The business partner model is often not implemented properly – primarily, by failing to, as a first step, ensure HR really understands what the organisation and its line counterparts do. This lack of understanding leads to HR using ‘assumed’ need rather than ‘real’ need and the subsequent delivery of ‘HR best practice’ that the line neither needs nor wants…

Click here to read Chris Roebuck’s article from HRMagazine.co.uk.

Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company. Click here to read the entire report from the McKinsey Quarterly.