Case Study: Howden achieves improved engineering retention and productivity with SumTotal Systems

Howden - Customer Case Study

Howden, a Glasgow-founded engineering firm (est. 1854) with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, set an aggressive goal to double revenue and identified retention and development of engineering talent as critical. The company faced specific challenges around retaining newly hired engineers, building succession plans for retiring staff, and giving managers and executives timely HR and development information to measure and drive results.

Howden implemented SumTotal’s cloud-based Talent Expansion and Learn: Enterprise to launch the Howden Academy and an Engineering Career Ladder, creating a single global HR and talent system. The solution improved engineering productivity, lowered administrative costs, delivered a strong return on investment and reduced turnover—while enabling managers and executives to make better-informed HR and development decisions.

Howden

David Tough

Global HR Operations Manager