Business partnering is a phrase you'll hear spoken about in lots of different organisations and, as far as I'm aware, it started out mostly with Human Resources. Recently what we've started to see is that the idea of business partnering has moved beyond HR and has now been extended into all of the so-called support services in organisations. Departments like Finance, IT, Purchasing and so on might also find that they can benefit from a business partnering approach. So let's just think about what this really means…