A Successful Strategy

by Paula Santonocito

As companies attempt to meet business challenges with less staff, leveraging the skills and abilities of retained employees becomes critical.

Performance reviews, goal management, compensation, and succession planning are always important. But in today’s climate these areas arguably require greater focus because they may be tied to business decisions and outcomes of an urgent nature.

Technology can help facilitate these talent management processes, and solutions are available for companies of every size.

SuccessFactors, a leading provider of on-demand Software as a Service (Saas) technology, delivers performance/talent management solutions to more than 2,600 client organizations--including one customer with a staff of six people.

But it's not a one-size-fits-all approach. The company understands that organization size relates to requirements, and offers four levels of solutions, from small to mega.

Each suite of solutions includes a full range of tools--and each includes an element known as Employee Profile, which you'll want to explore.

SuccessFactors Employee Profile allows an organization to create a company network that uses tagging, social networking, and other social media tools to obtain insight into employees’ hidden talents. Using Employee Profile, a company can also create and foster corporate culture, and drive collaboration and engagement.

Yes, these are serious times that demand serious solutions, but it pays to remember that work has an important social component. By tapping into the social aspect of the work experience through technology, a company has an opportunity to better identify and utilize talent. Any fun that results, well, that's an added benefit.