Succession planning technology includes capabilities to identify and document potential successors for critical roles, talent assessment, 9-box grids and talent/successor pools. While succession planning is a top CHRO priority and many organizations plan to expand succession planning beyond the top levels of the organization, technology capabilities are limited in how they support this initiative. It is the means of preserving a company's future and its associated stakeholders. Managers, Senior Management, HR professionals and Talent Acquisition teams use this technology to map out career paths, identifying skills gaps, and prepare employees for future roles to ensure a smooth transition and continuity in key positions. It includes features like talent visualization, role identification, and analytics to assess and track the readiness of potential successors.
Talent analytics tool helps in tracking the performance of HR processes and program investments in conjunction with business performance. Talent analytics tool provides HR professionals and business leaders with a more data-driven approach to managing talent and making informed data based decisions about workforce planning, talent acquisition, development, attrition, and retention. By leveraging data and advanced analytics techniques, organizations can gain a deeper understanding of their people metrics and identify areas for improvement, leading to increased efficiency, productivity, and overall business performance. Talent analytics tool offers data visualization in various forms of data representation for better insights and understanding. Advanced analytics help to predict future outcomes based on historical data and workforce planning helps organizations monitor the workforce and plan for future workforce needs through forecasting and scenario planning. Predominant users include HR managers, recruitment professionals, hiring managers, and Human Resource professionals.
Gartner defines voice of the employee (VoE) solutions as those that collect and analyze employee opinions, perceptions and feelings. They use surveys, feedback tools and other data sources to gather worker sentiment and infer preferences, opinions, and well-being. They deliver insights with actionable guidance to help improve employee engagement, experience, productivity and performance. These solutions are delivered via cloud-based technologies, often augmented by managed services.