The Company
DELACOUR DANIA - very specialized legal servicesDELACOUR DANIA offers expert legal services within virtually all branches of law, and primarily advises international and domestic businesses, financial institutions, insurance companies, organizations, associations and various funds. With offices in major cities across the two halves of Europe - including Copenhagen and Arhus in Denmark, Moscow and Kiev in Russia, and Nuuk in Greenland and Torshavn in the Faroe Islands – the company is truly international. The Danish offices house more than 200 employees, including 80 advocates who address an impressive range of legal markets, and staff employees who support their efforts.
The Situation
From manual processes - to strategic HR
When Charlotte started with DELACOUR DANIA, the company used spreadsheets and manual processes to manage information about its employees. When mapping the organizational structure, she walked from office to office, asking the occupant where he or she belongs on the chart. “We realized we needed a system that lets us efficiently organize and utilize information about our employees and advocates,” tells Charlotte, “we had our payroll system, which is effective in its own right, but we didn’t have a solution that could handle the full spectrum of employee information.”
The Solution
DELACOUR DANIA have huge expectations
Let’s just say that our expectations for what we’ll accomplish through MindKey™ HCM are HUGE,” smiles Charlotte Franck, HR Manager for DELACOUR DANIA, one of Denmark’s largest law firms. “We know that we have a lot of work ahead of us, but we’re confident and anticipate strong returns on our investment.”
In addition to managing employee master data, DELACOUR DANIA plans to amass rich, detailed competency profiles for all staff personnel and lawyers. DELACOUR DANIA wisely recognizes that all professionals have a forte and personal preferences; within the realm of law, for example, some enjoy the technical and research aspects of handling a case, preferring a quiet corner of the law library where they can pour undisturbed over volumes of precedents to find just the right argument. Others thrive when making their case, and excel at getting to the heart of the issue.
DELACOUR DANIA will use competency profiles and automated, workflow enabled discussions between managers and employees in MindKey HCM to create a clear picture of each person’s strengths and personality so that the firm can easily match the right lawyer with the right task. “I used to use our mail system to find someone who had experience with a certain kind of case,” Charlotte remembers, “but now it’ll be easier to find the person whose background and education align best with the needs of the client.”
DELACOUR DANIA shows due diligence in everything it does, including its evaluations of new IT investments, and the firm carefully considered several systems. What it learned was that while several can provide some of the same functionality as MindKey HCM, and still others would try to develop it, MindKey HCM was by far the most user friendly system that DELACOUR DANIA reviewed. The firm liked MindKey HCM for the way the system structures and delivers employee data in a convenient, comprehensive overview, but in the end the firm based its decision to go with MindKey HCM on the solution’s unmatched usability.
I’m definitely looking forward to putting MindKey HCM to good use,“ concludes Charlotte. “The system seems to be extremely simple and user friendly, and I’m sure that it will lift much of the burden off of our HR folks.”
Benefits Summary
DELACOUR DANIA expects to achieve the following benefits through MindKey HCM:
- Improve organization and availability of employee data
- Reduce time spent on administrative activities
- Find better task to resource matches faster
- Easily document compliance with legal obligations for competency maintenance
