You know your company's top officers. But do you know your non-executive board members? Suddenly, non-execs have become some of Europe's most important business leaders. Consider Bruce Thew. He may be the rarest of them all: a multiple-company non-executive director who is also an HRO expert.

A conversation with the enterprise resource planning software industry’s reigning top fan of HR outsourcing, HRO Europe gets to the bottom of the Peoplesoft-Oracle-SAP drama and the surprising reason why there is an amazing drive toward standardization.

For this issue alone, we visited four European cities and got four different views of the €54 billion HRO phenomenon that is transforming business worldwide.

U.S. RPO Leader to Pay $115 million for ATS Developer in Hopes of Expanding Global Reach. CEO Says Market Will Decide Whether All Three Solutions Will Remain in the Company's Portfolio.

When HRO’s brightest stars and Europe’s HR thought leaders gather November 7 and 8 in Brussels at the lovely Conrad Hotel, the debates that started at the 2005 conference will become even more heated…because in 2006, the stakes are €6 billion higher than last year’s €54 billion market.

Despite confusion in the nascent marketplace, outsourced recruitment services continues to gain traction in the EU. Customers are drawn to RPO for its cost savings and process realigment.

A look at the latest research on the European relocation market: why businesses are outsourcing and how workforce mobility is improving the bottom line.

With myriad new regulations to watch out for, potential HRO buyers need to be careful about their engagements. Data privacy and employee liability remain two of the most compelling concerns today.

Starting in October, 2002, the HRO industry—distinct from the HR generalist crowd—gathered early-adopter clients by the handful. With those early adopters now renewing their first-generation contracts, the HRO movement is now wooing a larger group of later-adopters. This next wave of HRO users will differ from the first in four big ways.

Now that more companies are embracing HRO, the next issue of debate is whether HRO needs to be delivered on a country-by-country basis, or can an HRO deal ever truly be global?