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HighRoads Launches Its Strategic Partner Network
Perfect Balance of Strategy and Technology to Reduce Cost and Improve Value of HR Programs
BOSTON (September 11, 2007) - HighRoads, the preferred HR information management solutions provider for F500 companies, today introduces its Strategic Partner Network, the industry’s most comprehensive resource for increasing the value of HR programs.
By bringing together the services of highly specialized experts with innovative technology, HighRoads creates a single source for best practices, strategic insight and robust information management solutions to meet today’s complex HR challenges.
HighRoads’ award-winning solution suite defines the new way of managing HR programs and suppliers with automation and information control. Its solutions provide total visibility into the effectiveness of benefits strategies, highly auditable processes and continuous improvement in HR supplier performance.
Based on its proven track record of driving efficiency, service excellence from human resource suppliers and saving millions on benefits without sacrificing quality, HighRoads is attracting dozens of boutique firms to its partner network.
New partners include leaders in key practice areas: MHS Advisors, for supplier advisory consulting; Risk Strategies Company for brokerage services; and WayPoint Communications, Inc. for HR management and communications. These new partners join existing partners Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Medstat, a Thomson Healthcare company.
“HighRoads brings a new dimension of efficiency to the communication solutions we provide to our clients,” said Jacque Abernathy, principal of WayPoint Communications, based in Houston. “Partnering with HighRoads will allow us to leverage technology and translate data into meaningful communication solutions that engage key stakeholders and help the organizations we work with realize the full potential of any desired change.”
Sharing strategies and holistic benefit data, consultants can seamlessly integrate HighRoads’ HR Information Management solution into existing service delivery models, while HighRoads expands its reach to help customers move quickly on strategy and implementation.
The Optimal Strategy & Technology Balance
The HighRoads Strategic Partner Network is designed to help customers get the most from their consulting and technology strategies.
The combination gives HR professionals relief from complexity, rigidity and intensity of managing HR programs. With strategic insight into new and better ways of tackling every aspect of HR program and supplier management and data automation that streamlines the process, HR teams do their jobs more efficiently, with better results – from supplier management, summary plan description (SPD) development, procurement and contract management.
“The competing pressure of retaining world-class talent while reducing the costs associated with employee benefits makes the HR role more challenging than ever,” said Brent Bannerman, founder and chief strategy officer for HighRoads. “HR organizations recognize the need for strategic consulting and technology, but generally seek them in silos. Our partner network changes all that – wrapping the best ideas with the solutions that can make them truly effective.”
ABOUT HIGHROADS
HighRoads, Inc. (www.HighRoads.com), the new way of managing HR programs and suppliers, improves the employee experience while dramatically reducing costs for large, complex organizations. HighRoads has automated HR processes for more than 100 Fortune 500 employers along with 700 of their suppliers, consultants and outsourced administrators in 75 countries. Clients include some of the world’s largest companies, such as General Dynamics, Honeywell, IBM, Kraft, Staples and Toyota. Founded in 1999, HighRoads is a privately held company headquartered in Woburn, Mass.
HighRoads Company Contact:
Lori Dustin
(781) 503-4030
ldustin@highroads.com
HighRoads Media Contact:
Michael McDonough
(617) 969-9192
mmcdonough@corporateink.com