Information system model of succession planning and career path

Succession planning and career path are often used to develop the employee career path in the organization based on their interest and capabilities. The problem is a lack of integrated information system to help the company in finding the successors of vacant positions and in mapping out the employee career path. Several methods were used in this research such as questionnaire and benchmarking with literature review. The questionnaire method consists of 16 questions which were based on Likert scale and literature benchmarking method that compared Evergreen Retirement Community, Boomers, and Brazilian Professionals to SME Sector. As for the information system design, Unified Modeling Language (UML) was utilized to produce use case diagram, sequence diagram, activity diagram, and entity relationship diagram (ERD) to help designing the user interface. The result of this research revealed an information system succession planning and career path model that is integrated and computerized to help companies in finding the successor for the vacant position and map out an employee career path.