Professions and Retention Services Professions programs are key to IT worker retention and linking human capital expenditures to business strategy.  Foote Partners helps you build them. Smart employers are developing and executing robust internally branded employment strategies for attracting and growing IT talent. Even more important, they’re using these strategies for retaining IT professionals at a critical time in the history of the IT profession. These strategies typically marry total compensation, professional development, performance management, work/life balance, non-monetary and recognition elements into an overall retention program tuned to corporate culture, organizational goals and performance philosophies.  A recent study by Foote Partners involving 164 North American and European employers discovered that employers are implementing new-generation professions and retention programs for their extraordinary effectiveness in delivering: Long-term retention solutions Cost-effective, high-value professional development Staffing strategies tightly linked to business needs Decision models for labor strategies: outsourcing, offshoring, hiring Profession/retention programs: The great recruiter neutralizer. These programs are particularly effective at neutralizing the influence that a good executive recruiter can have in convincing talented IT professionals to considering looking elsewhere. Well-run professions programs help lock in those who are ambitious about their career direction and professional development -- exactly the kind of workers that recruiters target most.  Exactly how at-risk is your company for stepping on 'employment landmines' that can cause the loss of key IT employees to other companies?  Our Profession Programs Risk Assessor is a quick and efficient tool you can use for measuring your company's preparedness and capabilities against key best/better practices at more than one hundred companies who have developed these programs. Click on the link above for a free Assessor.   For more information about this service Click Here

Offshore Outsourcing & Strategic Resource Management

The biggest impediment to successful outsourcing isn't signing a bad contract or making a poor choice of vendors...it's in the execution.  According to a major Foote Partners research study involving more than 800 onshore and 90 offshore outsourcing initiatives, companies make their biggest mistakes by poorly managing their supplier relationships and -- with offshoring in particular -- failing to anticipate the considerable organizational upheaval involved.  As a result, cost savings are being squandered and more than 50% of offshore outsourcing initiatives are failing to meet contract expectations and performance metrics.

Our Outsourcing/Offshoring and Strategic Resource Management practice begins by focusing on  common offshoring stumbling blocks, including assessing business and organizational readiness and managing communications, behavioral/cultural, HR, and project delivery aspects of implementing an otherwise well-researched outsourcing strategy.  

We provide much more than a how-to guide and roadmap: we actively guide your journey from assessment, knowledge gathering, and strategy phases, through sourcing, to the governance and management once the supplier decision has been made.  You may use as little or as much of our tools and hands-on services as you require.  We will guide your journey and teach key executives, managers, leaders (and opinion leaders) how to gain more than just intellectual support for an outsourcing.  We can  also help you select the right supplier, negotiate your contract, and concentrate on governance issues.  

Our senior Offshore Outsourcing consultants are experienced in cross-cultural HR and organizational change management details in both ITO and BPO initiatives involving India, Philippines, Eastern Europe, China and other popular offshoring destinations.  We can also help you analyze your IT portfolio and select and negotiate a contract with the right supplier for your needs.  

Exactly how at-risk is your company for stepping on the 'landmines' that can blow an offshore outsourcing program to bits?  Try our Offshore Outsourcing Risk Evaluator, a quick and efficient tool for measuring your company's preparedness and capabilities against key best/better practices at more than 100 companies who have completed offshoring implementations.

 

Organizational and Transition Management

Competitive Intelligence

IT Management and Organization

 

Performance Management

Our Performance Management practice targets institutional performance issues associated with a wide range of IT and business segments.  We are particularly experienced in internal IT/business partnerships and organizational issues associated with outsourcing/offshoring, IT service delivery (ITIL, CMM, SixSigma),  and a range of initiatives where organizational metrics are critical to the smooth operations.    

 

IT Human Capital Management   Our Human Capital Management practice will assist you in building an IT agenda that leverages new technology, proven management processes, and strategies for human capital management of full-time employees, contractors, consultants, and outsourced/offshored personnel. Our team of management consultants, IT industry analysts, and former human resources professionals have unique qualification to help you in the following areas: --Developing and executing  IT HCM strategies for leveraging technology globally --Transition to new IT career paths and IT/business job rotation models  --Due diligence for offshoring/outsourcing labor balancing decisions   --Auditing your organization’s readiness and identifying exposures --Setting realistic IT/HR priorities, goals, and organizational requirements  --Building HR, IT, and business alliances  --Employing powerful transition skills  --Building strong project teams

Enterprise Project Delivery

Managing organizations by project (MOBP) is one of the most effective management philosophies of the past ten years.  Developing Enterprise Project Delivery (EPD) capabilities is key to achieving success in CRM, DW/BI, ERP, SFA, and other key initiatives. Our Enterprise Project Delivery services brings a wide array of capabilities to companies in need of cross-functional management and advanced enterprise team development.  

--Change readiness assessment --Change management programs --Communications planning --Compensation benchmarking, total rewards --Cost management --Cross-organizational assessment and improvement  --EPD capability assessment --EPD implementation strategy --Human Infrastructure assessment  --Human resource planning --Incentive and reward programs designed for enterprise teams --Integration management --Myers-Briggs, DISC surveys --Organizational climate assessment --Organizational structure and transition plans --Organizational transition services --Project Management Office/Project Support Office development --Project initiation and launch

--Process workflow analysis and documentation --Procurement management --Project management  career tracks --Project prioritization and resource planning --Process documentation --Quality management --Risk assessment/management --Scope management --Skills inventories/gap analysis --Soft factor analysis --Strategic resource management --Staffing and selection processes --Staff retention programs --Stakeholder planning, analysis and management --Transition planning (processes, education, communication, knowledge transfer) --Team effectiveness surveys --Training and education programs for executives, managers, and team members --Virtual team capability models and templates

Executive Compensation