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Who's planning to take your job?

It is always difficult to think that some else is capable of doing your job. Of course, it is even more challenging to think that someone–anyone–can do it better than you. However, that is exactly what you should be thinking about. I would go so far as to say; you...

Tags: Succession Planning, Job, Category, Position, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Wayne L. Anderson

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Heads in the sand when it comes to the coming "brain drain"

Not long ago, I blogged about the loss of institutional knowledge as a result of the first wave of the baby boom generation beginning to retire, and the need to begin some sort of knowledge retention program. I was sitting in a meeting the other day when CIOs from around...

Tags: succession planning, Knowledge Retention, General, crisis

Blog posts 2007-04-01

Ensuring Leadership Readiness: The Impact of Effective Workforce & Succession Planning - Leveraging Web-Based Human Capital Management Systems to Plan for the Future and Manage the Talent Pool Today

Whether you are responsible for Human Resources HR at a corporation or staffing a government agency or non-profit, you are faced with the imminent need to identify, assess and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership at all levels in an organization. This pending global "aging" crisis has heightened the...

Tags: Succession Planning, Talent, Web, Softscape Inc., Human Capital Management, Human Capital, Workforce, Leadership, Management

White papers 2005-09-01

A four-step plan to succession planning

By Jack Heine and Michael GerrardAn IT manager’s succession plans need not be overly complex, but they should include certain key items.Here is a four-step approach that will enable the creation of a succession plan that will benefit senior managers, subordinates, and the IS organization as a whole.First, what you...

Tags: Gartner  , succession plan, succession planning

Technical articles 2003-09-26

Additional Resources

Choosing tech's heirs with care

Succession planning for tech companiesAt some point, nearly every tech outfit must consider what to do when the person who personifies the company either can't or doesn't want to be the CEO anymore. For many cutting-edge tech companies, CEO succession planning has been a meticulous process that's downright old school....

Tags: Sonja Thompson, Level 5 Leadership

Discussion threads 2006-09-19

Van Houtum Papier BV: Sustainable Development With Succession CSE 1000

Founded by the Van Houtum brothers in 1935, Van Houtum Papier has two production plants located three kilometres apart in the town of Swalmen, the Netherlands. Van Houtum quickly realised that it needed to install a state-of-the-art communications system to tie both locations together, in order to keep production lines...

Tags: Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., Location, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies

Fujara (zip)

Fujara is a comprehensive human resource management solution. It offers a cost-effective solution for managing and integrating time-off accruals, compensation, 1-9 Documents, stock options, succession planning, bonus targeting, employee photos, and performance evaluations. Version 2.0.0.1 includes new sample data, and enhancements to data entry.

Tags: HRM, Fujara, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-04-23

Talent Management: The New Silver Bullet? - What the Right Person in the Right Role at the Right Time Can Do for You

In corner offices and boardrooms across the globe, a new weapon is reemerging in the executive arsenal with powerful implications for driving and even predicting business success: Talent Management. Variously called human capital management, employee relationship management and workforce management, among others, talent management is not a new concept, but...

Tags: Talent, SumTotal Systems, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Capital, Human Resources

White papers 2006-06-21

Peace College Turns to the Company That "Knows Voice"

As enrollment at Peace College continues to rise, the college was facing increasingly prohibitive costs from their Centrex system. The administration was looking for a premises-based solution that would leverage its existing infrastructure investment, hold down operating costs, place management in the hands of its own IT staff, and help...

Tags: College, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, Peace College, Roi/Tco, Workforce Management, Telecommunications, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Case studies

Human Resources

Created by industry veterans, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources combines advanced technology with commonsense business savvy. With HRMS, you can become the strategic leader in your organization while you realize a substantial return on your investment. Being strategic includes proactive HR management. From hiring to succession planning, Human Resources streamlines...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp.

White papers 2005-05-18

Seven species of mentors

When you have a discussion about management, leadership, succession planning, or career planning, someone usually brings up mentoring. Usually at this point people nod their heads and automatically think that they understand what a mentor is. However, the idea of a mentor probably conjures up different images for different people....

Tags: Mentor, Ramon Padilla

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Reaping the Benefits of Vastly Improved Communications

Fold Housing Association, based in Northern Ireland, builds and manages community housing and administers care services. The aging technology was costing Fold customer goodwill, untold numbers of missed opportunities and employee productivity. Fold chose BT to deliver a Nortel Networks IP telephony solution based on the Succession 1000 - a...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Benefits, VOIP, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Networking

Case studies

Instant HR Software (exe)

iHR provides a full-featured, affordable HRIS that empowers HR professionals and supervisors to manage critical employee information. iHR manages leave, FMLA, timecards, benefits, compensation, education, certification, licensing, equipment, performance reviews, seniority anniversaries, succession planning, EEO reports, and more. This HRIS automatically e-mails reminders for expiring licensing and certifications, and, with...

Tags: Human Resources, Certification, iHR, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2006-11-23

Agenda Planning (msi)

Agenda Planning is a planning software. With Agenda Planning, you can manage the tasks and the vacation of your salaries, your contacts and your customers through the various sights suggested: day, weekly, monthly and annual. These sights are entirely skeletal (colors, text) Agenda Planning functions in network, on bases Access...

Tags: Sight, Agenda Planning, Databases, Benefits, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Office Suites

Software downloads 2005-07-08

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning should follow a common sense approach. This paper explains a method of planning that the author has seen work successfully and what is required to help to succeed. One may know a different way of building his or her plan, but this technique does work. The author explains...

Tags: Author, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management

White papers

Global Planning Survey: Operations and Strategy - Who Wins?

Cartesis' Global Planning Survey was commissioned to explore planning processes across companies of varying sizes and locations. Based on a series of interviews with planning decision makers, it is designed to reveal the trends in opinions towards planning objectives, expectations and results. The results of the survey highlight a gap...

Tags: Strategy, Result, Cartesis, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2006-02-14

VoIP WLAN - Capacity planning of voice networks + traffic planning

Hi,I'm learning about the topic of Capacity planning of voice networks & traffic planning (home applications & network demands) and hence I’m looking so some good, easy to understand information on the topic and even better if any one can give me an overview of what the topic is really...

Tags: Wireless LANs, LANs, Telephony, nightwolfzor, Capacity Planning, network, voice network, WLAN, VoIP

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Oracle Advance Planning: Forecast to Plan

This webcast gives an overview of Oracle's Advanced Planning product family and its key benefits such as how it enables demand-driven planning, collaboration, visibility and drives execution.

Tags: Oracle Corp., Groupware, Benefits, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts

Next Generation Supply Chain Strategic Planning Technology and Applications

What is supply chain strategic planning? Its not execution, and its not re-engineering. It is strategic decision-making and business-planning by forward-thinking companies. Operational supply chain strategy remains the weak link in the market, mainly due to the degree of difficulty involved in using sophisticated models and complicated algorithms. In the...

Tags: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

White papers 2000-04-15

Learn the importance of properly planning your next IT project

This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the importance of planning and how to create a reliable plan. Estimating and planning are critical, yet are difficult and error prone.This sample chapter, taken from Agile Estimating and Planning, discusses the purpose of planning, as well...

Tags: Information Technology, Prentice Hall Inc., Strategy, Management

Book chapters 2006-04-28