30% of integration strategies in mergers and acquisitions fail. In order to achieve sustainable and supported people-oriented integration, organisations must pay close attention to essential parameters that transcend the purely legal and financial aspects. In his article, Frank De Roover identifies and discusses stakeholder management, clear and targeted communication, effective onboarding and workable timing as levers for a successful integration strategy in mergers and acquisitions.

When choosing and implementing your HR Software, do you go for one big name or a smart combination of the best in their field? In HR Software: ‘all-in-one’ or ‘best-of-breed’?, Bram Van Gyzel gives us some useful insights and guidelines for this. He also lists 10 rules of thumb for an HR tool implementation, which makes his article all the more interesting!

The starting point of Raf Lamberts’ article is that a high-performance culture in business is equivalent to an elite sports team competing at the highest level and that in both areas sustained excellence does not happen by accident, it happens by design. In “High Performance Culture. The Simple Ingredients for Lasting Change”, Raf offers us a closer look at what he believes to be the recipe for success and the simple but necessary ingredients that fuel high performance cultures.

Daan D’hooghe states in “Importance of a Job Architecture/Function Catalogue? And how to get the most of a Function Framework?” as a basic premise that a function framework should be a key element of any People Strategy. In his clear and well-grounded article Daan describes the added value a function framework offers to both the employer as employees. He elaborates also, among other things, on the benefits that generic job descriptions provide for the employees to determine the content of their work and gives us some guidelines to ensure the active use of the function framework in the organisation.