At Schlumberger, information about employee preferences is maintained in a central SAP system so that managers know their employees’ career desires. Technical talent strategy has a great deal of talent mobility built into it. Technical employees also have the option to move into the areas not considered technical as part of their career path.
Schlumberger has developed a robust technical professional career path for high-performing technical talent, which mirrors the managerial career path.
The pipeline identification tool at IBM provides a visual report of a team or organization’s performance/potential mapped into a nine-box grid. The pipeline database can be mined to assess pipelines and develop learning plans and solutions to strengthen pipeline candidates.