Talent is critical to future growth. But with aging demographics, global competition for talent, and a growing skills gap, talent is becoming scarce. Who can lead a company into new markets? Who are the leaders of tomorrow? Are the right employees staying? Are the wrong employees leaving? Without the right talent, companies risk not only missing the opportunity to increase market share and revenues, but they have to spend even more to acquire new talent.

In a world where skilled workers are at a premium, it is essential for high-performing organisations to look within to identify critical skills and roles, actively develop promising employees, nurture their skills, and groom potential successors for key positions before they are vacated.

Organisations around the world have turned to software and services from SAP and SAP partners to help manage employee performance, develop succession and career plans, and offer training and learning experiences. And by bringing it all together with SAP, organisations have also gained the visibility needed to effectively drive performance, succession, and learning management strategies that increase individual and organisational performance while keeping costs down.

With SAP software and services, we can help you:

• Increase employee skill levels, create a global talent pool, and gain better insight into workforce capabilities and evolution
• Offer personalised learning that allows managers to monitor training activities and analyse effect on business performance while reducing training costs

HR Software to Identify, Develop, and Monitor Talent

Operational and human resources managers often lack accurate and timely information to make informed personnel decisions. Through the use of portals, dashboards and visualisation tools, organisations can aggregate and view employee data in one location – regardless of the system where the data resides. This can enable executives and managers to better monitor performance, distribute information to targeted audiences, and make better and faster decisions regarding performance management, succession planning, and learning initiatives.

By integrating performance management, succession planning, and enterprise learning processes, your company gains visibility into the talent supply chain – allowing you to focus on strategies and programs that support a high-performing organisation.

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Talent Management

Gain a talent management overview from R.J. Heckman, Ph.D., vice president and general manager of Personnel Decisions Int'l.

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Enterprise Learning

Discover the benefits of enterprise learning from Prof. Alfons Sauquet, vice dean of research and knowledge at ESADE Business School.

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Demo: SAP ERP HCM: Delivering Employee and Manager Self-Services

See how SAP ERP allows employees and managers to create and approve leave requests, empowering staff and boosting productivity and efficiency.

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*Study entitled All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Techniques and Strategies, by Kevin Martin, January 2008