Case Study · Enterprise Transformation
Stabilizing a Global HR Organization Through Enterprise Transformation
Global travel and hospitality enterprise. Executive transitions, workforce reduction, and a $2M+ HR technology redesign, all running concurrently.
$2M+
Global HR technology transformation
$450K+
Technology cost savings negotiated
0
Interruptions to payroll or benefits delivery
When a global travel and hospitality company reduced its internal HR function during one of the most complex transformation periods in its history, Hive embedded alongside executive leadership to hold the operating environment together, and lead the technology redesign that would define the next decade.
The Pressure
Following a significant reduction of the internal HR organization, the company entered a period of compounding change: executive turnover across the people function, organizational redesign, benefits transitions, active vendor negotiations, and a large-scale HR technology transformation, all running at the same time.
Critical operations, payroll, benefits, compliance, talent operations, employee communications, and vendor management, could not be paused. Employees and executives still needed a functioning HR organization every day.
What Hive Built
Hive embedded alongside executive leadership to stabilize the function and establish clear operating governance across the remaining internal team and external partners.
In parallel, Hive led a $2M+ global HR technology redesign and implementation, maintaining execution through multiple executive leadership transitions, coordinating vendor selection and negotiation, and standing up the operating rhythm required to keep the program on schedule.
Through disciplined vendor negotiation and portfolio consolidation, Hive removed more than $450,000 in technology costs from the roadmap without reducing capability.
Why It Held
The organization did not need more advice. It needed a steady operating hand that could sit next to executive leadership, absorb complexity, and translate strategy into daily execution while the environment kept shifting underneath it.
That operating discipline is what allowed a leaner HR function to keep delivering, and what allowed the technology transformation to land on time and under budget.
Result
A leaner HR organization. Multiple executive transitions. Enterprise delivery maintained.
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