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How to think about… Org Design & Talent Mapping

Older readers might remember a time before LinkedIn. In this distant, sepia-tinted world, recruiters used to identify candidates by such arcane methods as networking,...

How to think about… Compensation Studies

Money, as Pink Floyd once said, is a gas. It certainly is if you're a talent manager trying to attract candidates in a competitive...

How to think about… Location Analysis

A couple of years ago, a well-known brand asked us to compare Düsseldorf and Munich as potential cities for relocating a tech & ops...

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Who’d be an economist? Marshalling financial data is a near impossible task at the best of times, but throw in a pandemic, a global...

Gonna wash that search firm right outta my hair! (Because they’re not worth it.)

The heady days following lockdown were exciting times for talent leaders. As the global economy reopened, companies loosened their purse strings and embarked on...

Money Talks

Here’s a conundrum.In over 20 years as a recruiter, I’ve only twice persuaded a candidate to move forless money. One was a KPMG partner...

Is Hybrid Working?

There was an increasingly vocal group of (mostly younger) professionals who were demanding more flexible forms of working. This was the same prescient generation who made much of the early running on such ideas as corporate purpose, sustainability and work/life balance. But their preference for working from home was often seen as a step too far.

Reversal of Fortune: The Emerging Importance of Investor Relations

For many years, Investor Relations (IR) was every global firm’s forgotten function. If businesspeople thought about IR at all, they usually assumed it was some sort of glorified comms job, a necessary buffer between an overworked Finance team and information hungry investors.

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How to think about… Org Design & Talent Mapping

Older readers might remember a time before LinkedIn. In...

How to think about… Compensation Studies

Money, as Pink Floyd once said, is a gas....

How to think about… Location Analysis

A couple of years ago, a well-known brand asked...

From Talent Management to Intelligence Management: HR’s Next Shift

Introduction The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is redefining how...

Playing it Safe

How to approach corporate security in an increasingly febrile...