Systems Made Simple Mission Statement

Systems Made Simple, a Lockheed Martin Company was founded in 1991 in Syracuse, NY by two businessmen that had very different approaches, but their previous business knowledge and experience allowed them to build a Fortune 500 Company.
The mission of Systems Made Simple, a Lockheed Martin Company is “To deliver leading-edge solutions that leverage information technology in the Healthcare domain to improve, increase, enable and ensure efficient and effective delivery of services for patients, providers, government agencies and insurers”(http://www.systemsmadesimple.com).
The vision of the company is to be a leading provider of “Health Information Technology” services by applying an unrelenting drive towards continually improving the quality
The Board of Directors established goals at two levels. The first level represents the high-level corporate goals which align with the mission and vision of the company. These goals establish the framework for what the Board expects our organization to focus on accomplishing during the year. The second level represents organizational goals that specifically align with the corporate goals to establish a framework that can be used to develop departmental as well as individual goals. The management staff of SMS will be responsible, working in partnership with HR and Corporate Initiatives, to develop individual goals for each facet and individual of in their respective organizations. These individual goals will be communicated to each level of the organization, incorporated into the Wingspan employee appraisal system and actively used in the performance appraisal process.
Another characteristic that is present in the Performance Management system at Systems Made Simple is Thoroughness. All employees should be evaluated; all major job responsibilities should be evaluated; evaluation should include performance spanning the entire review period and feedback should be given on not just positive performance but also areas that need improvement (Aguinis,
There are some areas that need improvement and those are in regards to the Performance Management system. One characteristic that is lacking in the current PM System is that of Identification of effective and ineffective performance. There are some managers that unfortunately do not take the performance appraisal process seriously, they rate all of their employees the same and copy and paste the same comments. This is not fair to the employees, particularly those that go above and beyond in their job. Each individual employee deserves to be rated accordingly, if managers continue to reward the low performers there is no incentive for them to leave. Some employees do all of the work while other do just enough to get by, these two types of employees need to be rewarded