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Public Sector Challenges - A HR Viewpoint

28th May, 2010
From People Management magazine, 6th May 2010, pages 18-23In a comprehensive article by Jane Pickard on the current mood and initiatives in the public sector given the potential scale of required savings in that sector; she found the picture to be...

Transact HR Launch new Lean Six Sigma Workshop for HR Professionals

17th May, 2010
This introduction to Lean Six Sigma will provide a framework to help HR professionals to become more credible within their own organisation by helping them to identify the root cause of any business issue, suggest sustainable solutions and measure bott...

Paul Rains Talks to Payroll World about Life as a Consultant

5th May, 2010
Melanie Pizzey, Recruitment Director of payroll recruitment specialists Chase Moulande interviews Paul Rains (Director of Transact HR Ltd) about life as a HR / Payroll Consultant. To read the full article click on this link to the February 2010 Pa...

Share Service for Councils

23rd Apr, 2010
From People Management magazine, 8th April 2010, page 6HR has a 'Golden Opportunity' to shape change in the public sector by implementing shared services - according to Dean Shoesmith, president of of the Public Sector People Managers' Association. Mr ...

Police should share HR

23rd Apr, 2010
From People Management magazine, 8th April 2010, page 7The CBI has urged police forces to share back office functions, including HR and IT. The CBI have actually called for the move to be compulsory in order to save public money, and overseen by a sing...

Ulrich on HR business alignment

20th Apr, 2010
From People Management magazine, 25th March 2010, page 11At a recent event in London organised by BPO specialist Logica, Dave Ulrich stated that he believed HR were leading the way in making businesses more sustainable in the wake of the economic crisi...

HR Shared Services - the missing links

6th Feb, 2010
Peter Cablis of The Cablis People Company - a Transact HR business partner explains his model for a successful HR Shared Service Centre

How will Cloud Computing affect HR?

4th Jan, 2010
See how Transact HR can help your business leverage maximum benefit from best of breed processes and systems.

Ulrich article on HR Transformation

9th Dec, 2009
In an article in People Management magazine, Dave Ulrich and Justin Allen make the point that for HR Transformation programmes to be successful, they must be linked to clear business objectives and customer expectations of the service HR should provide.

Reduction of HR staff ratio from 1:44 to 1:77 employees can be achieved using our Lean Analysis Tool

9th Dec, 2009
Our Six Sigma Methodologies could help the Public Sector improve HR efficiency and help 'Put Front Line Services First'.

Special Consultancy Offer

16th Nov, 2009
Lean Analysis, HR Processes

Free White Paper - Lean HR

25th Sep, 2009
Improving transactional processes produces a more effective and efficient service and delights your customers

Economic climate boosts HR Shared Service Centre Approach

21st Jul, 2009
Recession, public sector savings, private sector, HR shared service centres, SSC

A new report says companies 'could be repeating the same mistakes of the last recession'

4th Apr, 2009
recession, shared service centres, eliminate waste, Lean, reduced costs

New Web Page on KPI's launched

17th Feb, 2009
A new Web Page has been launched today. It explains the relationship between Service Delivery KPI's and HR metrics and how both can be an effective and qualitive measure for monitoring Continuous Process Improvement. Click on the st...

Director achieves IPD Chartered Membership status

30th Jan, 2009
Transact HR Director Ian Madeley has recently been notified that he has been accepted as a Chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD).Ian studied for and passed the IPD examinations some years ago when it was still called the ...

Transact HR Director Ian Madeley becomes a PRINCE2 Practitioner

27th Nov, 2008
Transact HR Director Ian Madeley has recently passed the Foundation and Pratitioner examinations to become qualified in the PRINCE2 project management methodology.PRINCE2 is the principle project management toolkit used in the Public sector, as it...

Paul Rains to deliver masterclass session at Softworld Oct 2008

11th Oct, 2008
Paul Rains to deliver masterclass session at Softworld Oct 2008

Transact HR Director Paul Rains wins IPP Award

20th Sep, 2008
Institute of Payroll Professionals Awards 2008

HR Career Path Transformation

26th Jun, 2008
HR Careers hit a new glass ceiling Source: People Management magazineAuthor: Jane PickardIssue date: 12th June 2008Page: 12-13 The following is a summary of the above article reported in the People Management magazine which reports mainly on the rese...

Public Sector HR told - Embrace Technology

2nd May, 2008
Public Sector HR urged to embrace technology Source: People Management magazineAuthor: James BrockettIssue date: 1st May 2008Page: 8 The following is a summary of the above article reported in the People Management magazine which reports on an interv...

Don't ignore Transactional Role - Ulrich

9th Apr, 2008
HR Transactional role, Payroll Transactional, Dave Ulrich

Onboarding - Nautical but nice!

8th Feb, 2008
More and more organisations are waking up to the term 'onboarding' and it's benefits if done well.Onboarding is a term mainly used in the United States, and refers to the whole process between offering someone a job with the organisation right thr...

Strategic focus drives HR restructure

13th Dec, 2007
Strategic focus drives HR to restructure Lucy Phillips Issue date: 15 November 2007Source: People Management magazinePage: 11 Research conducted by the CIPD has found that 53% of organisations have restructured their HR function over the past&nbsp...

Voice of the Customer in L&D

13th Dec, 2007
The Value of Learning Martyn Sloman Issue date: 29 November 2007Source: People Management magazinePage: 32 In this article Martyn expanded on the themes described in the book 'The HR Value Proposition' (Ulrich & Brockbank), when they said 'Val...

2007 HR Survey Results Published

23rd Nov, 2007
HR process survey results

HR Transformation - be flexible

5th Oct, 2007
Facing up to the Facts Peter Reilly Issue date: 20 September 2007Source: People Management magazinePage: 43 An article by Peter Reilly, following CIPD research conducted with 781 UK organisations, showed that 81% have recently restr...

Workforce Analysis Report

26th Sep, 2007
Transact HR assist LB Merton with their Annual Workforce Analysis Report

Sainsbury's To Open Shared Service Centre

23rd Aug, 2007
HR Shared Service Centre Sainsburys

IPP Conference 2007 - Edinburgh

22nd Aug, 2007
Paul Rains to deliver Payroll Software Technology Workshop at IPP 2007 Annual Conference

HR guru David Ulrich urges leaders to build innovative HR IT Systems

14th May, 2007
David Ulrich believes that if we want innovative leaders in our business we need innovative HR IT systems

HR in the year 2020

8th May, 2007
In an article published in a recent edition of Personnel Today, several top HR Directors were asked for their views of how the HR function might look in the year 2020. Interestingly, the majority view was that transactional processes wou...

Transact HR Launch Workshops to Measure HR / Payroll Processes

5th May, 2007
Transact HR launch new HR process Improvement Workshops

The HR Business Partner Role

11th Apr, 2007
This is a summary of an article in People Management magazine, dated 5th April 2007, in which Anat Arkin analyses the different definitions of the business partner role

HR SSC - the Transact HR Approach

12th Feb, 2007
Our approach to transactional HR processes is to adopt the HR Shared Service Centre (HR SSC) concept originally developed by US academic David Ulrich. Although this solution has it's difficulties, many of these can be over...

75% of HR execs believe focus on service delivery blocking strategic activity

2nd Feb, 2007
Illustrates how poor systems, processes and culture hold back the HR function from adding real business value. Article in Personnel Today magazine.

New LogicaCMG Service Delivery Manager looks to use Six Sigma

2nd Feb, 2007
Ros Styles, new Service Delivery Manager at payroll service provider LogicaCMG, looks to use 6sigma to maximise productivity and minimise costs

HR Guru David Ulrich Predicts HR Division

20th Jan, 2007
In an interview with Recruiter Magazine, David Ulrich who speaks in London on the 30th January, 2007 gives his views on the future of HR service delivery.

HR Transformation - Pitfalls of the Ulrich model

23rd Nov, 2006
The article below, appeared in the November 2006 edition of People Management magazine ,which explains why a more flexible approach to the HR SCC concept is often required to meet individual business needs.

PwC Report - Efficiency could save employers £2,000 a year per full-time worker

12th Oct, 2006
UK companies could save up to £2,000 a year for every new full-time employee by managing their staff processes more efficiently using HR shared services, a report out suggests. New data, from consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in its annual HR Sh...

Paul Rains invited to present to the London Councils

21st Sep, 2006
Association of London Government, London councils

Organisations are failing to measure the success of HR processes - PSL

21st Sep, 2006
46% of organisations still do not measure the success of their HR processes according to research by online assessment specialist PSL.PSL carried out research with organisations to investigate where HR departments saw their focus 12 months from now.“Th...

Paul Rains to deliver Masterclass Session at Softworld 2006

21st Aug, 2006
Paul Rains Director of Transact HR to deliver another Masterclass Session at Softworld 2006 on the 19th October 2006 at the NEC titled 'Selecting the right HR IT system to maximise your Return on Investment'. This is his second invitation to this event...

Paul Rains to deliver Lean HR workshop at Reunion

21st Aug, 2006
Paul Rains Director of Transact HR to deliver two workshops on 'Lean HR' at the annual Reunion conference this year in Bedford on the 20th and 21st September 2006. 

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