Lumesse continues to impress the industry with its comprehensive talent management, talent acquisition and learning management solutions
In 2017, there are few more exciting pockets of technology than the HR sector – and in a competitive field, Lumesse stands apart.
Lumesse is able to provide over 2,400 enterprises worldwide with a comprehensive talent and learning management suite, which allows them to identify, support and develop high potentials – all from the one system. In addition, a talent acquisition platform supports HR and managers to find the right candidates.
Armin Sommerhuber, head of business unit talent management, APAC at Lumesse, says the advent of social media, mobile technology, and machine learning has revolutionised how companies manage and recruit the right talent – and tech providers such as Lumesse have moved with the times.
“The Lumesse talent management and talent acquisition platforms are focused on leveraging the advancement in technology to help HR managers and recruiters manage high potentials, as well as source and select candidates efficiently,” he tells
HRD.
“We see our customers as partners,” Sommerhuber adds, when asked about what sets his company apart from the competition. “We don’t want to sell a product, but a solution that supports our valuable customers in their daily tasks. Their success is our success.” Here,
HRD chats with Sommerhuber – a 10-year veteran of the company – about the Lumesse story.
HRD: Does Lumesse offer an all-encompassing talent suite or best-ofbreed solutions?
Armin Sommerhuber: Both. Our talent and learning management suite, ETWeb Empower, is very comprehensive and consists of different bundles – or modules – to manage and measure KPIs, skills and competencies, to manage and review employees’ salaries and to manage career and learning paths for employees. With the ETWeb Empower learning platform, companies can offer their employees a customised learning platform for classroom training and e-learning. With TalentLink, our talent acquisition solution, and CourseBuilder, our solution to create e-learning, Lumesse offers two best-ofbreed solutions.
HRD: What sort of solutions are clients typically looking for and why might they turn to Lumesse?
AS: Our clients are often looking for a talent management suite, such as ETWeb Empower. However, the most used bundles/modules are HR core, performance management, skill and competency management and learning management. The demand for learning management solutions is continually increasing. The trend is moving toward blended learning courses – a combination of instructor-led training and e-learning courses.
Many companies want to link performance management and learning closely together – which makes a lot of sense. The development activities should support performance management to help employees achieve their goals. This also increases the motivation and productivity of employees. Many prospects contact us because Lumesse was recommended as a talent and learning management provider or as a talent acquisition provider. We also organise many events around the world to which we invite the HR community, and we participate in major HR fairs and conferences as well.
HRD: Why else is Lumesse different?
AS: We started a few years ago with the implementation of ETWeb Empower, our talent and learning management solution. It has been implemented from scratch. We didn’t acquire other software solutions to integrate them in ETWeb Empower, as many software companies do, but implemented a clean and single code line software. ETWeb Empower is a people-centric solution instead of a processoriented solution. In this solution people/ employees are in the focus. It is very easy to use and one can work with it without having days of training or reading training materials or books. One of the highlights is that we have implemented a two-layer technology: a customer layer and a Lumesse layer. This allows customers to easily upgrade to a higher version and not lose any configurations. We upgrade only the Lumesse layer and there is no additional effort required by the customers.
In ETWeb Empower, one is able to recognise team members or peers or to endorse them for a skill, similar to social network platforms. The expectations from Generation Y (millennials) regarding software systems/HR solutions are different than those of previous generations. Considering that by 2020, around 50% of the population worldwide will consist of this generation, enterprises need to have a strategy on how to motivate them to use an HR system, and this is exactly one of the focuses that we have with ETWeb Empower: motivating people to use an HR system because they like it, and not because they are forced to use it.
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