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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.
Writing a business case for HR tech
Celine Haffner from LACE Partners gives some advice on what to consider when writing a business case for implementation of new HR technology in your workplace. https://youtu.be/anfoRnDRbJo
HR technology adoption – it’s not just ‘plug and play’
We sat down with Rachel Mawson, Practice Lead for our HR Adoption and Change side of the LACE Partners business, to talk in a little detail about some of the common challenges she has seen for businesses working with LACE Partners. She gives us some insight as to what...
What do HR consultants actually do? – Life at LACE series
Charlie Frost is a second year Management Student from the University of Nottingham. Charlie is spending the summer with LACE Partners as an intern and so, to give you a flavour of what life is like at #TeamLACE we have been spending a little time with Charlie getting...
Can your technology actually deliver to my business?
We spoke to our CEO Aaron Alburey about why he and Co-Founder Cathy Acratopulo set up people_tech four years ago. Aaron discusses his past experience of dated conference models that never allowed attendees to truly assess the viability of technology for their...
My first week at LACE – Life at LACE series
As part of a new series brought to you by the team at LACE Partners, we're delighted to kick off our Life at LACE series with Charlie Frost, a second year management student from the University of Nottingham. Charlie is spending the summer with LACE Partners as an...
Five simple steps in making a successful HR tech business case
At LACE Partners, we often work with clients to set up a new programme of work or piece of HR tech. This often starts with the development of a strong business case for the change. So what makes a successful business case? I've identified five easy steps and have...
HR on The Offensive – HR must ‘step out of the shadows’
HR needs to think the unthinkable and reinvent the very nature of what it does and why it does it. The HR profession is at a tipping point. Unprecedented turbulence, driven by tech innovation, hyper-competitiveness and market disruption, has created levels of...
Innovation from the inside out
Workday Elevate 2019 At LACE Partners we are very enthusiastic about the HR technology market, innovation and disruption. It's also fair to say that tech adoption is our passion – we love it! When we read through the Workday Elevate agenda for this year, it really...
Asking the million dollar question…how can you sustain true adoption after go-live?
75%1 of all technology adoption programmes fail. Needless to say, the impact of this is massive, both to an organisation’s finances and its people. We waste millions of pounds and countless hours – and on top of this, spending months on a project doomed to fail from...
HRD Summit 2019 – Aaron’s Insights
I was filled with excitement to be attending our first HRD Summit in Birmingham this week. Since launching LACE, we’ve been to many such events, but none with quite so many senior professionals in one place! We were attending this year in a very unique position: as...
LACE on Tour – Rachel and Celine at Workday Rising, Vienna
When I first started working, I dreamt of having the chance to travel the world. If you told me when I was 18 that I would end up in Vienna with a bunch of like-minded people challenging the status quo, I would have laughed. But, much to my surprise, that’s exactly...
People_tech Highlights 2018
https://youtu.be/3qD9HZ_FsjA
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