Our latest thinking and thought leadership
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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.
Do you need to reinvent your HR function?
Charlie Knox from SD Worx speaks to Chris Howard from LACE Partners about the recent white paper SD Worx have launched - Reinventing HR - as well as some of the interesting challenges that teams face when looking at their payroll function. https://youtu.be/Af_JaLgbaVE...
Do you really need an app for that?
Today’s blog is a summary from our podcast released last week featuring a conversation with Future Workshops’ CEO Matt Brooke-Smith, who spoke to our team about the shifting landscape of mobile app development, how it is no longer the preserve of the IT department and...
Is ‘upskilling’ the new ‘hiring’?
In a recent HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Max from spoke to Andrew Holmes from Skillsoft about the changes that the online learning platform had seen in 2020 moving in to 2021. Earlier this year they produced a report which focused on 2021 predictions for...
Reinventing HR: The shifting relationship between employees and employers
This week’s blog is a summary of the some of the discussion topics in the recent HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Charlie Knox, Director of Product & Solutions at SD Worx, who spoke to us about the recent ‘Reinventing HR’ white paper which interviews 3000+...
How can HR teams prepare for the Cloud?
In this latest 60-second video from LACE Partners, Kayley Gaylor from our HR Tech Advisory practice talks to Chris Howard about some of the key questions HR leaders need to be asking themselves when preparing to implement Cloud-based HR tech system into their...
‘Best of breed’ or ‘enterprise’ HR tech solution: what is right for you?
Best of breed technology or enterprise HR tech solution? Take 60 seconds to hear from our Director, HR Technology Max Bailey what he thinks HR Directors should be taking into consideration. https://youtu.be/BusarRUf2zk Check out these additional resources: DIY...
Navigating a tough year for managing people change
Joined by Penny Lang (previously from Cornwall Care), this week’s blog summarises a discussion on one of a recent HR on the Offensive Podcast. Penny ran a change programme implementing Ceridian’s HCM technology Dayforce in 2020 so we spoke to her to understand how you...
Running before you can walk? The importance of Cloud readiness
In this week’s blog we ask our HR Technology experts about the importance of being Cloud ready. Is moving to the Cloud as easy as promised and how should you mobilise your Cloud transformation? This blog examines how to reduce risk when preparing...
Empowering managers through technology
What are the challenges HR leaders face in empowering their managers and leveraging technology to do so? How have these challenges changed over the last 12 - 18 months? How do you give line managers control and independence, whilst ensure they have a degree of self...
Why it’s time to accelerate the digital agenda – embracing the buyers’ market for HR technology
At LACE we pride ourselves on our knowledge and understanding of the HR tech landscape. Today’s blog is an overview of a round table discussion we ran in March 2021, discussing with some of our HR Tech Advisory Team why it is a buyers' market for HR tech products...
Reinventing HR post pandemic
Chris and Emma are joined by Charlie Knox from SDWorx to discuss their latest white paper, which looked at survey results of over 3000 respondents to the changes that HR teams are expecting to occur after the pandemic, including the improving of employee experience as...
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