International
Going beyond specific job training to invest in the whole person to develop and retain the best PR professionals.
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Motorola, Inc
Continuing its commitment to employee learning and development through times of transition.
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The Northern Trust Company
Using training and development to build loyal, long-term employees.
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S&C Electric Company
Strategically using training, development opportunities and incentives to move production employees along a career path.
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TruServ Corporation
Using learning and development to achieve company business goals and forge a strong corporate identity.
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University of Chicago Hospitals
Building effective partnerships with educational institutions to provide employees with comprehensive, accessible and customized learning critical to hospital operation.
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