Lumesse Making Available Presentations from its Successful Talent Management “Journey” Customer Conference Held Last Month

June 20, 2011

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Talent Management Customer Presentations Include Those From Merck, Sara Lee, McKee Foods and Luvata

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lumesse, one of the world’s leading integrated talent management companies, today announced that it is making available customer and industry expert presentations from its record-setting Lumesse “Journey” Conference held here last month. Lumesse Journey presentations noted here can be found at http://goto.lumesse.com/g/?RKFUOXVFJ3 and are in either PowerPoint or video formats.

Lumesse is one of the world’s leading talent acquisition and management companies, helping over 1,700 businesses worldwide find and manage the people they need in a changing world. Lumesse rebranded from its former identity, StepStone Solutions, in early May 2011 following a management buyout of the business in mid 2010.

Lumesse Customer Presentations

Jamie Whitmore, director Executive Talent Development at Merck spoke about “Performance Management -- Mergers and Acquisitions Facilitator.” He noted that performance management was a key lever that was used to facilitate two mergers in the past four years. First, the Schering-Plough acquisition of Organon BioSciences and second, Merck's acquisition of Schering-Plough. The tools in place for performance management were varied and even paper-based. In both cases, the project to implement a global performance management system was kicked off before the merger was finalized. Merck has completed its first cycle with solid success and is now preparing for the next phase of its talent management solutions: talent reviews and succession planning.

Catherine Berridge, director of HR Operations, Sara Lee, The Netherlands, presented on “Integrated Talent Management.” She noted that two years ago when Sara Lee was looking to replace its legacy performance management and succession planning systems its goal was not just to implement an integrated talent management solution but to drive employee engagement and support its new global employee value proposition. After the first step in the journey – the successful implementation of the Lumesse Performance Management and Career & Succession Planning -- Sara Lee has seen clear first signs of success.

Mark B. Newsome, senior corporate HRM, McKee Foods and Jeff Mays, talent acquisition leader for McKee Foods, gave a presentation on “Two Steps Forward One Step Back.” McKee Foods is on a journey to develop its talent management processes. Newsome and Mays walked attendees through the early steps of their talent acquisition implementation, including McKee Foods' collaboration with Lumesse and Workday, supplier of its human capital management (HCM) solution, to integrate the two systems -- a global first.

Joan Murray, director for Global HR Program, Luvata Global, spoke on “Compensation Using a Pay for Performance Strategy.” She noted that Luvata underwent a challenging transformation when it was created by the acquisition of a multitude of companies around the world including a total of 55 companies in 36 facilities operating in 19 countries. With this ambitious endeavor came the enormous challenge to bring the new organization under one compensation strategy. With the successful deployment of the Lumesse Compensation module, Luvata was able to overcome a multitude of obstacles in its global implementation ranging from languages, currency and cultural differences.

Lumesse Industry Expert Presentations

In addition to presentations from Lumesse clients, Lumesse is also making available at the same location presentations from the following industry experts:

Stacey Harris, principal analyst and director of HR & TM Research for Bersin & Associates, who spoke on “Five Things you need to do for Successful Talent Management.”
John Sumser, CEO, HR Examiner, who presented on “Using Talent Management to See Your Organization's Future.”
Michael Boedewig, principal, Deloitte Consulting, and William Cleary, manager, Deloitte Consulting, who presented on “Talent Goes Mainstream: Talent and Technology.”

“We were thrilled to welcome four times more clients than our past Conference including many of our clients from Mexico and Latin America. Has been fun to read the event blogs, tweets and post event articles attesting to the market’s welcoming embrace for our new brand, Lumesse,” says Bucky Couch, Executive Vice President, Lumesse, Americas.

About Lumesse (www.lumesse.com)

Lumesse is the only global company making talent management solutions work locally. We help customers around the world to implement successful local talent management initiatives that identify, nurture and develop the right people, in the right place, at the right time. Our multi-cultural background and presence means we understand how to deliver talent solutions that work the way our customers work, as individuals and as teams, because no two people, organizations or cultures are the same. We regard differences as strengths, not as obstacles.

1,700 customers work with us in over 70 countries because they recognize that commitment, innovation and value only come from people. We help customers to unlock and inspire that human potential in their businesses. Our integrated talent management solutions are comprehensive, intuitive, secure and fully internationalized into over 50 languages.