US-based Success Associates has selected Cezanne’s talent management software to help them deliver the first and only succession planning total solution that combines content, process and software.

The company, which has more than 20 years’ experience of helping companies use succession planning to drive organizational effectiveness, has launched the new service in order to help organizations benefit more quickly and easily from succession planning.

Mark Caruso, Managing Partner of Success Associates explains, “The claim that everyone has to invent their own succession planning processes is bunk. Sure, you have to modify things, but fundamentally the processes are the same”.
“The challenge for most companies is getting the process in place to start with, and then sustaining it. If it takes 18 months to role something out, there is a very high risk of failure.”

“Mid-sized companies especially need to be able to implement solutions quickly. By working with Cezanne, our objective was to offer a solution that was simple yet powerful, could be implemented across multiple industry sectors and geographies, and would make the whole process easier to manage and much more sustainable.”

“By combining our proven succession planning and leadership development models with Cezanne’s leading-edge SaaS talent solutions, we can help companies save time, money and aggravation – and deliver a great result.”
Another benefit of Cezanne’s succession planning software says Mark, is the centralized database and advanced analytics. “Lots of companies try to manage succession planning using spreadsheets. This works for a handful of roles, but using Excel becomes increasingly more time consuming as the organization increases the scope of leaders in the plan. These systems just aren’t designed to deliver the shared view of information or sophisticated data analysis, historical reporting and advanced metrics that effective leadership development and succession planning demand.”

About Success Associates

Success Associates offers the first and only succession planning total solution that combines content, process and software. It is also unique in its practical “how to” get results focus. The company’s comprehensive methodology includes content, process and software that create capabilities for you to implement, easily collect and analyze relevant data, set compelling meeting agendas, develop action plans, create and track development plans and easily measure success.
Headquartered in the US, the company has more than 20 years’ experience of delivering succession planning consultancy and workshops to hundreds of organizations, ranging in size from 1,000 to 300,000 employees. The company’s core process models have been benchmarked and published as “best in class” and their use has been refined and extended in collaboration with executives and practitioners since 1996.

For more information visit www.succcessassociates.com