Submitted by Robin.Kim on April 1, 2009 - 6:42am
FALLS CHURCH, VA, April 1, 2009 – One year after joining the Adayana family of companies, VERTEX Solutions has united with three other leading learning and development firms to market its services as one brand, Adayana (www.adayana.com). A global human capital development and organizational improvement company, Adayana combines the resources and expertise of VERTEX Solutions of Falls Church and Champaign, IL; ABG of Indianapolis, IN; Gradepoint and Adayana Automotive of Detroit, MI, and Adayana of Minneapolis, MN, and Hyderabad, India.
Established in 1996, VERTEX Solutions is a prime contractor for U.S. government learning services and organizational performance systems, and will continue to serve this important market as the Adayana Government Group A privately held company, Adayana employs approximately 400 professionals who will now serve clients in the federal government, automotive, agribusiness, healthcare and food and beverage vertical markets.
“This targeted vertical market approach is a significant differentiator for Adayana,” says Mike Jackson, founder of ABG and now Adayana CEO and President. “Instead of attempting to be all things to all people, we focus our expertise on the specific vertical markets we know well. Clients come to Adayana because our deep experience in their vertical markets enables us to collaborate with them to identify the unique opportunities, situations and environments in which their people and their organization operate. We use this vertical-market knowledge, along with best practices from the other markets we serve, to apply our services to the unique performance needs of their people, their channel partners and their organization.”
Adayana has integrated the expertise of its legacy companies into five service categories for human capital development and organizational success.
- Learning Solutions & Delivery includes personalized learning experiences; customized courses; effective blending of instructor-led training, e-Learning, and mobile learning to maximize job performance, employee retention and leadership succession.
- Strategy & Management Consulting helps clients define, clarify and implement their organization’s vision through measurable objectives and strategic actions that build relationships with customers, channel partners, employees and stakeholders.
- Branding & Strategic Communications consists of Adayana Inside-out™ Branding and other internal communications tools that help clients translate their organizational strategy and product features into benefits valued by their stakeholders.
- Performance Technologies helps clients connect their people efficiently and effectively through today’s leading technology development and delivery platforms, including mobile technology.
- Managed Learning Services enables clients to leverage their subject-matter expertise through Adayana’s proven operational performance improvement techniques, including seamless development, delivery, and connectivity of crucial knowledge and skills to employees, channel partners and stakeholders.
Adayana clients include civilian, defense and homeland security agencies of the U.S. government; leading companies and trade organizations in the equipment, crop protection, fertilizer, seed, finance, and energy sectors of agribusiness; automotive aftermarket companies in the U.S. and India, several leading healthcare networks and pharmaceutical companies, and U.S. food and beverage companies.
Adayana has its corporate office in Indianapolis and maintains offices at the headquarters locations of its predecessor companies, as well as several other locations throughout the U.S. The company also has offices with partner companies in Athens, Greece, and São Paulo, Brazil.
Adayana has ranked among Inc. Magazine’s “Inc 500” fastest growing private companies for the past two years and in the Top 20 training outsourcing companies by Training Outsourcing, Inc.
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Contact: tgahm
adayana [dot] com (Thomas Gahm), 763-772-8581
