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Last month, the BBC asked whether growing tech firms into 'unicorns' was the answer to securing the future of business in Wales. Can new tech disruptions help to address corporate and nationwide skills gaps?

Alison Ettridge looks at the Life of the G3 - a world where the CHRO adds as much value as the CFO and CEO.

Our CEO, Alison Ettridge looks at whether location still matters for businesses in a digital world.

Last week we launched Stratigens, our new platform for sourcing and collating external people data.

Provider of external talent market data, Talent Intuition, will launch a new platform, Stratigens at the end of this month. Stratigens, which pulls together millions of data points from the global talent market, will be revealed at an event at The Union Jack Club, London on Monday 29th April.

Our CEO Alison Ettridge is interviewed as part of the Leadership 2020 series. In this episode she talks about how leaders can make better use of data.

Every company wants to be a high performer, a market leader, the best in class.  Setting the benchmark that their competitors aspire to.  Inspiring, innovating, changing the game. But is this realistic for all businesses? asks James Hickson.

Before we launched Stratigens I held a series of workshops with HR Directors to explore what would data and insight would be of most value to them. One of the most interesting discussions we had was about competitor intelligence. What type of competitor analysis are you looking for?

As more of more of the issues businesses face are people centric we see the rise of the CHRO and a people first growth strategy. But to be successful a strategy needs to be informed by data - not just internal people analytics, but real time and predictive data. We explore this in this blog.

All too often HR is involved in strategic decisions too late. This leaves HR and talent teams reacting to a problem, rather than proactively informing the decision. Our philosophy is that to revolutionise the decision-making process, we need to empower HR with the right information.

Find out why our new starter James Hickson recently shrugged of the warm and secure embrace offered by large corporate businesses to join a tech start-up

Data eruption, diversity and ethics. Find out what HR thought leaders are saying about the year ahead

It’s the best and worst of times for decision makers says McKinsey. How can we make the best decisions for the business, in short timescales given the explosion of data in the market?

Using internal HR data for evidence-based decision making is becoming the norm. But how can HR use external talent data to support strategic decision making?

The ‘war for talent’ was first coined by Steven Hankin of McKinsey & Company in 1997. 22 years later it's as relevant as ever. Should have expected more progress by now?

We’ve been talking for a long time about the evolution of HR but there's still a belief that  “HR often cannot keep up with the pace of change in business” so what's holding us back?

To kick off the year we take a look at the theme of the World Bank's 2019 World Development Report that this year, focuses on the changing nature of work.