SumTotal Systems White Papers

Best Practices for Improving Compensation Management

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 PST

Central to employee motivation is the compensation they receive.

This free whitepaper by Ventana Research outlines best practices for integrating Compensation Management with other Talent Management processes to improve acquisition and retention.

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ROI of Talent Management: Key Challenges & Value Points

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:00 PST

Because organizations that have a strong commitment to talent development and employee engagement consistently out-perform those that do not, the implementation of a best-in-class and end-to-end talent management program is a primary concern for many leading organizations.

This whitepaper describes the immediate and significant value of implementing a fully technology-enabled, automated and integrated talent management solution.

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Drive Better Business Performance with Workforce Scheduling

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper examines workforce scheduling, the opportunities it presents, and the enterprise application solutions available to manage and support workforce scheduling initiatives.
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Top 5 Tips to Optimize Workforce Management for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:00 PST

This field guide will take you through five steps you can take that will help you to get the most out of your investment in workforce management software.
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Expense Management Automation: Automating Your Travel and Entertainment Expense Reimbursements

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper will help you understand how implementing an Expense Management Automation (EMA) solution can provide a significant ROI through reducing the costs of processing expense reports, achieving greater controls over your travel and entertainment expenses and other business expenses and improving employee productivity and satisfaction.
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Learning in the Cloud: An Executive's Guide to Limitless Learning

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:00:00 PST

This Executive Guide outlines how to leverage cloud learning management technology to reduce both the total cost of your learning solutions and the quality of your end-user learning experience.

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Building a Business Case for Mobile Learning

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:00 PST

Mobile learning, applied to the right problem, in the right way, can deliver enormous efficiency and efficacy gains to an organization. But how do you justify the initial investment, and how do you ensure that learning is aligned with business goals? This field guide will explore critical steps to ensure that you get the most out of your mobile learning investment.
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Using Analytics to Achieve the Greatest Value for Workforce Initiatives

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:00 PST

The essence of effective analytics in any segment of an organization is the distillation of dizzying amounts of data into actionable information. HR divisions are turning to analytics as a key capability to proactively drive business strategy. This whitepaper describes how HR professionals can get a consistent analytical point of reference to make human capital decisions that impact business results.
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Field Guide: Five Tips to Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Learning Management

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:00 PST

Successful, smart use of learning management technologies and automation can make an organization more efficient, productive and ultimately more competitive and can incorporate next generation technologies to expand the reach and quality of your learning programs.�

This Field Guide offers 5 leading tips to make you successful, tips that are followed by hundreds of market-leading SumTotal customers.

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Definitive Guide to Strategic Human Capital Management

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper provides insight into:

The visibility and information needed to proactively manage your business and your talent
Keys to recruiting and hiring the best talent
Ways to nurture and optimize your existing talent, including best practices in assessing and developing employees
Mitigating risks and lost productivity due to employee absence
Benefits of developing a high-level view of the health of the company using HCM data and KPIs

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15 Million Users Succeed with SumTotal's Cloud Platform

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST

Ventana Research finds that more than a quarter of companies surveyed are adopting cloud computing in direct response to meeting the pressures of retaining talent and increasing employee satisfaction. Learn how 15 Million Users leverage SumTotal cloud to manage their HR processes.
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Reducing Labor Compliance Risks

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 PST

SMBs and Enterprise-level companies alike are faced with daily challenges in effectively coordinating and managing their workforces. This whitepaper describes the complexities of regulatory compliance and outlines how to use workforce management technology to avoid potential penalties to your organization.
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Retaining Talent with Compensation Management: Trends in Employee Compensation

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 PST

While offering learning and developmental opportunities is also a popular route to take in providing job satisfaction for employees, pay-for-performance plans are often the most appropriate incentives to increase the business productivity for even the highest performers in a company. This whitepaper explains why many companies are turning to formalized compensation plans to dictate the rules of adjustments, bonuses and incentivized pay.

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Absence Management: Time Is Money

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper outlines actionable, best practices for going beyond controlling the costs associated with absent employees, to obtaining measurable improvements in workforce schedules and facilitating compliance with government and internal regulations.

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Top Learning Trends for 2012

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 PST

This learning management whitepaper outlines the top 2012 trends in today's learning management space and why they're relevant.
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Expense Management Automation: Making the Right Choice

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:00:00 PST

This report provides details on the many benefits and choices for deploying an EMA solution at your organization.
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Mobile Workforce Management Strategies: The Future of Strategic Mobile Workforce & Expense Management

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:00:00 PST

The by-product of a changing economy, increasingly mobile and remote workforces are fueled by the proliferation of high-speed networks. This whitepaper outlines how to best manage a rapid transition to work environments that support a global, mobile and remote workforce, making the best of their skills and maintaining their identification with the organization, its culture and goals.
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Workforce & Expense Management Supports Lean Manufacturing Initiatives

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:00:00 PST

Lean manufacturing initiatives and strategies can also be effectively applied toward a business's largest controllable expense - its workforce.
This paper examines:

LEAN manufacturing workforce management initiatives
the opportunities and benefits they provide
the enterprise applications available to manage and support them

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The Seven Cs of Social Learning: How Social Learning Technologies Can Meet Today's Business Challenges

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:00:00 PST

Social learning can be classified as: "Any type of learning where a person learns vicariously through the observations of, or interactions with, others." Useful social technologies enable providers and users to navigate what is now called the "Seven Cs" - Content, Consumption, Contribution, Conversation, Collaboration, Connections, and Control while remaining meaningful to the workflow of the business.

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SumTotal Learning Maestro - Powerful Simplicity

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:00:00 PST

As an integrated suite of Web-based tools, Learning Maestro helps organizations assess, deliver and measure enterprise learning and development:

Assess organizational and individual competencies, deficiencies and training needs using a variety of powerful tools, including online testing and survey instruments, talent development and performance management tools.
Deliver required training initiatives to address identified performance and learning needs using the most appropriate method (e-learning, classroom, self-study webcast, mentoring, blended, etc.)...
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4 Ways Sales & Marketing Should Use Training to Drive Revenue

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PST

This executive report presents findings from SumTotal's Training and Information Sharing survey of Sales and Marketing professionals.
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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Mobile Learning

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PST

Mobile Learning solutions are significantly expanding how organizations train their employees, contractors, customers, and partners by allowing users to access content from anywhere, anytime more easily. Whether providing certification-based or informal training, organizations that invest in this new and powerful technology can expect to achieve numerous benefits. This free mobile learning field guide will explore five critical steps to ensure that you get the most out of your mobile learning investments.

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The Value of a Learning Management Compliance Solution

Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

This paper explains how a learning management compliance solution can help manage an organization's compliance requirements.
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Preparing HR Leaders For A New Era of Regulation and Compliance: Executive Compensation and A Renewed Pay-For-Performance Mandate

Tue, 24 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper describes the sweeping new regulatory framework that's emerging as a result of the global financial crisis, affecting many aspects of corporate operations, including HR.
You'll gain a better understanding of:

the new regulations
how they will impact HR divisions and broader business
what organizational and technological changes will need to occur to become compliant

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10 Steps in Presenting an Effective Business Case for a Learning Management System

Tue, 24 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper takes you step-by-step through the process of addressing your immediate problems, building alliances throughout your organization, and making a successful business case for an LMS, including:

Analyzing your current processes and identifying your needs
Mapping out the various processes and training requirements
Calculating the financial impact of training
Making the case and managing the project

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Best Practices for Rapid Content Development

Thu, 12 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

Through the use of the SIMPLE acronym, this whitepaper offers an introduction to using templates for rapid content development. It also includes best practices and tips for working with subject matter experts (SMEs).
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When Workforce Goals Meet Corporate Strategy: Six Tips for Getting the Greatest Value from Alignment

Thu, 12 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

In this whitepaper, you'll find six critical tips for achieving and maintaining alignment between your employees and your business goals.
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10 Things HR Can Do to Help Align an Organization's Goals

Wed, 11 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper includes ten steps that can save you time and expense as you work to drive better organizational alignment.
You'll learn:

the ten most important things to consider before you embark on organizational alignment project
how to position HR in the process-and what role HR professionals should play
best practices for avoiding common pitfalls, such as planning a multi-tiered rollout to help goals work their way down an organization

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10 Things a Performance Management System Can Do for You

Wed, 11 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

Wondering why performance management matters? In this whitepaper, you'll learn:

how an employee performance management system helps you align organizational goals with employee objectives
why EPM systems provide more reliable, straightforward access to performance information
ways to leverage an EPM to make better employee-related decisions and improve retention
how to beat the "annual because it's manual" mantra for improved employee development
why organizations of all sizes are suddenly rushing to automate their EPM ...
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CEO's Guide to Top Performer Retention

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

84% of HR and business leaders believe that providing career advancement opportunities to top performing employees is the most impactful way to retain them. Yet only 43% of organizations have put in place a systematic process for employee development.

Download your free whitepaper and get three key tips for leveraging proven talent management principles, practices, and technologies to retain your top performers.

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Extended Enterprise Executive Brief: Reaching External Audiences to Grow Your Business

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:00:00 PST

Leading organizations are leveraging their extended enterprise to drive growth and improve top and bottom line business with SumTotal's Extended Enterprise solution. See how you can leverage your network to improve results, including:

Boost agility in rapidly changing market conditions
Increase customer acquisition and retention
Protect, differentiate, and promote your brand image
Improve business performance and productivity

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Five Ways to Improve Learning with Performance Management

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:00:00 PST

This paper describes five ways that performance management can improve training initiatives:

Producing development plans that work
Improving leadership development programs
Making learning opportunities more visible
Aligning the training department to organizational needs
Making learning and human resources more strategic

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Executive Guide: Improving Business Performance through Sales Teams, Partners, and Customers

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:00:00 PST

Engaging Your Extended Enterprise

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the Extended Enterprise platform brings about the efficient delivery of knowledge to customers, partners, suppliers, channel and distribution networks, independent agents, and others for the strategic purpose of transforming business performance.

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Building a Business Case: E-Learning for External Audiences

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper:

looks at e-learning from a business manager's perspective
describes how e-Learning can improve your bottom line
describes how e-Learning can build a compelling business case reaching out to your external audiences including customers, partners, channel or distributor networks, independent agents, suppliers, franchises/franchisees, association members, contractors or volunteers

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The CEO's Guide to Succession Planning: Managing Risk & Ensuring Business Continuity

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:00:00 PST

This CEO Guide:

Explains five key tips for jump starting your succession planning efforts to better manage risk and ensure business continuity
Provides the foundation to further understanding the impact that a strong succession strategy can have on your organization

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The Extended Enterprise in Action: Promoting Brand Image, Increasing Customer Retention, Boosting Agility & Improving Business Performance

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:00:00 PST

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the Extended Enterprise platform can help specific verticals to promote and sell their products to external audiences. In particular, it investigates the value of the Extended Enterprise solution in:

Financial Services
Insurance
Government
Retail
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Associations

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Succession Planning: Rise of the Talent Ecosystem

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:00:00 PST

Once reserved for the upper echelons of senior management, and often viewed - erroneously so - as replacement planning to mitigate risk, today's succession planning is being redefined.

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Improving Employee Engagement to Drive Business Performance

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:00:00 PST

Research shows that an engaged workforce impacts business performance, and ultimately, shareholder value. Companies with more engaged employees have:

better financial performance
higher customer satisfaction
higher employee retention
more productive employees

Companies with higher percentages of engaged employees perform better than their industry peers. Download the whitepaper to find out how.

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Performance-Driven Learning: Putting the Horse Before the Cart to Lead Organizational Growth

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:00:00 PST

This whitepaper will explore how to:

successfully manage employee development to impact the organization's bottom line
gain the highest return on learning and development investments
Link learning initiatives with key performance indicators
Align human capital resources with organizational objectives

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The Definitive Guide To Talent Mobility

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:00:00 PST

This complimentary whitepaper will explore:

The importance of a talent mobility strategy
Considerations for approaching and deploying the strategy
The significant business benefits that a talent mobility strategy affords

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Leveraging Integrated Human Capital Processes to Optimize Organizational Success

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

There is a new wave of thinking about what it means to be strategic, and savvy human resources (HR) executives are leading forward-thinking organizations in integrating human capital management (HCM) to optimize organizational success.

Strategic goals can shift depending on the political climate, business demands, and the changing needs of an organization. However, being strategic means being able to make rapid and informed decisions and take the actions necessary that will enable the entire organization to be successful in the long run.

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Top Five HR Process Integrations That Drive Business Value

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

Integration is the new currency of HR. Empirical research reveals that improving HR process, technology, and data integration to eliminate silos and facilitate cross-functional reporting affords significant business benefits.

According to SumTotal's 2010 State of Global People Management worldwide survey of human resources (HR) leaders, organizations with fully integrated HR and talent processes, systems, and data outperform those organizations that have not integrated by 41% across twelve key HR and business operating metrics.

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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Performance Management

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

This field guide will explore:

Providing accessible and secure cross functional compliance reports and audit trails of all transactions and performance
Consistently measuring and communicating the impact of HR programs, especially to secure funding for strategic initiatives
Easily configuring a performance management system to suit your organization's unique needs

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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Learning Management

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

Learning management systems (LMS) manage all aspects of education by automating and managing the administration, management, delivery, and end user experience of blended learning programs. Organizations that have invested in these systems cite a number of significant benefits, including:

Automate and standardize learning and training practices, processes, and content
Reduce administration and delivery costs while providing faster delivery
Enable blending learning programs (online and instructor-led curricula, courses...
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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Succession Planning

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

Succession planning systems manage business risk and ensure leadership and critical role continuity across all levels of an organization. Organizations that have invested in these systems cite a number of significant benefits, including:

Standardize, automate, and optimize succession planning processes and practices across the organization
Provide senior management with global visibility into the talent pipeline and overall bench strength by leveraging dynamic talent pools and advanced analytics

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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Recruiting & Hiring

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

Recruiting and hiring systems broaden the scope of legacy applicant tracking systems (ATS) by streamlining the entire hiring lifecycle from talent needs assessment and requisition creation to candidate selection and onboarding. Organizations that have invested in these systems cite a number of significant benefits, including:

Enable full lifecycle recruiting and hiring , including workforce planning, talent needs assessments, sourcing management, candidate evaluation, offer and onboarding management, and reporting/analysis
Sta...
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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Compensation Management

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:00 PST

Compensation management systems automate and manage the planning, modelling, budgeting, analysis, and execution of enterprise-wide compensation plans. Organizations that have invested in these systems cite a number of significant benefits. This field guide will explore five critical steps to ensure that you get the most out of your compensation management investments.
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