Your wider HR organization
Full diagnostic
Ikona Systems Diagnostic
Broad discovery for when problems are connected and you need to see how they relate. Leave with an assessment, priorities, business cases, and a roadmap.
Work with Ikona
What you can commission, and how to start.
Ikona Analytics does discovery, design, requirements, and governance for enterprise HR. Your team or your platform partner builds and runs the systems. Every scope is set with you, including what you receive and what you keep.
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Ways to start
Three ways in.
Not every question needs a full diagnostic. Start as wide or as narrow as the decision in front of you.
A named question
Focused engagement
One decision, workflow, or domain
Start from a specific decision, workflow, domain, or design need. ISD Lite is one focused option, when a single domain fits its defined scope.
Earlier evidence, a new question
Continue from earlier work
Build on what is known
Check existing evidence for relevance and freshness, then add only the discovery the next question needs.
Timing depends on scope. Your proposal sets the schedule before any commitment.
What you can commission
Five kinds of work.
Each one produces something specific, with a clear split between what Ikona does and what your team or partner does.
Select one to see the detail
What you receive
Work your team can use.
Illustrative examples. Your scope sets the actual outputs.
Business case
The investment, the evidence behind it, and the options compared.
Roadmap
Priorities in sequence, with dependencies and owners.
Process map
How the work flows today, including exceptions and handoffs.
Requirements pack
What a build team needs: the questions, data, rules, and safeguards.
Organizational context
Findings organized and traced to their sources, ready for the next question.
What you keep
Your agreement sets what you keep: the outputs, export, hosting, and any continuing access to the knowledge base. We agree those terms with you before the work starts.
Why Ikona
Four things, together.
Context that records miss
How work actually happens: the exceptions, workarounds, and reasons behind decisions that systems and reports don’t hold.
Practitioners who interpret it
Senior people who have held HR, analytics, and technology roles test the findings and the conclusions.
Outputs a team can act on
Business cases, roadmaps, designs, and requirements, not a summary of what was heard.
Knowledge that keeps working
The evidence stays organized, so later work can reuse it, check it, and build on it.
When the consultants are already in the building
Glove-on-hand consulting
A 100-person implementation team is about to land on your HR organization. Glove-on-hand is our client-side representation model: senior practitioners who pair off with your consulting firm, own your requirements, and build the HR case while the program runs.
FAQ
What buyers ask before engaging
No. Ikona does discovery, design, requirements, and governance. Your team or your platform partner does the technical implementation. We agree that split with you at the start, and we can support the program while it runs.
It depends on scope. A full diagnostic covers your wider HR organization and takes longer than a focused engagement on one decision or domain. Your proposal sets the schedule before any commitment.
Cost depends on scope. Every proposal puts the figure in writing before any commitment.
Your agreement sets it. The outputs, export, hosting, and any continuing access to the knowledge base are agreed with you before the work starts.
Sometimes. Later work reuses what still holds, checks what has changed, and adds interviews only where the new question needs them.
Yes. Our published partner principles commit us to recommending what is right for your organization. You can read them on our Partners page.
Let’s talk
Scope the first piece of work.
Tell us the decision or workflow, the evidence you already have, who is involved, and your timing. We’ll suggest where to start.