Assessment Tool Earns Finalist Spot for Microsoft's Worldwide Innovative Solutions Award
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — July 6, 2009 — Electronic Profiler/Career Booster (EP/CB), the newly enhanced skill assessment tools, have been selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide as a finalist for Microsoft's 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference Innovative Learning Solutions Award.
“It is a great honor to be recognized by Microsoft for the innovative learning solutions we have developed,” said Phil Hinderaker, President of Learning Lake. “From our free skill assessments that help us place students in the right class at the right time, to our strong community connections, we are proud to be selected as an industry leader.”
The Learning Solutions, Innovative Partner of the Year award recognizes partners’ commitment and ability to deliver high-quality, innovative learning services to meet customer needs.
“Partners are the key to igniting business innovation through great technology as well as helping customers drive down costs,” said Allison L. Watson, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Congratulations to the 2009 WPC Award finalists who have demonstrated a superior level of expertise as well as a focus on delivering customer value. We look forward to seeing these partners fulfill their limitless potential as they continue to provide customers with world-class Microsoft solutions.”
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
About the Winning Solution
Learning Lake, in collaboration with Microsoft, worked to help overcome specific CPLS obstacles affecting CPLS partner’s abilities to sell Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC), Microsoft Certifications and redeem Software Assurance Training Vouchers (SATV).
The “Empower Campaign: New Business Strategies to Accelerate Your Growth” was an initiative in which Learning Lake trained 14 CPLS centers in North America on the use of the Electronic Profiler/Career Booster (EP/CB) tool for a six-month pilot in Q2/Q3 FY 2009.
EP/CB offered a solution that improved SATV redemption for CPLS centers and for Microsoft: Post pilot, 88% of the CPLS centers surveyed stated they had a 10-30% increase in SATV redemption year over year. Further, when asked if the assessment component of EP/CB increased their customer engagement, 75% stated customer engagement had increased by 10-13% while 25% stated customer engagement had increased by 30-50%.
Through this initiative, Learning Lake built an approach and implemented a plan that helped CPLS centers truly become forward-thinking in the use of the EP/CB tool to help solve their business problems.
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