Our latest thinking and thought leadership
Here you can find our latest thought leadership, blogs, webinars, podcasts and videos. Use the filters below to browse our insights based on topic, or format. If you have a topic you’d like to suggest then get in contact with us today.
In the spotlight
Where M&A value is won or lost
Most deals don’t fail on paper, they fail in execution. A three-phase framework for CPOs to protect deal value through the people side of M&A.
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.
In the Spotlight – How can you create a happy and productive organisation?
Doing things right or doing the right thing? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners and Co-host Annette Andrews from the HR Guild, talk to Stephanie Davies from Laughology and Founder of the National Happiness Awards, about how you can create a happy and productive...
How do you foster a culture of innovation?
Earlier this year on the HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Wendy Muirhead, VP of Ceridian Europe, about what It means to drive innovation through company culture. As a fast-moving technology business there is an expectation for Ceridian to keep innovation at the...
How are businesses thinking about digital adoption in 2020?
What does digital adoption in 2020 look like? On this Thursday's podcast, Aaron and Chris are joined by technology adoption expert Andy Barlow, VP of Innovation at Applearn. We talk to Andy about their recently released Digital Adoption Pulse Report, where they asked...
Since Covid-19, how has the talent management landscape changed?
We caught up with Kevin Green, CEO of What’s Next Consultancy and bestselling author of Competitive People Strategy to discuss what has changed in the UK talent management space since the start of the pandemic. If you missed the podcast you can listen to it here, or...
How has digital employee experience accelerated during the pandemic?
We sit down with employee experience expert Luka Winterborne and our HR Transformation Director Emma Leonis to talk about how Covid-19 has pushed many organisations to drastically change and advance their digital employee experiences. We explore the new focus on...
How collaboration tools have forever changed the HR landscape – Workplace by Facebook
In a recent ‘HR on the Offensive Podcast (you can subscribe to the podcast here) Chris and Aaron spoke to Nazir Ul-Ghani, Head of Workplace by Facebook. Today’s blog highlights key points from the discussion, including how people have quickly adapted to life during...
The power of ‘How’ – the role of digital adoption platforms in a post-lockdown world
Chris from LACE Partners talks to Raj Sundarason from WalkMe about the future of digital adoption platforms. Raj talks about the way in which DAPs can improve efficiency and speed up peoples lives. He also explains how digital adoption solutions can turn HR into...
Are you getting your digital employee experience right?
On Wednesday 29th July we hosted the latest in our ongoing LACE Partners webinar series (you can watch the recorded version of the webinar series here) which looked at the role that the digital employee experience plays in the working world post Covid-19. We’ve listed...
How collaboration tools have changed the landscape – Workplace by Facebook
Chris and Aaron discuss the importance of teamwork tools in keeping workforces connected with Nazir Ul-Ghani, Head of Workplace by Facebook. People have quickly adapted to life during lockdown and how tools that enable online engagement with work colleagues have...
How to keep your HR tech platform purring like a well-oiled machine
As the latest round of releases from the various cloud software providers looms on the horizon, Celine from our HR Tech Practice took some time to look at some of the ways in which organisations need to prepare their business for any functional updates that may about...
Digital adoption platforms and why they should matter to you
In this week's podcast we spoke to digital adoption expert Lily Oliver about what we mean by 'digital adoption platforms' or DAP. When implementing change in an organisation, one of the biggest challenges you can face is your employees embracing the change and really...
How LACE Partners can help you with your latest HRIS platform updates
Celine Haffner and Chris Howard talk about the ways in which LACE Partners can help HR Teams with their planning of the latest functional updates to your HRIS platform. Whether that is before you go live with the system, or ongoing 'business as usual' support, we can...
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