Case study

Leveraging AI to uncover $50M in revenue growth and $500K in savings

A global Fortune 100 beverage brand recognized the need to maximize AI's potential and increase the technology’s adoption internally. The company partnered with Correlation One to equip its employees with the necessary AI skills.
Industry Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
No. of employees 700k
Revenue $46B

76

AI-driven business opportunities identified through employee capstone projects aimed at driving cost savings and efficiency gains

97%

completion rate from employee participants

300+

hours of personalized 1:1 AI Expert coaching

Context

A global, Fortune 100 beverage brand partnered with Correlation One to deliver an AI Skills Training program to 400 employees. The training was delivered virtually to employees across 12 countries and 15 functional areas with a focus on:

The power of AI and generative AI
AI use cases and prompt engineering
How to enhance your work day and team with AI

The training program was then wrapped up with a final capstone project, in which employees identified an AI-driven business opportunity for their organization.

Goals

Correlation One’s AI Skills Training program was designed to empower the global beverage brand’s workforce with:

A deep understanding of the AI and generative AI landscape
Ways to identify business use cases for the technology
Techniques to strategically increase the adoption and the application of AI internally, including the use of Copilot and an in-house GPT technology
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Correlation One's solution

 

Every Correlation One upskilling program requires participants to complete a capstone project. With a focus on hands-on training and skills application, the capstone projects empowered employees to action AI areas of opportunities that improved key business metrics such as:


Cost reduction
Workforce productivity
Revenue generation

 

In total, staff at the global beverage brand completed 76 capstone projects that uncovered AI-driven opportunities.

 

Results

 

By partnering with Correlation One, the global beverage brand was able to support its workforce with hands-on, AI learning experiences that prioritized on-the-job skills application. As a result, the organization was able to:

 
400
employees upskilled in AI
technology best practices
76
AI-driven business opportunities
uncovered through capstone projects
 
The employee’s AI capstone projects were particularly valuable as they identified opportunities for:
$50M
employees upskilled in AI technology best practices
6,700+
hours of labor that can be automated with AI
$550K+
in direct cost savings

AI upskilling in action: Key insights from capstone projects

 
It’s not only going to revolutionize the way we work but it’s also going to significantly improve productivity by saving up to a third of an employee’s time by removing all the mundane and repetitive tasks to save an approximate $17M in salary.
Director, Marketing and AI upskilling participant
We figured out that if we’re able to successfully become a top player in this market category it can earn us up to $6M. Using generative AI saved us at least two weeks of time.
Senior Manager, Digital Experiences and AI upskilling participant