The pattern is the product.
Ikona does not deliver decks that depreciate the moment they are presented. We build a living knowledge asset that compounds every time a client comes back.
Selected engagements
A sample of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 HR organizations Ikona has worked with.
Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company · ~140,000 employees
Digital HR Transformation
The HR digital team needed an unflinching read on where they stood, and the credibility to act on it. Ikona turned 33 candid leader interviews into more than 1,600 pages of evidence, scored 31 data capabilities against 27 peer organizations on a 1,000-point scale, and mapped nearly 100 prioritized moves across five dimensions of the function. It handed the team a roadmap even the skeptics rallied behind.
“Ikona changed the mindset of the naysayers.”
- 33
- Stakeholder interviews
- 27
- Organizations benchmarked
- 1,000-pt
- Capability scorecard
- ~100
- Roadmap recommendations
Fortune 100 beverage company · ~70,000 employees
HR Data Governance
As the business leaned harder on people data, the team needed governance it could trust and defend. Ikona benchmarked their practices against 9 peers, drew on 35 interviews and 1,700+ pages of evidence, and assessed the function across 7 dimensions of data governance. The result was a set of clear guidelines and a sequenced, 26-action plan to put them in place over the year ahead.
- 9
- Peers benchmarked
- 35
- Stakeholder interviews
- 1,700+
- Pages of intelligence
- 26
- Actions over 12 months
Fortune 500 automotive supplier · ~38,000 employees
AI Service Management
This supplier saw a real opportunity in AI-assisted HR service delivery, but wanted proof before investing. Over 16 weeks, Ikona drew on 45 interviews and 2,500+ pages of evidence to model the true costs, size the opportunities, and build 5 business cases for where AI would pay off. They moved forward with evidence in hand, not just ambition.
- 45
- Structured interviews
- 2,500+
- Pages of intelligence
- 16
- Weeks, full Phase 0
- 5
- Business cases produced
Fortune 500 Global pharmaceutical company
HR Technology Rationalization
Years of add-ons had left HR running on 500+ overlapping systems, with no clear view of what they cost. In 8 weeks Ikona ran a four-part diagnostic, 62 interviews and 3,000+ pages of transcript scored on a 1,000-point heatmap, to decide what to keep, retire, or consolidate, and where AI could safely add value. The sprawl became a costed, defensible transformation plan.
- 62
- Interviews conducted
- 8
- Weeks of discovery
- 3,000+
- Pages of transcript
- 476K
- Words captured
Fortune 500 materials science company
HR Operating Model & Roadmap
A new CHRO needed to ready a global HR function for a growth phase, four months into the seat, with the basics still hard to pull together after a fast systems rollout. Ikona ran the diagnostic and brought leaders around a single coverage-and-maturity grid, which pinpointed employee data management as the upstream fix that unlocked everything downstream. From it came a defensible two-year roadmap: governance and shared services first, then clean data and talent insight, then AI on a foundation ready for it.
“Facts are friendly. When you have the data in front of you, you can really see where the opportunity lies.”
- 4 months
- In seat to roadmap
- 3 mandates
- Business · function · talent
- 2-year
- Sequenced roadmap
- Governance first
- The sequencing call
A deck depreciates. An asset compounds.
Most diagnostics peak the day they are presented, then lose value as the organization moves on. Each Ikona engagement instead adds to a living knowledge asset, so the second business case is faster than the first, and the tenth is faster than the fifth.
See what a compounding knowledge asset looks like for your team
Every Ikona engagement is led by founding partners who have held the roles you are trying to transform.