Our latest thinking and thought leadership
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In the spotlight
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.
Digital Adoption Solutions – what you need to know ahead of time…
Rachel Mawson, Practice Lead from LACE Partners gives us an overview of Digital Adoption Solutions (DAS) and why you should be clueing yourself up on them now. What is adoption? At LACE, when we talk about ‘adoption’, we mean a measurable state of behaviour that is...
In the Spotlight – Learnings from a new entrant in a senior HR position
Aaron and Annette from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Darren Cornish of Aviva about his transition in to the world of HR and the challenging first year he had in the function. They also discuss the value of peer-to-peer networking groups and the Guild's...
Why your HR Tech roadmap is so important – 2020
Celine from LACE Partners sat down with Chris from the Marketing Team to talk through the importance of getting your HR tech roadmap right. It is the beginning of your journey and every HR team should focus on this stage of the process as a key priority. But what...
How closely are you looking at AI for your HR team (you probably should…)?
AI's potential in the HR world At the beginning of this year a few of the LACE Partners team made some 2020 predictions for HR. As part of his predictions Aaron identified AI as a hot topic. Whilst many experts have talked up AI for some time, it is fair to say that...
Life @ LACE – Fostering a culture of innovation
Having just celebrated my ‘half birthday’ at LACE Partners (that’s a thing, right? I mean, I get Prezzo offers of Prosecco for my actual birthday, so surely a ‘half work anniversary’ counts too?), I thought I would provide an ‘insider’s view’ on working within what we...
Building capability: It’s time HR put itself first
As part of our ongoing blog series focusing on some of the key findings from the HR on the Offensive whitepaper released in June 2019, Emma Leonis looks at one of the key elements of the report - building HR's capability. One of the most frequent challenges HR...
Kevin Green interview – Competitive People Strategy
Kevin Green, author of 'Competitive People Strategy' talks to LACE Partners' Chris Howard about some of the key takeaways from his book https://youtu.be/JD6kIH5xeTc
What is an HR technology roadmap and why should it be included when shaping your five-year people strategy?
In the first of a four-part series of HR Technology blogs, the team at LACE Partners sat down with Executive Director of HR Technology Max Bailey, to talk through how to realise your digital HR people strategy. In this first blog we focus on developing your HR tech...
What’s going to happen in HR in 2020?
Welcome everyone to 2020 and on behalf of the whole team at LACE Partners we wish you a happy new year. At LACE, we work hard trying to keep on top of all of the latest developments in the HR discipline, from the latest start-up tech companies that are providing tools...
A new agenda for employee experience
Kevin Green - advisory member to LACE Partners - provides an overview of a blog he wrote on the LACE Partners website about some practical advice on what HR Teams need to do to think differently about candidate, employee and leaver/alumni experience....
A new agenda for HR employee experience
We asked Kevin Green, who supported our HR on the Offensive whitepaper launch in June this year, to give us some thoughts from his perspective of the research which he has kindly outlined below. If you would like a copy of the whitepaper you can visit the HR on the...
Managing change vs managing adoption – hot tip: they aren’t mutually exclusive
We asked Rachel Mawson from our Adoption Practice to give us a quick explanation on the difference between 'managing change' and 'managing adoption', as this is something we're often asked at LACE HQ by clients or when attending events. Rach gives us her insight in...
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