Elevate Financial Insights With Unified Planning and Consolidation
Today’s finance teams must work both faster and better, but too often are held back by the limits of their financial technology. Here's how to change that.
Workday Staff Writer
Read BioBob Hansen is a Workday staff writer, covering financial and workforce planning.
Today’s finance teams must work both faster and better, but too often are held back by the limits of their financial technology. Here's how to change that.
By joining together to plan, measure, and optimize talent, finance and HR can elevate workforce planning, taking it from a static exercise that attempts to guess future needs to an active process that’s able to adjust to constantly changing operational realities.
By envisioning and preparing for what’s ahead, organizations can be far more agile, proactive, and successful.
When decision-makers have the ability to understand what’s happening with the business now, they can accurately model what is likely to happen in the future.
Finance and HR routinely produce headcount numbers that don’t match—and that’s a problem.
For successful workforce planning, organizations must rethink their talent strategies to minimize skills gaps, maximize hiring investments, and better align talent with corporate objectives.
As countless businesses have discovered, adopting a culture of continuous planning helps unlock an agile future.
How can you get to the underlying financial and operational data that reveals what’s really driving the business? Discover how to overcome common barriers and where to best invest so you can adapt to change as it happens.
The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.
Finance leaders are in a critical position to help assess the options and impacts associated with returning to the workplace, including how the business can grow and react differently in the future.
Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?