Hydrogen-electric aviation company H2Fly needs engineers who can work on problems for which there is no established playbook. Siân Harrington asks HR...
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More than half of HR leaders expect HR and IT to merge. Yet leaders at Weetabix, Zenith and the British Heart Foundation are taking very different...
Strategies, systems and productivity measures can tell leaders how work is supposed to operate. The Work Reality Gap looks at what happens when those...
Giesecke+Devrient began experimenting with AI years before ChatGPT brought the technology into everyday working life. Now it has more than 300...
Reuters reported last week that Starbucks has scrapped an AI inventory tool across North America after problems with miscounting and mislabelling...
Seven in 10 organisations are struggling to manage change, with the biggest barrier being the number of changes happening at the same time, according...
As organisations rush to bring order to AI adoption, centres of excellence are gaining ground. HR has strong reasons to pay attention, because these...
A new Stanford report based on 51 successful enterprise AI deployments offers a grounded view of what is shaping results in practice inside...
Many organisations respond to friction by tightening return-to-office policy. That approach rarely addresses the underlying issues.
Return-to-office strategies often focus on how often people attend. The more important question is what the office is for
Return-to-office strategies often rely on managers to make them work. Many have not been given the clarity, capability or support to do so.
Return-to-office policies often aim for consistency. In practice they create uneven experiences across roles, teams and individuals. That gap quickly...
The time of AI pilots is over: Gabriel von Mitschke-Collande on scaling AI
Many organisations have spent the past few years experimenting with AI. Giesecke+Devrient started much earlier. In this In Practice video group chief digital officer Gabriel von Mitschke-Collande explains what the company learned when the challenge changed from testing AI to using it more widely across the business
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Standard Chartered’s innovative approach to workforce management and development sets a benchmark for other organisations aiming to navigate the...
Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has tied a £1m bonus to AI usage. Partner Tony Randle shares what HR leaders can learn from its ambitious, inclusive...
European financial services firm Societe Generale embarked on a quest that many organisations grapple with today: transforming inclusion from an HR...
IRIS embeds AI by empowering employees through hands-on learning, ethical guardrails and grassroots innovation led by HR, not just tech teams
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Return-to-office policies often fail before they begin. The issue is rarely attendance. It is the lack of a clear, credible explanation for why people...
How one CEO introduced AI without damaging trust
AI adoption often gets framed around technology, efficiency and speed. In The People Space’s interview with Abby Connect chief executive Nathan Strum a different story emerges: one about culture, trust, workflow friction and the practical realities of helping people use AI with confidence