Has AI killed consulting?

Could independent consultants provide the new delivery route to replace the model threatened by AI disruption of the consulting industry

Your Talent Pool is bigger than you think

Building talent pipelines has a major impact on organizational success: High5 explains the scenarios to support this

Business Transformation and Independent Talent 2026

2026 represents an inflection point in how organizations approach business transformation. Read to find out how the complexity of technological, operational, and cultural change has outpaced the capacity of traditional talent models

It's Liquid Gold: transformation using independent talent

Transformation teams are changing in format, creating a hybrid of internal and external talent, and replacing formal consulting firms

Time to move on from the PMO. Enter the Transformation Management Office.

Transformation isn’t just Project Delivery. Establishing a TMO could be the critical success factor in driving transformation forward.

Independent Consulting Landscape - What's New?

Trends observed through the High5 marketplace, customers and consultants on independent consulting in 2025.

Direct Sourcing: More Talk Than Action? Time for the MSPs.

Implementing Direct Sourcing with MSPs

The demand for independent talent in SOW programs

Why companies are moving away from consulting firms to independent talent to deliver SOW

The RenAIssance: 2024’s Talent in Demand

Filling the AI skills gap is 2024's biggest trend. An increasing demand for AI and ML talent requires the right hard and soft skills for successful implementation - here's how businesses are finding the right mix of talent.

What Does it Mean to be "Agile"?

Why are there only are few companies that can really make the agile claim?

How to Build a Future-Proof Workforce

Traditional organisational structures are becoming completely ill-suited for the future needs and expectancies of the future workplace. It's now time to build for the future, and here's how:

Debunking the Myths of the Future Workplace

The future of the workplace is changing. Flexibility and innovation have become the driving forces behind business success, altering traditional business models and re-defining workplace expectations and realities.

High5 and Technology: Building an Industry-Leading Platform

The digital transformation of the High5 Platform to reshape the face of Talent Acquisition

Why is a Data-Driven Approach Important for Finding Talent

Hiring is slowing down as decision-making processes becomes tougher - a data driven approach guarantees speed, convenience and precision to talent acquisition processes.

Marketplaces and Staffing Providers: Celebrate the Difference

Companies wanting to make use of marketplaces for new talent requirements need to understand the differences between how talent marketplaces and traditional staffing solutions work.

Forget Quiet Hiring - The Extended Workforce is Loud and Clear

Companies need to build the extended workforce into their strategies

Digital Transformation - The Secret to Success

Why Management Consultancies Are Embracing the Extended Workforce

Why management consultancies are embracing the extended workforce

Embracing a Global Landscape

Remote working has now enabled wider talent pools around the world to open up - key skills can now be unlocked and accessed at a much faster rate to deliver on business-critical initiatives.

Reinventing Interim Leadership - it's all about getting things done

Say goodbye to the seat warmers; new interim leaders are focused on outcomes and implementing critical workstreams.

Skills Shortages are Slowing Down Digital Transformation

An inability to identify needed skills is the number one impediment to workforce transformation.

Steps to Successful Talent Marketplace Rollout

How to make talent marketplace adoption successful across the enterprise.

Soft Skills Matching - Why It's Important

The demand for soft skills has become a critical factor in bringing in the best talent to businesses.

Talent Decisions Need Talent Data

Using richer data to improve talent matching

The Rise of the Fractional Executive

Fractional hiring is one of the hottest workforce trends right now. What is a fractional executive? Find out how companies are tapping into a global pool of business leaders on-demand.

Talent Marketplaces and Permanent Talent - no big deal from Upwork

Using High5 for permanent requirements - why Upwork isn't unique in making the marketplace move.

Tech Transformation - Finding the Talent to Fuel Recovery Growth

One area in which technological innovation is expected to be heavily leveraged and depended upon, lies within the talent acquisition space.

The Value of Your Alumni

In a world of skills shortages and competition for talent, alumni are becoming an invaluable resource, seemingly hidden in plain sight, but waiting to be unleashed.

Talent Marketplaces in the Value Creation Process

Getting talent decisions right – especially at speed, across dozens of portfolio companies – is one of the stiffest challenges private equity firms are currently facing.

Why Flexible Businesses Deliver More

To prepare for the future of work, your business needs to be more flexible. And here’s why:

Unlocking the Power of the Extended Workforce

As employers consider the talent their organization needs to survive and thrive, many are beginning to leverage the external workforce to achieve this success.

Finding Independent Talent: 5 Reasons why Workforces are Going Global

Workforces are going increasingly going global – but why? How to find independent talent.

High5 & KSA: Vision 2030

High5 CEO, Sandeep Dhillon, visits Saudi Arabia as part of the Human Capability Initiative - read his insights into progress made in the region, and efforts made to foster a thriving freelance economy.

What are Talent Marketplaces?

What are Talent Marketplaces - the hottest workforce topic right now. Learn where to find a consultant marketplace.

The Importance of Providing Talent Feedback

Providing feedback to talent is a short term investment for a long term gain.

Most In-Demand Skills in 2024

A deep dive into our Talent Marketplace datasets to reveal the most in-demand skills in 2024.

Rolling Out Talent Marketplaces & Platforms

The decision to add Talent Marketplaces into an existing, and wider, ecosystem is just the start of the adoption process - find out what's involved

Time to Act? Talent Mobility in the New World of Work

Being agile means more than open-plan offices and improved work/life balance. Organizations need to leverage technology, data, and external and internal talent pools to achieve success.

What is the Extended Workforce?

The extended workforce can unlock new sources of value and avenues for growth for your business - find out how.

Marketplace Selection - Questions to Ask Your Prospective Supplier

70% of enterprises are considering using Talent Marketplaces. Here's the questions to ask and start the process