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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.
Becoming skills-powered
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Are skills-based organisations the future of work? Join us on this journey to becoming skills-powered and unlock the potential of your people.
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.
Strategic partnership focused on employee experience announced
The effect of the last 18 months for HR teams and wider business in terms of people strategy has been clear for everyone to see. During the global pandemic organisations needed to shift their workers from tradition environments to more remote ones and whilst that was...
Getting better with data: The time is now for HR – webinar
In partnership with Ceridian, on 14th July 2021 LACE Partners held a webinar looking at the increasing value that HR teams are placing on using people data and analytics to evidence their decision making and improve productivity, as well as the impact the global...
HR strategy Vs People strategy – What is the difference?
This week’s blog sees our co-founder and MD Cathy Acratopulo and Director Chris Horton de-mystify the difference between a People Strategy and an HR Strategy, as well as discussing how HR Directors can articulate and operationalise their strategies over time. HR...
What challenges are HR leaders faced with?
Chris Howard is joined by Emma Leonis from LACE to discuss some of the challenges HR leaders are faced with, such as, 'How do you deliver employee-centric services given geographic challenges?' and 'How do you create a one-team culture in HR?' This podcast is a...
How do you build your business case for changing your payroll?
What are the biggest challenges that companies face when thinking about changing their payroll provider? How do you build your business case for change? Adam Morris and Chris Kirby from LACE Partners discuss some of the challenges they have seen from some of the...
How to get better at leveraging data
Barry Green is a specialist in data and worked as a Chief Data Officer for HSBC, Bank of Ireland and Allianz Insurance. In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast he spoke to us about a book he has written – Data Means Business: Level up your organisation to adapt,...
Are businesses doing enough to adopt digital employee experience?
Watch our latest 60 second video in which Duncan Casemore from Applaud talks about their digital employee experience report, which looked at what more businesses could be doing to adopt digital employee experience and some of the trends they have spotted from an EX...
Understanding the change impacts of an HR transformation
In our latest blog we talk to Cathy and Rachel from LACE Partners about the complexities of change management during HR transformation. This is a summary of the discussion from the recent HR on the Offensive podcast. What do we mean when we talk about change in a HR...
Why an SI is important for your HR tech strategy
The latest LACE Partners blog is a summary from a conversation Chris and Max had on a recent HR on the Offensive podcast. They discussed how the role of a systems integrator (SI) has evolved in recent years and why it is vital to ensure you pick the right partner when...
An overview of HRTech247 – online tech marketplace tool
Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners talk to Bob Rehill from HRTech247 about his online marketplace for HR tech businesses to share their products, as well as consultancies to share their experiences. Check out these additional resources: DIY vs. AMS: Picking the...
The Future of HR Shared Services – Hello Business Advisor
This is the third in the 'Future of HR Shared Services' webinar series, based on our white paper launched in November 2020. In this webinar Emma from LACE Partners is joined by Val Dale from Aggreko and Jayne Traill from Syngenta to talk about how they manage a global...
Should more businesses be embracing digital employee experience?
This week we spoke to Duncan Casemore, one of the co-founders at Applaud, a digital experience layer that is designed to simplify digital HR. Applaud have recently released a digital EX trends report so we wanted to find out what they learnt and discuss how and why...