New Association of Finance Professionals Report: A Call for Business Agility
Learn how to ensure an agile finance function so your business can address change as it happens.
Bob Hansen
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Bob Hansen
Bob Hansen is a Workday staff writer, covering financial and workforce planning.
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Infographic: Learn How Workday Adaptive Planning Customers Realized 249% ROI
Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that Workday Adaptive Planning can have on an organization. See the infographic for the results.
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Bridging the Gap Between Finance and HR Delivers Positive Business Outcomes
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.
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To Build a Better Supply Chain, Planning and Sourcing Teams Must Collaborate
A new report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services finds that organizations that leverage collaborative technology between the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and the sourcing and procurement functions can optimize their supply chain.
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How Can You Make the Switch to Continuous Planning?
By envisioning and preparing for what’s ahead, organizations can be far more agile, proactive, and successful.
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Digital Transformation and the Role of Finance in a Fast-Changing World
In today’s highly volatile business environment, only modern finance-enabled companies can keep pace with change, drive innovation, and manage costs. In a new podcast, learn why scenario planning, continuous planning, and rolling forecasts are central to this effort.
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Is Now the Time to Move to a Cloud Planning Platform?
Combat analysis paralysis by first assessing your current planning tools and then imagining an ideal partnership.
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Uniting Finance and Human Resources for Better Planning
Organizations that connect their workforce planning with their finance planning are better able to chart their futures in an ever-changing digital world.
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How Integrated Workforce Planning and Analytics Improve Business Agility
Effective workforce planning unlocks ways to address emerging talent requirements, including smarter matching between talent supply and demand.
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What Is Enterprise Performance Management?
Enterprise performance management (EPM) software enables companies to monitor, measure, and adjust performance across all business units.
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How Continuous Planning Enables Business Agility
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.
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What Is Financial Management Reporting?
Timely, accurate financial management reporting helps business leaders make informed decisions based on their organization’s financial health. Here are four steps you can take to improve your reporting process and increase agility.
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How FP&A Can Address the Challenges of Poor-Quality Data
A new report, “FP&A Guide: Get Your Data Right,” focuses on how financial planning and analysis teams can access more reliable data to produce useful insights.
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How to Solve the Challenges of Headcount Reconciliation
Finance and HR routinely produce headcount numbers that don’t match—and that’s a problem.
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How to Make Financial Planning a Year-Round Process
Making financial planning a continuous, year-round process will improve your company’s agility and help it reach its strategic goals.
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A Future-Ready Workforce Calls for Companywide Planning
For successful workforce planning, organizations must rethink their talent strategies to minimize skills gaps, maximize hiring investments, and better align talent with corporate objectives.
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Continuous Planning Catapults Finance Forward
As countless businesses have discovered, adopting a culture of continuous planning helps unlock an agile future.
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Why an Intelligent Data Foundation Is Key to Becoming Decision-Ready
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.
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To Plan Better, Close Smarter
A modern close process can accelerate business agility and create a frictionless, collaborative environment for accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
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The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System
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.
