NEWS
Concentra takes consulting to the cloud with OrgVue 
Launches intuitive design tool
10 October 2011

London | Concentra, the business consulting and technology services firm, has launched an organisational design tool called OrgVue on 22 September 2011. The cloud-based tool joins people, processes and performance together and helps HR and the Board make the right decisions about organisational design.

The powerful application enables organisations to identify patterns or gaps in their workforce, including capabilities, activities andcompetencies. After a series of successful pilot phase projects, multiple clients have now signed for the full OrgVue suite. Several organisations, from management consultancies through to HR teams at local councils, have taken up the web-based tool. Wakefield District Council and Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) have both been using the software.

“OrgVue has enabled our HR team to adopt a more strategic role in delivering efficiency and value to the organisation. It used to take up to three and a half days to collate the data needed to answer certain questions about how the Council is run, but now the same questions can be be solved in ten minutes,” said Helen Grantham, HR Director at Wakefield District Council.

“We’ve already become more efficient by using OrgVue to discover connections between sick leave and working conditions. This hasenabled us to take action to combat high levels of absence.”

The tool maps not only personnel, but also business functions and company hierarchies. OrgVue can be used to identify skills gaps, anomalous rates of sick leave and risks from staff turnover, tenure or retirement. In anticipating and identifying these issues, companies can create strategy and contingency plans to tackle foreseeable problems.

“We are using OrgVue in multiple areas of our business, where it has proved itself invaluable,” said Sam Healey, group organisation development leader at RSA.

“OrgVue has transformed our ability to see the current state and to model change to understand its impact and benefits. When working with our senior leadership it allows us to accelerate the organisational design process and provides immediate insightthat would otherwise be invisible. This helps us to make better decisions and secure the buy-in of stakeholders,” continued Healey.

Benchmarking is a vital element in achieving strategic results but can often fail to capture real progress. OrgVue can be used to create an intelligible and comprehensive map of progress against plans. This means detailed reports can be produced in minutes and re-run on the fly, reducing the time it takes to benchmark progress. For more details on this, visit OrgVue.

Source : Concentra