What’s in this whitepaper?

Much like any climb, getting to basecamp sets up your fundamentals, but moving to the implementation phase is also part of the journey that requires careful planning and execution. This paper explores eight essential areas for setting up your HRIS for long-term success – we are aiming to get you beyond basecamp and up the mountain so you can celebrate your success!

Step 1: Structure and governance – Getting your programme governance right upfront provides the necessary structure, accountability, and clarity throughout. 

Step 2: Change management – A well-planned change strategy will empower your workforce and facilitate smooth adoption. 

Step 3: Solution – Balancing the needs of employee experience, efficiency, and enabling business outcomes without over-engineering the system is crucial. 

Step 4: Data – Dedicating sufficient time to understanding the data, data cleansing, and migration ensures the usability and integrity of the platform

Step 5: Reporting and analytics – Considering the business needs, understanding business capabilities, and the needs of the future is critical for benefits realisation and commercial return. 

Step 6: Integrations landscape – Understanding the landscape of integrations and the future strategy and prioritisation informs the efficiency and experience achievability. 

Step 7: Testing and quality assurance – Effective testing and quality assurance guarantee a usable overarching solution and integrated user experience. 

Step 8: Target operating model, service delivery model and cloud support model – Developing the right target operating model will align the new system with your strategic goals and deliver the expected value from its future operation. 

Authors and contributors

Sian Beacham

Client Executive Director

Sian is an HR Transformation specialist and global programme director with over 25 years of experience.

Before Sian joined LACE as an Executive Director in May 2022, she worked at Accenture and IBM and has held a number of senior client-side programme director roles at large global organisations. Sian has delivery execution experience across the full HR scope and lifecycle from strategy and design through to delivery, adoption and business case realisation.

Sian’s passions are the upfront definition and structuring of the approach to transformation, including all the critical ‘readiness’ work to ensure a Tx journey is successful AND how to build an engaged, collaborative and productive team (with an innovation and FUN factor!)

Marcus Uzubalis

Director

Marcus is a data-driven HR leader with over 20 years’ experience in delivering HR transformation and change programmes. Before Marcus joined LACE Partners in 2024 as a Director focusing on client delivery, he worked in global, matrixed organisations spanning multiple industry sectors, including management consulting, financial services, aviation, and pharmaceutical logistics.

Marcus is passionate about optimising organisation design and establishing HR as a strategic partner to the business. He holds deep, practical understanding of the HR Operating Model gained from in-house roles in regional and global business-facing HR, Centre of Excellence, and programme management with a focus on organisation design, and mergers & acquisitions. He has attained extensive international experience from having lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the UAE and Italy over the course of his career.

Annette Frem

Manager

Annette combines theories, best practices and expertise from the fields of Change, HR, L&D, Branding and Communication to design strategies, plans and initiatives that create stakeholder buy-in, drive engagement, innovation, collaboration and deliver sustainable change.

Martin Colyer

Director Digital and AI

Martin joined LACE in September 2024, Martin is a thought leader, business leader and entrepreneur who has worked extensively in HR Technology for 20 years. 

Prior to joining LACE he ran his own advisory firm supporting clients such as BT, Tesco, Schroders and WPP. Before this worked both client side and within consulting both leading consulting practices and programme directing.