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Piers Hudson
Sr Director, Research
Piers Hudson is a research leader aligned to the HR Functional Strategy and Management and Future of Work research teams, based in London. These teams focus on the HR function's strategy planning process and the upcoming trends that will impact it. Piers leads on major research projects - leading recent studies on Delivering World Class HR in the New Work Environment" and "Augmented HR". He is currently working on workstreams around "HR in 2030". His past research has focused on HR roles, structures and capabilities, in particular the tensions in HR delivery models and ways to overcome them.
Previous experience
Mr. Hudson has worked on change management in most of his past roles - from being an self-employed consultant supporting government-lead reforms in education and youth services, through to change management on large systems-integration projects for blue-chip companies, during his time with Accenture.
Professional background
Accenture, Manager, 4 years
Consulting Strategies Limited (as a contractor), Associate Consultant, 4 years
Department for Work and Pensions, Team Leader, 1 years
Areas of coverage
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HR Function Strategy and Management
Education
Masters, Social Policy, London School of Economics
Bachelor of Arts, Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge (Selwyn College)
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Specifying the aims for HR Transformation, and structuring the successful plans to achieve these.
Diagnosing the key challenges underlying HR structure and developing future-fit HR organizational designs
Assessing the HR capabilities and role design to support organization's critical business imperatives.
Outlining thorough HR strategy planning processes, and facilitating the link between HR and organization-wide mission critical priorities.
Planning the change management required to embed a new HR Target Operating Model.