The Aquire Succession Module allows organizations to easily build and maintain succession plans. It provides a centralized and collaborative system to assess retention risk, readiness, bench strength, and talent gaps. Key features include 9-box matrices to evaluate performance vs potential, dashboard views, and the ability to model successor scenarios. The module integrates seamlessly with OrgPublisher and provides measurable benefits like collaborative planning, centralized data storage, enforcement of business rules, and identification of talent gaps.

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Ensure the future leadership of your organization
Reduce the time & resources required to build and maintain succession plans
The optional, Web-based Aquire Succession Module, available as a power ful addition to enhance
OrgPublisher 9, is an easy-to-use visual tool that will enable your organization to easily and collaboratively
assess and improve retention risk, readiness, bench strength, employee potential, successor ratings,
position requirements, talent gaps, adverse impact and other key succession challenges.
Providing simple and easy steps to collaboratively build, maintain and distribute visually oriented
succession plans, the Succession Module adds robust features, enhanced security, and collaboration
beyond the capabilities of OrgPublisher 9 Premier. These capabilities include establishing targets with
dashboard view; on-the-fly updating of information as users drag-and-drop through 9-box matrices;
enhanced employee search and filter view; the ability to enforce business rules (for example, cap
potential pay increases); secure, collaborative planning; enhanced talent analytics and much more.
The Succession Module is ideal for organizations seeking
a centralized, simple-to-use system of record to capture,
analyze and track talent management and succession data.
It implements quickly, is easy to learn, and provides a secure
environment for making faster, more informed decisions. You get:
9-box matrices that update on the fly – Evaluate your organizations’
leadership and talent pool by viewing employee per formance vs.
potential data to track high-potential employees and help those who need it
9-Box Analysis Side-by-side profile views – Easily compare employee information to
Quickly view and adjust employee
assess key similarities and differences
groups in a 9-Box Matrix (per formance
vs. potential). Dashboard view for establishing succession plan goals and evaluating
any gaps
A succession planning modeler – Visually drag-and-drop successors to
analyze scenarios and identify gaps
Centralized, collaborative data access
Enhanced security
Powerful search features and summaries to simplify analysis
Seamless integration with OrgPublisher
The ability to easily export plans and associated data to Adobe® PDF®,
Microsoft® PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.

2. Measurable business benefits:
Offering collaborative succession plan creation and maintenance functionality,
the OrgPublisher Succession module will enable your organization to:
Collaboratively Plan – Multiple users can easily collaborate on succession
initiatives and work on the same plan
Enable simple and secure group collaboration for faster, better decisions
Capture and store plans and changes centrally – Use this module as the Quickly view talent metrics including bench
system of record or as a repository for further processing strength & risk assessments using OrgPublisher's
automated analytics.
Eliminate the need to manually compile multiple succession plans into a
single spreadsheet or document
Refresh operational data within the plan – As plans are being developed, the day-to-day changes of terminations,
promotions, changes in performance reviews, etc. can be refreshed within the plan
Enforce Business Rules – Your company can establish rules which need to be followed while executing a plan, so user
actions are properly restricted, or attention can be called to a threshold or action
Easily leverage best practice approach with more than 80 predefined succession planning data fields to choose from
Identify bench strength and bench strength gaps and view summaries of positions in need of successors
Forecast gaps based on flight risk, aging workforce
Get quick, simple access to employee and performance data such as ranking, readiness, high potentials, years of
service, flight risk, etc.
Identify the best matches between position requirements and employee metrics and qualifications
Assess adverse impact for succession plans
Automate the creation of analytics for tracking overall planning initiative performance and efficiency
Extend the solution – the extensible architecture allows workflow or further customization as workflow can be added to the
scope of work to allow changes in data to execute other processes or to route information to someone for approval, etc.
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