For corporate HR, talent and learning leaders

Make better buying decisions faster

Fosway is uniquely positioned to help you accelerate and de-risk your HR, talent and learning decisions quickly. The most experienced Industry Analyst team in Europe is here to help you make the right choices for your organisation, backed up by unrivalled market data and insight as well as practical advice.

To be clear, we are Industry Analysts, not a consultancy. Our USP is leveraging our unique research to provide you with the best advice; we already know who’s doing what, with whom, and with what outcomes – but what’s best for you?

Our corporate services are designed to help you rapidly:

  • Understand how HR, talent and learning is really changing, what works and what doesn’t

  • Upskill your team on the latest trends, innovations and how best to address your specific challenges and needs

  • Recommend best fit vendors for procurement shortlists with pre-knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses and likely fit to your needs

  • Assess and optimise your existing HR/Learning ecosystem and supplier choices

  • Validate your priorities and ideas, getting expert input on your specific questions or challenges

Who we help

From UK and European-headquartered multinationals to global companies, Fosway works with leading enterprise organisations across every sector. Thousands of companies participate in, read and value our Fosway 9-Grids™, AI and Realities research; hundreds

A small subset of clients in different industries includes: Alstom, Aviva, Boots, BP, BT, Centrica, Deutsche Bank, Faurecia, HSBC, International SOS, Lloyds Banking Group, Novartis, PwC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sanofi, Shell, Swiss Re, Telefonica, Thomson Reuters, Toyota Motor Europe, Vodafone and many others.

Fosway has supported us through every stage of our decision making, right from the initial gathering of our needs, through to the final selection of a solution and vendor that could meet these and importantly fit with our culture. Their insight and understanding of the European corporate learning and the learning technology sector, combined with their independent guidance, really sets them apart.

Natalia Rud, Manager, People & Innovation, Toyota Motor Europe

WHAT DO WE HELP WITH?

Here are just some examples of previous solutions:

  • Validation of future learning system requirements for a global manufacturer with recommended supplier shortlisting and accelerated RFP process

  • Review of learning tech ecosystem in a European aviation leader with recommendations on increasing learner experience and engagement

  • Strategic advice on HR system strategy and procurement of a new HCM solution in a European bank to improve HR operating model and talent outcomes

  • Input on skills-based work management approach and platforms to a global professional services firm

  • AI capability benchmarking of HR and Talent tech suppliers for a UK financial services organisation to simplify their ecosystem and reduce operating costs

  • Review and recommendations to improve the learning operating model of a global pharmaceutical company

How we help

We provide impartial best advice leveraging our unique Analyst market knowledge and research, as well as the data and analysis tools that underpin them. We help you rapidly validate your strategy and needs, and recommend how best to proceed, and with whom. Our clients mainly engage with us in one of three main ways …

  • Strategic Analyst Partnering – Many long term corporate clients engage with us on a recurring basis over many years, seeking strategic and project-level advice on multiple topics as well as critical friend input and ad hoc analyst support. Working with clients over longer periods gives us a deep understanding of their culture, priorities and challenges and enables us to provide effective rapid advice as well as to optimise how we input to specific engagements and projects.

  • Structured Project Engagement – Alternatively, some corporate clients engage with us to accelerate and de-risk specific projects or procurements, leveraging our Analysts, their knowledge and our unique vendor data to make better informed decisions faster.

  • Expert support to individual corporate leaders – Both the above involve corporate-level engagements with multiple stakeholders, but we also work directly with individual corporate leaders to provide private analyst input as and when they need it, as well as involving them in our corporate network, private roundtable conversations, and deeper research.

Both options 1 and 2 are managed under a Fosway Corporate Engagement contract, and option 3 is provided under Individual Membership with credits for analyst time and other services.

Corporate Engagement

Our company-level engagements are provided via a Fosway Corporate Engagement (FCE) contract, which provides a framework for specific project support, strategic inputs or recurring engagement. The contracts include core engagement activities as well as a service credit system for specific projects and different Analyst services.

Often starting initially with a single project or input need, many clients see significant value from Fosway’s input and given their constant change and new priorities, have maintained ongoing recurring relationships over many years. Our longest active client has been working with us continually on multiple segments and projects since 2003!

Individual Membership

In 2024, Fosway introduced a new option for corporate leaders to become individual clients as a member of the Fosway Corporate Network. This gives you direct access to Fosway’s expert analyst team as well as the data and insights behind the Fosway 9-Grids™ and our other research. Membership also provides access to our private corporate roundtable events and a network of 250+ leaders that shape and underpin our research. The membership levels are:

Professional member with a starter analyst session, priority access to the corporate roundtables, and light benchmarking.

Premium member adds in monthly analyst enquiry time as well as 250 service credits for additional input, briefings and other services.

There is also a no-cost Associate member level too, which receives monthly research updates and access to corporate roundtables when spaces are available, but without access to analyst time or service credits for 1-1 inputs.