Bodes IT targets corporate HR needs with new Performance Management System

Bodes IT (www.bodes.it), a specialist provider of Corporate Performance Management solutions, has today unveiled its latest suite of powerful applications aimed at the corporate HR market. The product sets covered by the Bodes e-HR suite include solutions for Performance Management, Self-Succession Planning, Learning Diagnostics and Recruitment Management.

Bodes e-HR provides comprehensive operational e-HR process improvement through the implementation and support of technology-driven solutions. Its systems enable corporate customers to empower their managers, teams and individuals alike, whilst showing visible and measurable business return.

Bodes IT is a unique combination of creative business leaders, IT specialists and HR specialists, says Anthony Carnell, Managing Director, Bodes IT. We understand our customers, their strategy, their needs, and how to fit these into their existing value-adding processes. We have thrown away the book and are not constrained by fad and tradition. Instead, we have a highly entrepreneurial approach that is led by our customers’ commercial needs.

The Bodes e-HR system covers the full performance management cycle from basic objective setting to assessing top and bottom performers and ’raising the bar’ with multi-source data. The Performance Management module also boosts staff retention by empowering employees to map their own career progression. With the Bodes e-HR system, succession planning is simple and available to everyone. Internal job opportunities are presented along with their associated skill and behavioral requirements. In addition, the ’stepping stones’ needed to gain the experience required are all presented clearly.

Anthony Carnell adds, Gone are the days of arrogant organisations thinking that they can dictate their employees’ careers. Senior guys sitting in a room behind closed doors with limited information and deciding the next roles for their key talent without even asking if that’s what they want, and then wondering why they leave the business. The market, psychological contract, and willingness of talent to switch organisations have all changed. Yet antiquated and nave ’planning’ systems have not kept pace.

The Bodes IT system also acts as a powerful Recruitment Management tool, ranging from Web-based branded applicant-facing systems through to complete ’back office’ processes. Its careers portal is essentially an out-of-the-box job board, providing easy to follow candidate registration, job search, and online application. The product can be branded easily to reflect the look and feel of other company materials, such as advertising. Multiple languages can also be supported.

Continues Anthony Carnell We find that in large organisations, it is often easier to get a job externally than it is internally. Given the rightful fluidity of the job market, this is crazy! It is based partly on an outdated psychological contract which has a central theme based on loyalty, golden handcuffs and individuals fear of the external market. Our systems enable talented people to smoothly go to where they are best motivated, rewarded and appreciated.

A key aspect of the Bodes e-HR system is its flexibility; customers are not just buying a boxed product. Bodes IT has built the system in small components so that it can provide customers with exactly what they want, quickly and easily. Although there are three major modules, there are also sub-modules within each. Whether a customer needs a full implementation, or a simple component like a climate survey or a 360 assessment tool, Bodes IT can deliver specific tools for the job.

We have thought about adding value through the smallest product components. Says Anthony Carnell. Take our 360 tool - yes, it measures using validated questions based on an organisation’s competency and behavioral platforms from reports, peers and bosses perspectives and provides a ’gap analysis’, but so do rival systems. Where Bodes e-HR differentiates is in providing team leaders, and the organisation as a whole, with a measurement of how the business changes over time. In other words, we create strategic thinking by understanding the functionality of a business, and using the measurement of the effectiveness of change in refining business strategy.

The entire Bodes e-HR system is built on the .NET framework, which means that is highly configurable and easily scalable. The system can be accessed via Web-delivered software, or it can be hosted on the client’s own hardware. Alternatively, Bodes IT can also act as an Application Service Provider, whereby the client uses a Web browser to access the software from the Bodes IT servers.