HumanConcepts Expands Global Management Team, Appoints HCM Industry Veteran Nick Kemp as EMEA General Manager…from HumanConcepts

September 9, 2011

 

Brings 25+ Years Executive Management Experience in Leadership Roles for McKinsey & Company, SAP, Oracle

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HumanConcepts, developer of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, has announced the appointment of Human Capital Management (HCM) industry veteran Nick Kemp as EMEA General Manager, leading all sales, marketing, finance, customer success and partner marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Working out of HumanConcepts’ UK-based EMEA headquarters, Kemp will report directly to HumanConcepts President Luis Rivera.

“Nick is a key addition to our executive team and an HCM heavy hitter,” said Rivera. “His track record as a results-driven managing director, deep e-business strategist and builder of high-performing direct and indirect sales teams speaks for itself. Nick’s leadership will allow us to accelerate our EMEA business, broaden our global reach and deepen our partnerships with leading industry players.”

Immediately prior to HumanConcepts, Kemp was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company (2008-2011), a global management consulting firm, and the SME EMEA general manager at SAP (2006-2008), where he helped build an entirely new organization to market the company’s SaaS ERP solutions—including go-to market strategies, marketplace branding, lead generation, and sales cycle processes.

“With his impressive credits rolling out SaaS solutions across EMEA,” Rivera said, “I expect Nick to supercharge our own marketing and sales efforts for HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, our new SaaS platform for managing organizational change, and to leverage the rapid growth opportunities in the region.”

“I’m thrilled to be joining HumanConcepts,” said Kemp. “HumanConcepts is recognized around the world as the leading provider of high-value organizational planning solutions that help enterprises visualize, plan, model and transition their workforces to an optimal state. The industry is in a dynamic phase of growth and innovation right now—especially in EMEA, where continual workforce reorganizations and transitions are becoming the norm.”

For more information on HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 

 

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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HumanConcepts Announces OrgPlus Premium…from HumanConcepts

July 30, 2009

 

A First-in-Class Solution for Planning, Measuring and Implementing Workforce Change 

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HumanConcepts, the leading provider of workforce decision support solutions, today launched OrgPlus Premium, a new software upgrade that manages all human resource activities around workforce change – from planning through documentation and reporting. OrgPlus enables executives and HR professionals to automatically create org charts to view, analyze and model workforce information. Now OrgPlus Premium adds the ability to track all changes made during a workforce planning activity, measure their impact, and easily update them in the HR system of record.

OrgPlus Premium streamlines and manages multiple aspects of workforce planning and reorganization, giving HR and line managers the ability to:

·         Manually or automatically create the current organizational chart

·         Modify the organizational chart and create scenarios to illustrate proposed changes

·         Monitor the financial, headcount and other effects of planned changes

·         Create a boardroom quality PDF or PowerPoint presentation of the current and proposed organizations for comparison purposes

·         Create summary and detailed reports of all changes, including financial, headcount and organizational structure

·         Print or electronically distribute actual HR action forms or Personnel Action Notifications that can then be entered into the HR system to implement the changes

In addition, OrgPlus Premium allows users to automatically upload their charts to OrgPlus OnDemand on a scheduled basis. OrgPlus OnDemand is an online version of OrgPlus that enables creation and sharing of charts collaboratively over the Web.

“OrgPlus Premium connects the dots between conceptual workforce planning and the implementation of changes necessary to bring the new organization to fruition,” said Martin Sacks, HumanConcepts President and CEO. “Having detailed transaction listings of every change decided upon, as well as meaningful summaries of the modifications for the go-forward structure of the organization, are essential components of any organizational planning activity. OrgPlus Premium is a must-have solution for any company undergoing change.”

For more information on HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
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HumanConcepts Announces New Validated Integration for Oracle…from HumanConcepts

May 23, 2009

 

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HumanConcepts, the leading provider of workforce decision support software, today announced that integration between OrgPlus Enterprise 3.3 and the Oracle® E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System 12.0 has been validated through the Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners (AIAP) initiative. Partners with validated integrations are able to provide customers with standards-based product integrations, tested by Oracle. The integration between HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus and the Oracle E-Business Suite enhances Oracle customers’ ability to visualize workforce data, communicate accurate organizational information and manage workforce change.

With OrgPlus Enterprise, named Top HR Product of 2008 by Human Resource Executive® magazine, customers will be able to extend the value of the rich workforce insight available from the Oracle E-Business Suite. Integrated with the Oracle E-Business Suite, OrgPlus inherits Oracle security which ensures that the user has appropriate access rights to HR data. “We use the combined solution to help significantly reduce workload and clarify organizational resources and structure to optimize our business; this solution gives us superior insight into critical information that drives our decision-making and enables us to maintain advantage in the highly-competitive, ever-changing global Medical Device market,” said Stuart Beesley, CIO, Smiths Medical.

The OrgPlus visual interface provides a secure, intuitive way for executives, human resources and line of business managers to access and act on workforce information in order to:

  • Streamline and manage departmental reorganizations or large-scale mergers and acquisitions by creating what-if scenarios of the proposed organization
  • Develop succession plans for key executives
  • Validate accuracy of workforce data (i.e. reporting relationships)

Oracle has recently included the combined offering in Oracle’s global application sales demonstration environment. “With this validated integration, HumanConcepts has demonstrated their commitment to Oracle E-Business Suite HCM customers,” commented Anand Subbaraman, Director Product Strategy Applications, Oracle. “We expect to continue working closely with HumanConcepts, by showing the combined offering in our sales demonstrations and preparing joint whitepapers, to ensure that our mutual customers are aware of our tightly integrated solutions for organizational charting, modeling, and visualization.”

OrgPlus integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System is designed for customers to quickly take advantage of the additional capabilities from HumanConcepts and includes:

  • Built-in Oracle E-Business Suite connectivity that simplifies extraction of key HR data from Oracle
  • Pre-defined chart views that provide visualization of HR data and metrics such as headcount analysis, performance indicators and span of control
  • Single sign on from the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Portal or Oracle WebCenter to enable secure access
  • Standard Oracle Portal integration packages for the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11 and Release 12 containing hyperlinks to context specific views.

“We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to work with Oracle and its customers,” said Martin Sacks, CEO, HumanConcepts. “OrgPlus adds value throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System by bringing the rich Oracle data to life in a visual, hierarchical framework. The combined solution enables managers to not only have a clearer understanding of current workforce dynamics, but make fact-based decisions when planning for the future.”

For more information about HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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OrgPlus Receives Integration Validation with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0…from HumanConcepts

January 22, 2009

 

HumanConcepts recently announced that its OrgPlus Enterprise solution has received integration validation with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0. Through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative, OrgPlus Enterprise completed rigorous testing demonstrating integration and use of best practices and Oracle standards with PeopleSoft Enterprise.

 

OrgPlus Enterprise, named Top HR Product of 2008 by Human Resource Executive® magazine, helps PeopleSoft users reduce the time and money they spend managing and distributing accurate human resources information across the enterprise. With OrgPlus Enterprise, PeopleSoft users can access critical employee information on-demand to make more informed business decisions and proactively manage organizational change.

 

Joint customers, such as Quintiles and British Telecom, augment their PeopleSoft investment with OrgPlus Enterprise to quickly make workforce planning decisions and meet financial targets in response to economic and market shifts. The solution enables managers and HR professionals to easily access and share workforce information and metrics. In addition, these collaborative planning capabilities facilitate workforce restructuring activities via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

 

For more information on HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
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HumanConcepts Acquires Workforce Separation Software From Taleo…from HumanConcepts

December 4, 2008

 

OrgPlus(R) and Transition Manager(TM) Offer Comprehensive Solution for Managing Corporate Reorganizations

 

HumanConcepts, the developer of OrgPlus, today announced that it had concluded an agreement to acquire Optimize, software used to manage workforce separations, from Taleo Corporation.

 

Optimize, which will be renamed ‘Transition Manager’, will be offered along with OrgPlus as a complete solution for managing corporate or departmental reorganizations or downsizing events. HumanConcepts will continue to develop Transition Manager to meet evolving customer requirements.

 

OrgPlus is used by thousands of large organizations to plan and budget for future workforce scenarios, including reorganizations and corporate mergers. Customers can now implement approved reorganization plans using Transition Manager to process all reductions in force, using an organization’s specific business rules, as well as best practices, to ensure that any layoffs are in accordance with all prevailing laws, union agreements and company policies. Transition Manager also takes into account performance, seniority, tenure, special skills and other complex factors that influence reduction and key employee retention decisions.

 

Using OrgPlus, customers are able to collaboratively create organizational scenarios to match business goals and constraints. Transition Manager then allows such plans to be processed in a manner that ensures consistency, transparency and compliance to assure and expedite the reorganization process. Transition Manager can help managers to make decisions quickly, to save significant costs in off-boarding, and to ensure standardized processes are followed company-wide.

 

“Transition Manager is a timely solution that many organizations should be considering right now to help with the reorganization process,” said Rick Fletcher, President, HRchitect, a leading talent management systems consulting firm. “Every organization is considering what their organization chart needs to look like to weather the current economic downturn, and many organizations are in the position where they have to reduce their workforces to match market realities.”

 

Transition Manager’s key features include:

– Deployment of multi-event separations over time

– Standardized processes to identify and retain key talent

– Automatic generation of customized separation packages for each employee (based on parameters such as location, employee type, years of service, etc.)

– Automated voluntary separation process allows companies to easily identify an initial round of candidates

– Self service portal reduces administrations costs and allows employees to select the package most appropriate for their situation

– Dashboards and reports ensure that separation goals are met and that there are no unintended consequences (e.g. balancing gender and/or ethnicity ratios)

 

To learn more about Transition Manager, please register at www.orgplus.com/webinar for a complimentary webinar on December 16, 2008, at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST.

 

Transition Manager is available directly from HumanConcepts at www.orgplus.com or by calling 1-888-821-1261 or 1-415-332-3030 (outside the US).

 

For more information about HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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