Skip to main content

Insights and practical resources

Practical resources, checklists and decision guides for HR, payroll and workforce technology decisions. Resources are being developed and will be published progressively.

Priority topics

The following topics are in development. Each is designed to address a common decision point, gap or failure pattern in HR, payroll and workforce technology projects.

  • Payroll assuranceForthcoming

    Payroll assurance readiness checklist

    Questions to test whether payroll, T&A, rostering, data, controls and audit evidence are ready for scrutiny.

  • Business caseForthcoming

    Signs your HRIS business case is not ready

    Common gaps in options, costs, benefits, risks, assumptions and delivery implications.

  • Time & attendanceForthcoming

    Why T&A and rostering projects fail

    Practical failure patterns across workforce rules, integration, ownership, exceptions, testing and operating model.

  • Implementation readinessForthcoming

    What to clarify before HR/payroll configuration workshops

    Scope, data, decisions, process ownership and worked examples that should be ready before design starts.

  • RequirementsForthcoming

    How to structure HRIS and payroll requirements

    A practical approach to requirements that can support evaluation, design and testing.

  • PayrollForthcoming

    What executives need to know before approving a payroll transformation

    Sponsor-level questions on risk, cost, governance, readiness and evidence.

  • Implementation readinessForthcoming

    Why implementation readiness matters before vendor design workshops

    How unresolved client-side decisions create rework and delivery risk.

  • Payroll assuranceForthcoming

    How to assess time-to-pay traceability

    How to think about the evidence chain from work pattern to pay outcome.

  • Operating modelForthcoming

    HRIS, payroll and workforce systems operating model considerations

    Roles, responsibilities, support, controls and decision rights that affect success after go-live.

  • RFP supportForthcoming

    Common mistakes in HR/payroll RFPs

    Issues that make vendor responses hard to compare or weakly connected to real business needs.

Have a complex HR, payroll or workforce systems issue?

Send a short note and we'll arrange a focused discussion about the problem, the decision you need to make, and the support that may be useful.