Successful companies large and small all around the world know that much of their competitive advantage resides in their intellectual capital (PEOPLE). They also know that it takes a strong and special commitment to grow employees into the fully-performing leaders they depend on to achieve the organisation's objectives, in the present and into the future.

Fortunately for companies navigating the leadership development and succession planning minefield, a framework has been developed encompassing the best practices and lessons learned from companies like GE, and exists today as the Leadership Pipeline Methodology, the Drotter Model.

The Leadership Pipeline is applicable from entry level right through to chief executive officer level. It is referred to as a pipeline because it is a model that companies can employ to grow their own talent. It takes into account the different work requirements at each leadership level and the changes required in skills, priorities and perspectives, for leaders to make a successful transition from one leadership level to the next.

While it is widely accepted that the Leadership Pipeline methodology has everything a company needs for sustainable management of talent and succession, until recently, the methodology has been mostly paper-based, making the processes time consuming and difficult to use. Now, through a powerful partnership between Drotter Human Resources and Specsoft Software Solutions, ask-IT Solutions offers our clients the Leadership Pipeline Methodology as an easily deployable, web-based application called ‘The Integrated Manager”.