Case Study: Imec achieves 50% faster performance planning with Lumesse Talent Management

Talent management solution enables performance planning, cutting the time taken by 50%

Imec, a world‑leading nano‑electronics research organisation with around 1,750 staff across multiple countries, was hampered by paper‑based, intranet‑downloaded forms for objective setting and performance reviews. Its matrix structure—where employees contribute to several programmes under different managers—led to version‑control issues, poor visibility for HR, misalignments and long delays in completing the performance cycle.

Imec implemented Lumesse Talent Management, integrated with SAP and customised for its matrix governance, to centralise objectives and enforce structured workflows. The solution eliminated paper forms, improved alignment of individual, team and company goals, and gave HR full progress visibility—cutting objective‑setting time by 50% (from 2–3 months to 4–6 weeks) and streamlining multi‑manager performance evaluations; the company is now extending the system to compensation and learning.

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