Analyse how people practice connects with other areas of an organisation and supports wider people and organisational strategies. Assess how people practice connects with other areas of the organisation (e.g. Finance). Horizontal integration of strategy might be important here. Then consider how people practice can support wider people and organisational strategies; inevitably this will be by putting the employee at the centre. How can people practice also help the organisation achieve its strategy through vertical integration? Support might be through policy development, legislative compliance, recruitment, learning and development etc.