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HR Shared Services Trends 2026 Report
Our latest bi-annual survey of the HR shared services marketplace, with perspectives from CPOs, GBS and HR shared service leaders across 45 global businesses.
Business restructuring. What it takes in practice.
How to deliver change at pace and ensure it performs beyond go-live.
Becoming skills-powered
How to build a skills-based organisation that drives agility, performance and talent mobility.
From implementer to influencer
Discover how HR is evolving from a reactive support function to a strategic influencer in business transformation.
Is the future of payroll real-time payments?
What is real-time payments and why do they help to support employees and their ability to control their money? What impact will this have on payroll teams? What about global payroll - how does it fit in? We look at this with Zellis and Ian Wheeler from Income Group....
Understanding the change impacts of an HR transformation
Chris Howard talks to Cathy Acratopulo about some of the top tips and takeaways to think of when running change management programmes whilst undertaking a HR transformation. https://youtu.be/7RHG6eZ3zvg Discover additional resources about change and HR...
Can you suffer from tech overload?
This HR on the Offensive podcast looks at a recent HR Magazine article that questioned whether employees and HR teams are suffering a tech overload because of the number of systems they are using. The HR Magazine article itself can be found here. Check out...
How to get your people to use your learning platform
How can you ensure your people use your learning platform (or learning management system - LMS)? How do you create a pathway to progress? What are the three ways you can make it easier for learners in your business? We look at this in the latest podcast, featuring...
DE&I – bringing your ‘whole self’ to work
How can employees bring their 'whole selves' to work? What does this mean from a diversity and inclusion perspective? How have attitudes towards DE&I changed post-BLM movement and the beginning of 2020? How do you measure the success of Diversity, Equality and...
How can you deliver consumer-grade employee experience?
In our latest 60-second video, Chris from LACE Partners talks to Jordan Robinson from Applaud about their recent whitepaper on the 'Future of HR'. How can organisations deliver a 'consumer-grade' level experience to their own employees? How can HR tech underpin that...
Unlocking the power of digital adoption analytics
In this week’s blog we speak to Matt Sturman, Senior Technical Consultant at AppLearn about the findings of their latest whitepaper; ‘Understanding Digital Adoption Analytics’. In our recent HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Matt (which you can listen to here)....
Consumer Vs Colleague Experience – are they really that different?
Our partners Applaud recently launched a whitepaper entitled ‘The Future of HR: Employee experience fuelled by consumer-grade technology’ and in the latest HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Luka spoke to Jordan Robinson about some of the key themes. What did the...
How can HR get better at using its people analytics data?
What lessons has the last 18 months taught HR teams when it comes to getting better at analysing their people data and analytics? What impact with predictive analytics have in future? We reflect on all of these questions in this blog summarising the webinar we ran...
Why is digital transformation so high on HR leaders’ ‘to do’ lists?
What is the highest priority for HR leaders in 2021 and beyond? Why can technology be such an area of frustration for employees, from an EX perspective? Why are so many businesses looking to increase the number of HR systems they have in place? We look at this and...
How does HR get its head into the Cloud?
This blog summarises the key points from our recent webinar which focused on the ways in which organisations can best prepare themselves for their move to the Cloud. Max Bailey, Aaron Alburey, from LACE Partners, were joined by Jo Munday (UK Head of People...
Strategic partnership focused on employee experience announced
The effect of the last 18 months for HR teams and wider business in terms of people strategy has been clear for everyone to see. During the global pandemic organisations needed to shift their workers from tradition environments to more remote ones and whilst that was...
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