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Analytics and Insights
News and guidance on using data-driven insights to make better decisions.
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How CFOs Can Use AI to Navigate FX Turbulence
Forward-thinking finance leaders are turning to AI as they realize the traditional playbook for managing foreign exchange risk is outdated.
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The Secret Weapon Top CFOs Use to Boost Profits
Most effective finance leaders use a deep, hands-on understanding of the entire business—beyond just financial reports—to create value and drive long-term success
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Power Partnership: How CFOs and CIOs Can Co-Lead Digital Transformation
Finance and data leaders should think about how to enable true collaboration to develop a lasting competitive advantage for their organizations
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New Research Signals a Talent Drain Hiding in Plain Sight
We’ve gathered insights from the Workday platform to understand the current state of the workforce. What we found points to a triple threat for talent retention, and leaders can’t afford to ignore this workforce signal.
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Data-Driven Decisions: How CFOs Can Use Analytics for Competitive Advantage
More than ever, finance leaders must possess a broader skill set, including the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and provide insights that inform critical business decisions and create value.
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Financial Consolidation and Close Process: A Guide
Financial consolidation and close is more than a reporting cycle—it’s a test of how connected, agile, and future-ready finance really is. Modernizing the process is the key to moving faster with confidence.
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Future-Proofing Finance: Insights From Workday CFO Zane Rowe
Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks about the importance of agility, technology, and self-care in a finance organization poised to thrive into the future.
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CFO Playbook: 25 Strategies to Counter Declining Consumer Confidence
Finance leaders must think about how their organizations should respond in the face of future uncertainty, both in the short-term and beyond.
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Big Data and Data Mining: How to Handle Large Datasets
Big data and data mining are hot topics—but how do they relate to each other? Discover how data mining transforms raw big data into actionable knowledge, enabling companies to identify trends and gain a competitive edge.
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The CFO as Storyteller: Weaving Compelling Narratives From Financial Data
Explore how modern CFOs can transform financial data into powerful narratives, engage stakeholders, and drive strategic decisions with storytelling acumen.
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Key Financial Services Trends to Watch Right Now
Uncover pivotal trends shaping financial services in 2025. Learn how AI, embedded finance, and personalized wellness strategies are crucial for financial professionals and analysts.
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How HR Leaders Can Thrive in a Complicated Job Market
Workday metrics show that employers need to prioritize key talent retention, internal mobility, and clear communication of business goals to successfully navigate the evolving labor landscape.
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From CFO to Chief Value Officer: A Strategic Evolution
Unlock the potential of CFOs as chief value officers, balancing traditional roles with strategic foresight to drive value creation.
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4 Reasons an Employee Engagement Solution Is Key
For businesses to remain competitive during times of uncertainty and transformation, understanding employee sentiment is critical. That’s where employee engagement software gives you the edge.
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How Workday CFO Zane Rowe Took a Career Detour and Found Success
Sometimes taking a position not normally associated with finance pays outsized dividends. Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks career, customers, AI, and finance in a CFO Thought Leader podcast.
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How 4 Factors Power Robust Growth: Leaders Reveal Their Organizational Success Secrets
A solid strategy, an emphasis on customer satisfaction, and having the right people in the right roles are just some of the elements that set companies up to maximize shareholder value. Executives from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, and Snowflake share their insights.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
We’re excited to be recognized as a Leader in this report once again. Workday Illuminate reflects our relentless commitment to innovation around how we deliver AI across the Workday platform to empower our customers with increased efficiency and deeper insights, unlocking the ability to seize new opportunities for growth.
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Workday Podcast: Compliance: Less Pain, More Gain
If there’s one thing about financial services regulation that never changes, it’s the fact that regulation always changes. In this installment of our podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk about not just catching up or keeping up with regulation, not just getting ahead of it, but also about making it work to create value for financial services organizations.
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The Future of the CFO: Generative AI as a Finance Growth Catalyst
As AI’s capabilities grow, finance leaders are best positioned to take charge of the technology to create value in new ways.
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Manufacturing Industry Outlook: 4 Ways to Improve Skills, Supply Chains, and Visibility
After the roller-coaster ride of the last few years, manufacturers are eager to shore up supply chain volatility, retain and upskill talent, and lean on technology to be better prepared for transformative events.
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Vendor Management System (VMS) Buyer’s Guide: Streamlining Stakeholder Evaluation
Discover an easy way to determine which stakeholders can help you identify the right VMS for your business.
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How Tech Innovation Can Help Save Taxpayer Dollars
With billions of dollars spent on outdated legacy systems every year, the U.S. federal government has the opportunity to become more efficient, agile, and impactful by modernizing its technology.
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Workday Hiring Trends Report: The “Big Stay” Is Poised to Become the “Big Leave”
Metrics from Workday customers indicate the hiring slowdown may be coming to an end. We explore how that impacts organizations’ talent strategies and why that makes “retaining” the new “recruiting.”
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Why Technology Industry CFOs Must Be Ready to Drive Change
Tech industry CFOs must take a central role in technology transformation projects. Justin Joseph examines three critical areas where they can drive change through modernization.
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Data Is the Key to Unlocking Tomorrow’s Workforce
To build the federal workforce of the future, agencies must first have a holistic understanding of their current skills gaps.
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What It Takes for a CFO to Go From Scorekeeper to Futurist
Value creation increasingly has become a key part of the CFO role. In a recent webinar, finance leaders from AICPA-CIMA, Aon, McKinsey & Company, and Workday shared their insights on what it takes to shape the future.
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First Half 2023 Hiring Trends: Slowdown and Stagnation
The first half of 2023 has seen big changes in the labor market, with reverberating effects on the workforce including signs of decreased engagement. Based on metrics from the Workday platform—which shows more applications for fewer jobs and voluntary turnover declining by 20% compared to the same time frame last year—we’ve pulled together key trends and insights to help HR leaders chart their course for the near-term future.
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How an Increasingly Competitive Job Market Is Impacting the Employee Experience
We're in a different labor market, with fewer job requisitions and increased competition among job seekers. Read on to learn how to attract top talent and cultivate higher levels of employee resilience in this new environment.
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How Organizations Benefit From Nurturing and Empowering Women Finance Leaders
Laura Newinski of KPMG, Juliet Grabowski of Boston Consulting Group, Sheryl Estrada of Fortune, and Workday Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor examine ways businesses can boost innovation, resiliency, and performance by creating more inclusive and supportive workplaces.
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Taking Flight With Workday: How Southwest Airlines Is Scaling and Maturing HR Functions
Senior leaders in people and technology at Southwest Airlines share the game-changing impacts of partnering with Workday.
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3 Trends That Will Reshape Accounting and Finance in 2023
Technology—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—will play a significant role in helping finance leaders retain talent, achieve accounting automation, and create value for the enterprise. Philippa Lawrence, chief accounting officer and vice president at Workday, lays out what she sees on the horizon.
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Shaping Our Future: Trends We’re Seeing in Hiring and Developing Internal Talent
Last year saw significant change for our customers, and those changes are reflected in how they used Workday products—specifically in hiring trends globally and by industry. Our findings, based on metrics from the Workday platform, provide insights into momentum around growing internal talent and what it all might mean for companies and job seekers in the year ahead.
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Survey: CFOs Plan to Boost Spending on Skills and Technology in 2023
An annual global sentiment study by the CFO Alliance found strong optimism among finance leaders at midmarket enterprises, a desire to invest in talent, and a drive to improve processes in order to achieve growth objectives.
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Workday Global Study: Hospitality Leaders Share How to Thrive in an Era of Change
Research from Workday shows how hospitality leaders can accelerate their digital strategy to plan for future success.
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IDC Expert Shares Insights on Healthcare’s Digital-Focused Future
Leading healthcare organizations will continue to embrace hybrid work, AI, and ESG in the coming years, new research shows. Mutaz Shegewi, research director at IDC, discusses how new investments in digital technology will be crucial and shares what’s coming next in healthcare.
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How CFOs Are Driving Value With Forward-Thinking KPIs
Finance leaders are increasingly relying on forward-looking and customer-centric key performance indicators to drive business success.
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What CFOs Need to Prepare for Uncertainty Now and Into the Future
More than ever, successful finance leaders must think about how to improve organizational agility by integrating the right talent, tools, and technology to thrive in any economic climate.
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Workday Study: Building the New Retail Front-Line Experience
The “Great Resignation” has slowed down, but employee burnout persists as retailers continue to try filling essential roles. In a recent study, “Empathy and Empowerment: The New Front-Line Experience” findings show, some leaders are blazing a hopeful path amid turnover woes.
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Workday Podcast: Hacking Bureaucracy to Drive Change in Government
Making change happen can be difficult, especially within the federal government. Marina Nitze, former CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, advocate for foster care reform, and author of the new book “Hack Your Bureaucracy,” discusses how she helped solve seemingly impossible challenges in governmental and private organizations to create lasting change.
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Workday Podcast: How People and Culture Drive an Organization’s ESG Success
People—perhaps the most important elements of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) transformation—are often overlooked. In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Andrea Walsh, global ESG and sustainability leader at consulting firm Korn Ferry, talks about how business leaders can help enable successful ESG initiatives.
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Workday Global Study: Professional Services Leaders Say Digital Transformation Is Key to Resilience
Only 38% of professional services leaders say their organization is digitally well equipped to ensure business continuity in times of crisis. We talk with Workday’s Patrice Cappello and Justin Joseph to learn what this new research means and how organizations can accelerate their digital transformation to adapt to any change.
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Workday Global Study: CEOs Are Most Ambitious About Digital Transformation
In our global survey, we found that CEOs are the most ambitious members of the C-suite when it comes to digital revenue targets, but poor-quality data holds back confident decision-making.
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Workday Podcast: Understanding the Finance Role in ESG Transformation
As organizations around the globe continue to ramp up environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts, the finance function is already taking the lead in creating and evaluating underlying processes. On the Workday Podcast, Brigham McNaughton, a partner at PwC, talks about ESG trends and what role finance plays.
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Workday Podcast: How Comcast Turns Data Into Insights With Workday Prism Analytics
While data may be free-flowing and abundant for HR leaders, there isn’t always a clear path to gaining real insights from it. Jay Chang, executive director of HR analytics at Comcast, joined us to talk about how the company uses Workday Prism Analytics to turn data into insights.
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Higher Education: A Look Ahead to 2026
A whopping 96% of college students say a high-quality digital experience is important to their campus satisfaction. Experts from Accenture and Workday recently partnered to explain what this means for the higher education industry’s future.
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Workday Global Study: Financial Services Industry Leaders Share Their 3 Biggest Digital Opportunities
Our survey found that only 38% of financial services leaders are confident in their ability to make data-informed decisions in real time. Workday’s Pete Rutman discusses what this means for the industry and its digital growth.
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CFOs Striving for Greater Relevance Should Consider These Top Priorities
The best CFOs understand the need for advanced technologies—and teams skilled in using them—to deliver better insights that strengthen the business and create value. Learn how finance leaders can map out a successful future for their organizations.
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To Boost Agility (Even More), Retailers Must Double Down on Data
To survive (and thrive) in a fast-paced world, retailers must invest more than ever in the power of data and insights.
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How Workday Is Delivering Next-Generation Skills Technology at Scale
At Workday, we believe understanding employees’ skills is essential to operating a business and imperative for the future of work. We’re introducing next-generation technology that amplifies the impact of Skills Cloud, helping our customers strengthen their foundation as a skills-based organization.
