Legg Targets SilkRoad Technology’s WingSpan
<p><strong> Winston-Salem, N.C. — March 26</strong><br />Miller Legg has successfully implemented WingSpan, the performance management component of SilkRoad Technology’s Life Suite of Web-based talent management solutions. <br /><br />Miller Legg, a Florida-based, multidiscipline consulting services firm, selected WingSpan to modernize its performance management function by standardizing companywide biannual reviews and deploying a system of cascading corporate goals to align the focus and efforts of the company’s employees. </p><p>The deployment of WingSpan also has shifted the entire process into a customized online environment, eliminating the challenges of tracking and storing tens of thousands of paper documents required by the legacy performance review process.<br /><br />Miller Legg chose WingSpan after a thorough review of the performance management marketplace. </p><p>Key decision factors included WingSpan’s flexibility, affordability and customization features, as well as the pre-existing relationship Miller Legg had with SilkRoad technology. </p><p>Miller Legg implemented OpenHire, the recruiting management element of SilkRoad’s Life Suite of talent management solutions, in early 2006. <br /><br />“The success of our OpenHire Web-based recruiting and hiring process brought clarity to the drawbacks of our legacy paper-based performance review process,” said Kelly Eger, Miller Legg vice president of human resources. “The SilkRoad technology team listened to our needs and delivered a WingSpan implementation that super-charges our performance review process and meshes perfectly with OpenHire.”<br /><br />WingSpan is a flexible, Web-based employee performance management solution with a unique blend of functions that enable companies to ensure that every employee is up to speed on his or her role in the organization. </p><p>WingSpan’s performance management modules handle the complete spectrum of employee assessment needs, including performance development, goal setting and tracking, compensation and career succession planning.</p>