Prior to 1997, management of learning at Bain was the responsibility of an administrative-staff training director, who reported to a primarily client-dedicated Bain vice president. In addition to managing the training function, the training director also oversaw other administrative areas, such as case-team support, the corporate library, and an experience-sharing database network. "In essence," Tierney notes, "training was a part-time initiative. We had a client partner with a 10 percent training allocation managing a staff person with a 25 percent training allocation. Even at the time we knew it wasn't the best way to manage. But considering our situation leading up to and flowing from our reorganization in the late 80s, it served us well, up to a point.