Succession planning is an increasingly important activity for ensuring business targets are met. The primary purpose of Succession Wizard is to simplify succession planning and to act as a tool to identify potential succession gaps within organisations. It does this by using a powerful, yet user-friendly, interface making it a straightforward program to use and enabling managers to easily identify which key positions in an organisation are exposed. Once information has been input into the database it is just a case of monitoring and updating; running through various "what-if" scenarios to ensure that the unexpected has been planned for. Care has been taken to build an intuitive application allowing users to quickly benefit from using Succession Wizard. Little, if any, training is needed although full support is available to help with integrating the program into existing management processes. The important thing is to create an ongoing and durable succession planning environment rather than something which is just looked at once during the annual planning process.