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F-Coop Life Cooperative's Initiative in Talent Management

In a groundbreaking move to enhance its workforce efficiency, F-Coop Life Cooperative, based in Fukuoka, Japan, has embraced the COMPANY Talent Management series from WHI Holdings. This integration aims to capture the individuality and skills of each employee, optimizing their placement within the organization. By adopting this state-of-the-art HR system, F-Coop aims to create a workplace where every individual can shine.

Background for Choosing the COMPANY Talent Management Series

F-Coop serves approximately 550,000 customers with a broad range of services, including food delivery and retail, alongside various community welfare initiatives. The cooperative has set ambitious goals within its “2030 Vision,” focusing on building an attractive organization for both internal and external stakeholders, while simultaneously fostering an environment where everyone can contribute meaningfully. Understanding employees’ personalities and skills is crucial for effective personnel allocation and support tailored to individual needs.

Previously, the analysis of vast amounts of HR information posed significant challenges for F-Coop’s HR department, as manual extraction and processing of data consumed valuable resources and limited their analytical capabilities. Realizing the imperative need for a comprehensive talent management system, F-Coop decided to explore the implementation of CTM2.0.

Several factors influenced their decision:
1. Seamless Integration: F-Coop has utilized the COMPANY series for around 15 years, making the transition to CTM2.0 relatively effortless, allowing them to leverage existing data with minimal effort.
2. Rich Functionality: The CTM2.0 system offers a plethora of features tailored to future needs, ranging from skill visualization, workforce optimization, employee engagement surveys, to career development support.

Expected Benefits

1. Enhanced Management and Visualization of Talent Data

With diverse operations in delivery, retail, and welfare services, F-Coop recognizes the importance of fostering a workplace where all staff members, regardless of their attributes, can thrive. The extensive manual labor previously required for data compilation and analysis has posed difficulties for the HR teams. The introduction of CTM2.0 allows for the seamless integration of HR data—including payroll and attendance—accumulated over years in the existing COMPANY system.

By incorporating qualitative information about employees such as skills, experiences, and career aspirations, F-Coop can consolidate information from approximately 1,500 employees into a centralized management system. This ensures the availability of up-to-date data for talent management without introducing extra manual tasks.

The dashboard features of CTM2.0 empower HR teams to quickly access organizational data, such as age distribution, tenure, and gender ratios. By facilitating complex analyses combined with personal data like performance reviews and movement histories, the system alleviates cumbersome data processing tasks, providing insights into organizational statuses and challenges that can inform effective planning for placements and retention strategies.

2. Sustainable Talent Management through Support

F-Coop is not only implementing a new system; they are also focusing on ongoing operational effectiveness through a “collaborative support” approach. This includes data preparation before implementation and redesigning operational processes to ensure the system is user-friendly for staff. By doing so, they aim to establish a robust foundation for continuous data-driven analysis and workforce planning.

F-Coop's commitment to creating a remarkable workplace is evident in their focus on ensuring that diverse employees can fully demonstrate their capabilities. The alignment of CTM2.0 with their longstanding use of the COMPANY series will aid in maximizing the efficiency of the accumulated data while minimizing workload. Gaining specialized support from WHI, F-Coop is dedicated to building a workplace that truly allows everyone to shine, thus contributing significantly to the local community in Fukuoka.

About WHI Holdings

WHI Holdings strives to create a society where every individual can realize their true value through its integrated HR system, COMPANY. Since 2020, they have been promoting the HCM Full Suite concept to holistically support all facets of HR management, thus enhancing the capabilities of organizations and individual employees alike.

For more information about the COMPANY Talent Management series, visit WHI Holdings' website.