Leadership training is one of the most common investments organizations make, but it is also one of the easiest to get wrong. Many companies track attendance, but few measure whether managers actually lead differently afterward. In this episode of HR […]
Monthly Research Recap | April 2026
Upcoming Events: PrismHR Live 2026 | June 14 – 16th, 2026 PrismHR LIVE brings together HR service providers, PEOs, payroll organizations, and HCM technology leaders for a focused exchange on workforce management, compliance, benefits administration, and platform innovation. Representing 3Sixty […]
Benchmark Report: State of HR Compliance 2026 – Benchmark Findings on Confidence, Complexity, and the AI Effect
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Across a survey of 500 U.S. professionals involved in HR and HR-related decision-making, organizations report strong confidence in their ability to manage HR compliance. Nearly three-quarters of respondents say they’re satisfied with how well their organization stays on […]
The Quiet Death of the SDR: Why Some GTM Teams Are Letting Marketing Reclaim the Pipeline
The Signal People buy from people they trust. That’s not new. What is changing is when that trust gets built, and who is responsible for creating it. In a growing number of go-to-market teams, that responsibility is shifting earlier in the process. Not to sales, but to marketing. The SDR […]
The Hamster Wheel of Reorganization: Why Solution Providers Are Struggling to Win
In today’s software and technology landscape, one question continues to surface in our conversations with vendors and service providers: who is truly winning? Historically, this was a relatively straightforward question to answer. There were always clear market leaders, organizations that […]
Anatomy of a Decision: When Marketing Owns the Pipeline – How Fuel50 Rebuilt Its Go-to-Market Operating Model
From Alignment to Elimination For years, B2B companies have tried to solve the same problem: how to get sales and marketing aligned. Fifteen years ago, when I was at HubSpot, we called it smarketing. Weekly meetings, shared definitions, handoff agreements. […]
The Growing Gap Between Vendor Messaging and Organizational Reality
At 3Sixty Insights, we have a dedicated practice focused on HR, Benefits, and Payroll. Over the past several years, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations in this space position themselves in the market. The messaging has evolved […]
Case Study: Turning Time & Attendance into a Strategic Asset
What You Need to Know Mergers and acquisitions are a powerful growth strategy, particularly from a workforce perspective. Acquiring an established business allows a parent company to inherit an experienced workforce in a new territory rather than building one from […]
Why Some Restaurants Win and Others Struggle
For the better part of the last decade, Wednesdays have followed a simple pattern in my household. Somewhere between the workday winding down and the week feeling just long enough, my family and I head out to dinner. It is […]
Monthly Research Recap | March 2026
Recent Research: Research Agenda: Bridging Leadership and Labor – 3Sixty Insights’ 2026 Combined Workforce Agenda This Combined Workforce Agenda outlines the key research priorities for 2026 from 3Sixty Insights, focusing on how organizations can bridge leadership strategy and employee experience […]
Why AI Governance Requires Narrative Alignment
A Simple Example That Isn’t So Simple Pulling on another thread from Conga Connect 2026, one of the more interesting conversations I had during the week was with Geoff Webb, VP Product and Portfolio Marketing at Conga. While much of […]
Market Alert: Inside Conga’s Purple Pivot – A B2B Rebrand Done Right
I was at Conga Connect 2026 last week and had the chance to witness something you don’t see very often in B2B technology. A brand redesign revealed live to customers. Not teased on social media. Not rolled out quietly through […]
Research Agenda: Bridging Leadership and Labor – 3Sixty Insights’ 2026 Combined Workforce Agenda
The future of work is no longer a theoretical concept touching artificial intelligence, remote work or skills transformation. Instead, it has become an operational reality at a time when managers are stretched beyond capacity, employee engagement is declining, compliance complexity […]
Three Signals About the Future of Revenue Execution from Conga Connect 2026
I spent this past week at Conga Connect 2026, speaking with customers, executives, and operators across the revenue ecosystem. The brand reveal will likely be the moment most attendees remember from the event. I covered that story separately. But […]
Infographic: How One Company Rebuilt a Fragile SDR Engine with Apollo.io
This 3Sixty Insights infographic examines how one organization rebuilt a fragile SDR engine after realizing that its outbound motion had become overly dependent on email and weighed down by a costly “Franken-stack” of tools such as ZoomInfo, Groove, and Gong. […]
Infographic: 3x Pipeline, 80% Lower Costs – Rethinking the Modern Sales Stack
This infographic, based on analysis from Kyle James, examines the hidden cost of the typical “Franken-stack” sales environment where multiple disconnected tools handle data, engagement, calling, and analytics. This fragmentation creates a significant productivity drain as teams spend hours each […]
The Web Is Forking Again
Last week I wrote that SaaS isn’t dying. It’s being sorted. Thin workflow tools are under pressure, systems of record are becoming infrastructure, and the era of easy multiple expansion is behind us. That conversation was about repricing. This one is about rewiring. Underneath the market […]
#HRTechChat: David Edwards on the “Last Mile” from Data to Decisions
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Nicole Roberts (Senior Analyst & Advisor, 3Sixty Insights) is joined by David Edwards—strategic workforce planning practitioner, advisor, and author of The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook—for a candid conversation about the gap between SWP theory and […]
#HRTechChat: Aman Kaur-Shaik on Why AI Adoption in HR Starts with Knowledge, Data, and Culture
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Dylan Teggart speaks with Aman Kaur-Shaik—HR Director at Nutrien, member of the 3SixtyInsights Global Executive Advisory Council, and a 2024 Global Top 100 HR Executive—about what it really takes for organizations to adopt AI successfully. […]
Monthly Research Recap | February 2026
Recent Research: Research Agenda: Workforce Strategy, HR Enablement & HR Technology in an AI-Augmented World Nicole Roberts’ research agenda examines how workforce strategy, HR enablement, and HR technology are evolving as AI and automation reshape how work is performed and […]
