Business Cases

Implementation of Allegro's Appraisal Interviews Management at Lombard Odier Bank

Founded in 1796, LODH is one of the oldest Swiss banks. It provides its private and institutional clients with a wide range of consultancy services regarding property management and financial services. The LODH group is active in 14 countries with a staff complement of about 1,700. As the staff complement has more than doubled since the end of the 1990s, the Human Resources department had to adapt its methods and work tools to enable effective monitoring of each employee and constantly meet the new increasing requests.

The annual appraisal staff interviews used to consist of a 9-page Word document printed by the HR and distributed to the managers. The latter would work on the document together with the employees. After both parties had accepted and signed the document, it was sent back to the HR to be photocopied and filed. Finally, the HR needed to search the documents to pull out the required trainings, spot potential conflicts, etc. before replacing them into the staff members' files.

Gétaz Romang implements Allegro for its training management

"Much lesser paper work for the management of registrations in our group's training courses. That's really great!"

"What we want for this year much more consultancies and even registrations with Allegro. To attain this goal, we will, as a new step, promote several courses with the help of the Intranet and a direct link to Allegro!"

Gétaz Romang distributes 5 major product families (materials, wood, bathrooms, tiles, and kitchens) in Switzerland. It employs around 1.500 people in 40 branches spread across the Swiss territory.

The whole employee training process at Gétaz Romang (registration, ratification, information, history) used to be managed exclusively through paper work.

A yearly catalog containing all the available training courses was produced and distributed to all the section managers. Each employee could consult this document and find the desired course. In order to take part in a training session, the employee filled in a paper registration form which had to be approved by his/her direct supervisor and the branch manager before being forwarded to the Training division.

Allegro at Lombard Odier - An interview with Maxime Morand, Head of HR

Established in 1796, Lombard Odier is one of the oldest private banks in Geneva. Lombard Odier is active in 14 countries, with a headcount of around 1'700. It serves private and institutional clients with a wide range of wealth management services.

In carrying out this HR project, what were your objectives for the partners, managers and staff?

Our initial goal was to give each staff member access to their own data as well as to all the HR tools they needed. We therefore created five different user areas (or profiles): the Employee area (for thier personal data), the Manager area (for data on all of one's subordinates), the Partner area (for critical data on the whole firm) and finally the HR area (for all of the firm's HR data)

For Human Resources, we wanted to improve the quality of the data as well as to offer tools which were better adapted to our needs.

Implementation of Allegro's Absences and Overtime Management module at Lombard Odier Bank

"How comforting it is to know that with Allegro's different access rights each user has access to everything they need and are entitled to."

Founded in 1796, Lombard Odier is one of Switzerland's oldest banks. It serves private and institutional clients with a wide range of wealth management services. Lombard Odier is active in 14 countries with a staff of around 1'700 persons.

As the headcount more than doubled since the late 1990s, HR had to adapt its tools and procedures to manage and serve such a large number of people.