HR Technology Trends

Fosway Group’s Next Generation HR analyst practice provides independent research and advice on the key trends, underlying business drivers and outcomes of modern HR. Specialist areas include the future of HR technology, rethinking talent management, and the new differentiators of talent and people success.

The 2026 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition is now live and free to download. Last year’s story was one of turmoil and crisis management. That has been replaced this year by a focus on delivering an exceptional people experience – with AI as the catalyst.

The 2025 Fosway 9-Grid™’s for Talent & People Success and Cloud HR are also live, heralding a complete rethink of talent and HR strategy as traditional processes struggle in a post-pandemic world.

Used by HR buyers across Europe, each 9-Grid™ shows the relative supplier market options for European organisations.

9-GRID™

9-Grid™ has been in evolution since 2008 and is driven by demand for analysis and insight designed for European-based companies. Too often, organisations have had to rely on a US-centric view and the reality of business in Europe is completely different, where multiple languages, currencies and cultures are fundamental to organisations’ DNA. Our analysis reflects this reality and the exciting part is that the 9-Grids™ themselves are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the data and insight we provide to organisations evaluating or buying HR technology today.

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HR REALITIES RESEARCH

Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, is delighted to announce its 11th year of HR Realities. The research explores how HR teams are responding to the challenges and opportunities of a changing HR landscape, as well as looking at the HR tech ecosystem, the employee experience, and the reality of AI’s impact on HR.

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DISRUPTIVE INSIGHTS: HR

The HR tech landscape is in a perpetual state of flux, and Fosway research shows that a new wave of disruptive ideas is feeding in to these constant changes; change making companies and HR leaders are zeroing in on a specific aspect of modern HR to redefine and accelerate its development as part of the new people experience.

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Latest research

Discover, digest and download Fosway Group research into next generation HR technology trends, including full reports, infographics, articles and viewpoints. We hope this library of content will help inform your thinking and key decision making around next generation HR strategies, and the technology to best support your HR and organisational goals.

How we can help you

The HR tech market continues to grow, with new vendors and products appearing every year. Companies merge and get acquired. Technology changes. And with an ever expanding choice of solutions available, your decisions on which solutions to buy and how to invest are becoming more exciting, but riskier than ever before. Whether you’re just trying to keep up with the market, needing to validate your shortlisting or purchasing decisions or after a sounding board and evidence-based insight and advice, this is where we come in…

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