Sumo sees a 42% increase in talent after launching Thrive
Learners using Thrive
Challenges addressed with Thrive
Integrations used
Increase in overall talent
Sumo's learning vision
With thousands of employees spread across the world, Sumo Group needed a platform that could surface employee expertise and share it across the entire company, connecting people in different locations. When looking for a new LMS, Sumo found the more traditional platforms didn't have the social features they needed to fulfil their vision.
Their key objective was to cultivate a culture in which everybody can take ownership of their own personal development, and the platform also needed to serve as the perfect workplace hub for leaders to get messages out to the whole organisation. Finally, as a gaming company with UI and UX at the heart of what they do, it was crucial their LMS was engaging, easy and intuitive. The challenge was building a genuine social learning culture while maintaining the skills development that kept their creative teams at the top of the games industry.
An award-winning partnership
The new learning platform, named "DOJO," brought to life a self-directed, social learning culture and enabled improved communication across the business. With Thrive's auto-curation tools, the L&D team launched with a range of curated content covering wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion. Spaces gave studios their own communities for sharing expertise, while structured pathways supported leadership development and creative career progression across the group.
Sumo Group also created a hugely popular campaign named DOJO Dukebox: a Spotify playlist embedded in Thrive with a weekly theme that learners could add songs to. This brought teams together and allowed them to feel social while working remotely, helping DOJO become not just the go-to place for learning, but the go-to social space for their people to connect.
From worlds apart to world class
The positive impact of DOJO was felt strongly in Sumo's employee responses to The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For survey. From 2019 to 2021, Sumo's overall score went from 1 star (very good) to 3 stars (world-class). Highlighting L&D and DOJO during recruitment also drove a 42% increase in overall talent and a 10% increase in promotions compared to the previous year.
After using Thrive's in-house team of Data Analysts as part of the Thrive Impact service, Sumo was able to prove the impact of its learning activity, leading to the partnership winning two awards: the Digital prize at the 2022 Learning Excellence Awards, and silver in "Best Use of Digital Technologies" at the 2022 UK Employee Experience Awards. Analytics gave leadership visibility of engagement and skills development across every studio worldwide.
"Unanimously, Thrive came back as our provider of choice because of the great user experience, it was so easy to use and understand. We put it out to our people and asked how they felt about it. People said it was so intuitive and I'm going to be coming back to it regularly, which was the key point for us.”
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