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CPOs: From HR to workforce transformation - whitepaper
Delve into workforce transformation, aligning HR for business success, and addressing critical aspects from leadership roles to data relevance.
Less stress HRIS - Part two: Beyond basecamp
Learn the essential steps for setting up your HRIS for long-term success.
Less stress HRIS - Part one: The road to the Cloud
Our latest whitepaper, 'Less stress HRIS - The road to the Cloud,' will help you prepare for a successful HRIS implementation.
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HR Shared Services Trends 2024 report
Our latest HR Shared Services Trends report outlines 2024 key trends including AI, service delivery technology and function capability.
CPOs: From HR to workforce transformation - whitepaper
Delve into workforce transformation, aligning HR for business success, and addressing critical aspects from leadership roles to data relevance.
Less stress HRIS - Part two: Beyond basecamp
Learn the essential steps for setting up your HRIS for long-term success.
“Digital talent” roundtable reflections
Listen to this podcast to hear the key takeaways from our latest networking dinner where we discussed one of the main themes from our ‘One Big Thing’ research launched in October this year: Talent attraction and retention. In partnership with author and HR...
How to ready your data for an HRIS implementation
In this week’s blog we hear from senior consultant Neil Ilott about how to get the foundations right with your data quality. In any project making sure the data is ready is a crucial – and often overlooked – stage. Read on to learn the core considerations to bear in...
How does internal mobility help retain talent?
When resourcing for talent should businesses focus finding it internally rather than looking externally. How can businesses better advertise their opportunities to internal talent? Managers often see internal mobility as a loss instead, they should accept that it’s an...
HR Shared Services talk recruitment, retention and perception
Back in July, we published our HR Shared Services Trends 2022 report. Since then, senior HR Shared Services professionals have noted several consistent themes emerging within their businesses. Recently we gathered senior HRSS people and homed in on a specific part of...
HR technology vision, investment, case and product selection
For this project the client in question was embarking on the first stage of a strategic cloud transformation journey. The first phase in 2022 assessed and developed the options and costs for a global core HR technology platform across three separate businesses which...
The seven trends HR should be aware of in 2023
In this episode Chris speaks to Gary Stringer, from HowNow, about an article he has written on the Seven HR Trends to Win 2023. In it Gary tells us about the top trends HR can take advantage of to start the next year strong: Listening more (and show it is) Performance...
HR’s ‘one big thing’ in 60 seconds
What is the most pressing strategic objective for senior HR professionals in the next 18 - 24 months? What are Chief People Officers (CPOs) most concerned about and what is keeping them up at night? How do they tackle these issues? In our latest 60 second video Chris...
Avoid the COVID19 crisis mistakes: INVEST MORE in technology and talent, not less
A recent article in CIO magazine suggested at a Gartner IT Symposium in Barcelona, that CIOs should be using the current recessionary period as an opportunity to use digital investment to deliver growth, focusing on ‘revolutionary work’ to empower the workforce,...
Making the move from in-house to HR consulting
In this week’s blog we hear from Emily Fryer, one of our amazing consultants at LACE. Prior to joining the team in September 2021 Emily worked ‘in-house’ at both UCL and Cath Kidson. In this blog Emily explains what motivated her move into consulting, the...
What can businesses do to enable effective inclusivity?
Chris and LACE managing director Cathy Acratopulo speak to Jim Macleod about enabling inclusivity and all things DE&I. Jim shares his stories about leading diversity and inclusion initiatives within the military space. They also discuss the important role culture...
Investment in your payroll function: All or nothing?
As the calendar years begins to draw to a close, attention turns to budgets – both setting and spending. In today’s blog Chris Kirby argues the case for investing in the payroll function to deliver real-time value to a business. The current financial climate has...
What is the role of a CPO? What does good look like?
Welcome to the latest episode of HR on the Offensive! In this insightful discussion, Aaron and Cathy delve deep into the realm of Chief People Officers (CPOs), shedding light on the qualities that define a remarkable CPO. In this latest episode of HR on the Offensive...