SumTotal Sytems White Papers

7 Key Steps to Starting Effective Career and Succession Planning � A Vaccination Plan for the Talent Shortage Crisis

2008-04-15 03:47:07

Know the 7 key steps to start an effective career and succession planning in your organization and overcome talent shortage threats. This white paper will discuss factors causing talent pools to dry up, recent survey results that show how people are addressing talent shortages and retention, and succession planning practices that can help your organization overcome talent shortage threats
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10 Things You Cannot Do Without an Employee Performance Management System

2008-01-11 00:50:33

Discover how an Employee Performance Management (EPM) system can help you align organizational goals with employee objectives, provide access to performance information, make better employee-related decisions, improve retention, and much more.
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Calculating the ROI of an Employee Performance Management System

2008-01-11 00:40:10

You already understand that an employee performance management system can help your organization cut costs or improve profits, now, here's your secret weapon for getting others on your side. Learn how to clearly and realistically demonstrate expected Return on Investment (ROI) from reducing turnover, improving compensation alignment, saving time, and more�with numbers and real-life case studies to back you up.
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10 Steps in Presenting an Effective Business Case for a Learning Management System

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Following these 10 steps will help you address immediate problems, build alliances throughout the organization, and make a Learning Management System business case. These best-practices come directly from SumTotal customers who have faced similar challenges.
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Rising to C-Level: Can HR Deliver What the CEO Wants?

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What exactly are C-level executives looking for from a reinvented, strategic HR department? What can you do to rise to C-level expectations? Find out what the research indicates forward-looking HR departments need to do.
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10 Things You Can�t Afford to Overlook when Selecting a Learning Management System (LMS)

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Here are 10 pieces of LMS functionality that will help your organization manage learning better, and help you avoid those unexpected �gotchas� that inevitably add to additional cost and frustration down the line.
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Calculating the ROI of your Learning Management System: How ResultsOnDemand can change your organization�s equation

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In this whitepaper you will see:
1. The best way to assess how an LMS can positively affect your business by focusing on improving one process.
2. How to calculate an LMS�s real cost of ownership.

This can be assessed in either a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution or a traditional software purchase model.
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in learning and talent management software - The Pros and Cons

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SaaS is defined as model of delivery where the software company provides hosting, maintenance, daily technical operation, and support for the software provided to their client. This whitepaper outlines the specific benefits of software-as-a-service and things to look out for before fully adopting the approach.
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Trends in Training Your Extended Enterprise - Partners and Customers

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SumTotal Systems recently sent a survey to 10,000 directors of training to find out how companies are extending a learning management system (LMS) outside of their corporate walls � to the �extended enterprise� of partners and customers. Know more...
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Getting started on your Employee Performance Management initiative: Five questions every HR pro should answer

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SumTotal recently surveyed a global sample of more than 20,000 HR professionals on these five crucial aspects of EPM, and found a common dilemma � tremendous need for online employee performance management tools, thwarted by a lack of resources.
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Selecting the right Employee Performance Management (EPM) system

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Analysts caution that not all EPM software investments prove successful. Real return on investment (ROI) follows when your best and poorest performers can be accurately differentiated and given the appropriate developmental opportunities and training, when you can align employee performance goals with company strategy, and when you can use performance data to strategically plan talent resources for the future. For those reasons, a performance management system must meet some key criteria to measurably improve your organization's performance.
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Scorecards and Employee Performance Management: Executing Strategy From the Top Desk to Every Desktop

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Given that by far the largest single budget item for most businesses is directly related to employees, and that employees are the key to business success, you�d expect businesses to spare no expense in the design and implementation of Employee Performance Management systems...
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10 Steps to Justifying a Learning Management System for Your Partner and Supplier Training

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How can organizations develop their stakeholders to the same level of competency and product knowledge as their internal employees? And how can organizations instill common messaging, brand identity, and quality practices across this extended enterprise?
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The Value of a Learning Management Compliance Solution

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One of the biggest challenges that organizations face today is reducing costs from fines and lawsuits. This whitepaper explains how a Learning Management Compliance Solution can help manage an organization�s compliance requirements.
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Value of a Performance Management System

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One of the biggest challenges that organizations face in developing their personnel for maximum business gains is aligning development efforts with the organization�s goals. In a recent survey by Bersin & Associates, 60% of training managers indicated that their biggest challenge was to be sure their efforts were aligned with the company�s business strategy...
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The 10 Key Steps in Developing an Enterprise-Wide ComplianceTraining Strategy

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Organizations often uncover redundant processes that manage separate compliance needs. These could be leveraged with better planning. So how can your organization reduce the costs and compliance risks of mandatory training?
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The Emergence of Talent Management

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Instead of talent management, other terms that have been loosely used to describe the entire process are �human capital management,� �employee relationship management,� or �workforce management.� Articles, research reports, and white papers have recently been written about this topic. Investors are (again) investing in the concept. And mergers and acquisitions are being contemplated to capitalize on this vision. And it�s an idea that didn�t even originate in this decade. Why the renewed interest?
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Talent Management: The New Silver Bullet?

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In most companies functions such as recruitment and succession planning, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, compensation and other HR or training functions have often been sequestered in departmental silos. So why has talent management suddenly recaptured the imagination and attention of the CXO?
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The Ten Steps in Developing an Effective Performance Management Strategy

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How do you make your performance management program a source of competitive advantage? SumTotal provides ten steps that we have discovered as being effective in developing an effective performance management strategy.

SumTotal offers a feature-rich performance management and learning solution that integrates best-of-breed solutions. Our customers are using this solution to deepen their talent pool inside and external to the company, ensure a succession plan, focus on competency gaps and more. And they are showing real business impact in terms of money saved and revenue generated. We want to share what�s making them effective.
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SumTotal Enterprise Suite - Product Architecture

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An architecturally strong foundation is required to achieve the return on investment that software buyers expect. The SumTotal Enterprise Suite capitalizes on three dimensions of architecture (functional, operational, and software) to provide our customers with innovative and pacesetting solutions.
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