Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

Why the Future of Finance is Built on Value Creation

The world is changing, really, really fast — stop me if you’ve heard this one before. That means organisations need the finance function to step up from the role of business partner and become a value creation partner. At Workday Rising Europe in Stockholm, finance leaders from Kainos, Monex and Veolia joined Workday’s co-president Robynne Sisco to get to the heart of the finance function’s changing role and what being a value creator really means.

Steve Dunne

Technology Innovation

Redefining Cloud Value in the Post-Pandemic World

Clare Hickie, CTO, EMEA at Workday, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic heightened business demand for a shift to the cloud, and how CIOs can prove the cloud’s value to their organisations.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

How N26 Is Delivering Digital Disruption Across Global Banking

On its journey to digital transformation, German neobank N26 is disrupting the banking market and paving the way for a new generation of financial services companies.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Formula 1 Puts Pedal to the Metal on Digital Acceleration

Chris Roberts, head of IT infrastructure at Formula 1, shares the drivers for success in the racing organisation’s digital journey, and how it has led the pack as an “innovation machine.”

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

How the C-Suite Shaped the PGA European Tour’s Digital Drive

The PGA European Tour’s chief financial officer, chief technology officer, and chief people officer discuss finance, IT, and HR transformation against the backdrop of a global pandemic.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

Hospitality Industry Finance Leader Discusses Managing Risk and Agility During the Pandemic

Neil Gribben, vice president of accounting and control at hospitality and leisure company Belmond, met with Workday’s Tim Wakeford to discuss how finance has pushed forward with digital acceleration during the pandemic.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Webber Wentzel: Driving Innovation for South Africa’s Legal Sector

The CIO at Webber Wentzel, a prominent full-service law firm based in South Africa, talked to us about how the firm leveraged technology to navigate these unprecedented times, and its roadmap for the future.

Steve Dunne

Finance

Preparing Financial Services Companies for the "Never Normal”

At Workday Industry Insights EMEA, experts, customers, and industry commentators discussed how financial services organisations are embracing digital to deal with a future that is anything but normal.

Steve Dunne

Getting Digital: How the Pandemic Inspired the Next Chapter in Retail Transformation

At Workday Industry Insights EMEA, experts, customers, and industry commentators discussed retail’s digital acceleration and the trends that prevailed during the recent tumultuous period.

Steve Dunne

Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

Dopamine, Motivation, and the Science Behind Not Giving Up

At the Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, Shivvy Jervis, a futurist, speaker, and broadcaster, discussed her research on human motivation and how business leaders can best engage an increasingly distributed workforce.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

3 Workday Customers Share Their Paths to Digital Acceleration

At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, leaders in finance, HR, and technology discussed how they’re reducing complexity, engaging employees, and driving innovation through digital transformation efforts.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community

Primark: Fashioning the Future of HR in the Retail Workplace

At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, fashion retailer Primark shared how it brought together effective HR approaches and technology to move with agility, engage with employees, and prepare for the future.

Steve Dunne

Finance

A CFO's Guide to Accelerating Digital Initiatives

How can a business accelerate its move to digital finance in a post-pandemic world? Here are four areas that are driving value, and should be on every finance leader’s radar in 2021 and beyond.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community

Workday Industry Insights Europe: How Professional Services Is Preparing for the Post-Pandemic World

At our recent digital event, finance executives and industry analysts discussed how the pandemic has impacted the pace of digital change in the professional services industry.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community

CIO View: Pushing the Button on Digital Acceleration

Based in Germany with more than 670 subsidiaries globally, ThyssenKrupp is one of the world's largest steel producers. During our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World, ThyssenKrupp’s CIO shared how the company embarked on a transformation programme to accelerate its shift to digital in 2020.

Steve Dunne

Finance Planning

How Finance Must Rethink Skills to Thrive in the Digital Era

The post-pandemic world, when it arrives, will transform many aspects of business as usual. As a result, CEOs will turn to finance leaders who not only have accounting experience, but also wider operational backgrounds and a broader mix of business experience.

Steve Dunne

Finance Planning

How Intelligent Automation Will Transform the Finance Function

As businesses seek to rebound from the global pandemic, the rise of intelligent automation will change the way organizations operate forever. This article examines how technologies such as machine learning will reshape the office of the CFO.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

How Veolia Unlocked Finance Agility During a Global Crisis

Even during a pandemic, many forward-thinking businesses have continued with their digital transformation initiatives. Yael Leblanc, group finance transformation director at Veolia, a global environmental services company headquartered in France, discusses why the shift to a new finance system proceeded as planned despite the global lockdown.

Steve Dunne

Finance Planning

3 Finance Insights Guiding the Way to Business Recovery

Leaders need good quality data to make real-time decisions and steer their businesses on a path to normality. This article looks at three key insights finance leaders should be delivering to the business, and why they are so important today.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

How Equiniti Reshaped Finance and HR with Workday

As businesses rebound from the outbreak of COVID-19, the need for agility intensifies. Robert Bloor, group financial controller at Equiniti, describes how his organisation transformed its finance and HR systems to support continuous change.

Steve Dunne