Volkswagen Group – National Learning Centre (056)

One of our favourite projects was the development of the Volkswagen National Learning Centre. We were engaged to help manage the project and its six workstreams, including the processes, organisational design, fit out and systems for the state of the art facility. Despite a few challenges during its development, the NLC opened on schedule and has been serving hundreds of delegates per day since then.

Need

Project management of the creation of a large training centre.

Context

Volkswagen Group (UK) is responsible for sales of Audi, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen cars and commercial vehicles in the UK. In 2003, the Group commissioned the build of its £8.3m National Learning Centre.

Issues / Challenges

Tight deadline for opening – January 4^th 2005
Meeting the expectations of premium brands

Aims of the project

We were engaged to help manage the project and its six workstreams that included the processes, organisational design, fit out and systems for the state of the art facility. The building work ran through 2003 and 2004 and the ‘business’ part of the project really kicked off at the start of 2004.