Single Source of Information and Tools for Managing People,
Positions, Hierarchies, and Goals Makes Unified Talent Management a
Reality
WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management
solutions, today announced new "core" capabilities in Authoria Talent
Management that unite all the talent functions in the company's
comprehensive solution. The same rich set of centralized information
is exposed to end users whether they are focused on recruiting,
performance management, compensation, succession planning, or other
people-related tasks. The result is a comprehensive view of talent
across the employee lifecycle, and improved ability for both business
managers and HR professionals to hire the best-fit candidates,
identify and develop high-potential employees, and retain and motivate
top performers.
The new capabilities include talent profiles; job profiles;
embedded competency libraries from Development Dimensions
International Inc. (DDI); direct import of reporting-relationship
information from ERP or payroll systems; ad hoc creation and
presentation of reports; and Authoria Rapid Assists. They are being
delivered on-demand, as part of quarterly updates to Authoria Talent
Management.
"As the largest eye-care company worldwide, with 14,000 employees,
Alcon recognizes the vital link between effective talent management
and overall business performance," said Kay Teague, Director of HR
Technology at Alcon, Inc. "When we approached talent-management
functions as silos, we realized we were missing opportunities by
segmenting key data about employees, candidates, and positions. The
core data has to be centrally maintained, and accessed by all
talent-management functions - we need 'one bucket for all systems to
drink from.' Authoria's core capabilities are the right foundation to
help us meet critical talent challenges such as attracting and
retaining top talent, and filling high-impact positions with
high-performing employees."
"Line-of-business managers - who are the frontline in the daily
'war for talent' - need technology solutions that are highly intuitive
and that give them a consistent grasp of all the strategic talent
functions," said Tod Loofbourrow, Authoria Chairman and CEO. "By
making all the information in a shared 'core' available through a
consistent, award-winning interface, Authoria is providing the
visibility that business managers and HR professionals need to finally
connect talent management with business results."
In a separate announcement issued today, Authoria and DDI have
expanded their partnership to incorporate DDI's market-leading
competency libraries and assessment models within Authoria Talent
Management. Now included as a core component of Authoria Talent
Management, the DDI competency libraries provide definitions of the
requirements for success in a given position, which are consistent
across recruiting, performance management, employee development, and
succession planning. More information is available at
www.authoria.com/about/press-releases/view/161.
The core capabilities of Authoria Talent Management provide
essential data and services to all of the strategic talent functions -
recruiting, performance management, succession planning, compensation,
and benefit/policy communications - and are delivered to end users
through a consistent user interface. New capabilities of this core
include:
-- Talent profiles - A single, unified view of all the relevant
information about an employee or a candidate, including
skills, work experience, competencies, performance history,
compensation, career aspirations, languages, location
preferences, and other critical data. Talent profiles give
line-of-business managers easy access to comprehensive
information required to drive the best decisions for their
teams. They also enable employees to contribute and update
information, making them more engaged and more responsible for
their own career development.
-- Job profiles - Managers and HR professionals can see all
information related to each job within the organization,
including up-to-date job descriptions, competencies required
for success, and the pipeline of candidates ready to move into
a job. Shared access to this information drives improved
"quality of hire," and ensures that requisitions comply with
company policies.
-- DDI competency libraries - Market-leading competency libraries
developed by DDI are provided as a standard feature of
Authoria Talent Management. DDI content is automatically
shared across the talent-management functions of creating jobs
or positions; evaluating candidates; conducting performance
appraisals; conducting 360 reviews of employees; and
identifying competency gaps in the organization. Easy access
to consistent competency data encourages business-manager
participation, which in turn improves the identification and
development of key talent.
-- Simplified import of hierarchy information - The "actionable
organization charts" in Authoria Talent Management can be
refreshed with up-to-date information on employees' reporting
relationships, through streamlined import from ERP or payroll
systems.
-- Ad hoc report creation - Business managers, as well as
recruiters and other HR professionals, can easily build views
of the data they need for dashboard access, and export those
views to business-intelligence tools, manager analytics,
Microsoft Excel, and other applications. For example, a
customized view showing the status of candidates for all open
requisitions, by location or within a job category, can easily
be created and then displayed on the manager's dashboard.
-- Authoria Rapid Assists - A library of 30-plus brief
instructional clips that are built into Authoria Talent
Management, providing guidance on how to perform common tasks
and advice on best practices. Delivered on-demand and
just-in-time, Rapid Assists enable managers and employees to
become productive more quickly, reduce training costs, and
smooth the introduction of new systems and processes.
The new capabilities complement existing "core" capabilities in
Authoria Talent Management, such as actionable organizational charts,
workforce analytics, and coaching-in-context. Together, they give
business managers and HR professionals alike a unified framework for
working with essential data about people, positions, hierarchies, and
organizational goals, and improve their ability to meet the toughest
cross-functional talent challenges.
About Authoria
Authoria(R) helps the world's most competitive employers achieve
superior business results, by optimizing the way they recruit,
develop, compensate, retain, and engage top talent. Designed for
business managers as well as HR professionals, the company's talent
management solutions enable more effective recruiting, performance
management, compensation management, and succession planning across an
organization. Authoria serves more than 300 large organizations and 4
million managers and employees with our on-demand Internet-based
solutions. Customer companies include Aetna, Boeing, and Reuters. For
more information, visit www.authoria.com.
Note to editors: Authoria and the Authoria logo are registered
trademarks, and Authoria Talent Management and Authoria Rapid Assists
are trademarks of Authoria, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. All other product names and references contained herein
remain the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of
their respective owners.
Authoria, Inc.
Michael Blaber, 781-530-2102
michael.blaber@authoria.com
or
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