How Allianz upskilled 6,000+ employees across the globe with DataCamp

The challenge: building data capability across a global workforce

Allianz was founded in Germany in 1890 and has provided insurance and asset management services to its customers worldwide for more than a century. Many consider insurance actuaries to be the first data-driven professionals, using data to predict future risks and losses.

Following in this tradition of embracing data insights, the Group Data Analytics team at Allianz SE (Global Headquarters) had a mission to empower everyone in the organization to become more data literate.

The company’s upskilling program went beyond the traditional technical insurance profiles you might expect, reaching across teams including HR and Communications, highlighting how important it is for every role to know how to access and extract insights from data. Everyone will need data literacy skills to understand and make data-driven decisions.

Allianz needed to change how they delivered training. It needed a scalable way to bring together a global workforce into an easily accessible, digital learning opportunity. The challenge went beyond just delivering a solution to digest information, though. That solution needed to empower employees to learn new skills and be able to take what they learned and apply it back to their day-to-day work.

To be truly transformational, Allianz needed a way to bring data analytics not just to the experts but to all employees across the organization. To achieve their vision, they needed to find a scalable way to:

• Build awareness and understanding of data analytics for all employee
• Upskill analytics experts and reskill employees transitioning into data analytics role
• Provide a one-stop-shop for data analytics learning content

The solution: customized, role-relevant learning

Data literacy is never a one-size-fits-all problem. Having such unique requirements can make it difficult for a business, especially one positioned globally, to find the help they need to deliver. Allianz needed a partner who understood their specific needs for learning.

DataCamp partnered with internal experts at Allianz to learn what the organization needed and deliver custom learning solutions:

• 2 custom learning paths for specific technologies and functions
• 3 private tailored capstone projects for its members to apply their DataCamp training to real Allianz marketing and claims use case
• Learners could also complete any other training available on DataCamp

Tailoring the learning experience to the needs of Allianz was central to the success of their program. DataCamp worked closely with Allianz to adapt how they provide world-class onboarding, guidance, and personalized marketing materials to make the program the success it is today.

The results: applying new skills to boost productivity

Allianz was able to deliver key results very quickly.

They started with a 100-person trial, to see if DataCamp could deliver on a global scope of the upskilling initiative. As their needs increased rapidly, DataCamp was able to scale with ease. The program quickly grew over 5,900% from the original pilot group to over 6,000 learners.

After the trial, Allianz sent out a survey to see how their team felt about what DataCamp delivered. The results were a resounding success.

• 91.2 hours average time-saved per week per employee using the skill learned on DataCamp
• 30,000 hands-on learning hours across a wide range of topics including Python, Data literacy, SQL, Power BI, Spreadsheets, and more
• 4.2/5 average rating by Allianz learners