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.
Bob Hansen
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Bob Hansen
Bob Hansen is a Workday staff writer, covering financial and workforce planning.
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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The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System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.
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How to Recalibrate and Plan for a New Normal in Healthcare
The pandemic brought a large dose of uncertainty. But as many in the healthcare industry were still reacting to the initial blow, Vera Whole Health quickly pivoted to deliver its advanced primary care model with increased telehealth services.
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For HelloFresh, Business Agility Is Always on the Menu
When Germany-based HelloFresh needed to ensure it could remain nimble and make informed decisions quickly, it turned to Workday Adaptive Planning. This agility has become especially important during a time when meal kits have emerged as a popular alternative to restaurant dining and grocery shopping.
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Step Up Your FP&A Game with Rolling Forecasts
Rolling forecasts can make your organization nimbler, able to seize potential opportunities, and better prepared for upcoming roadblocks.
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The 5 Key Pillars of Finance Digital Transformation
New research sheds light on the key pillars of finance digital transformation, including cloud planning platforms, automation, data optimization, predictive analysis, and modern planning processes.
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CFO Checklist: Guiding Your Business Through a Successful Return to Work
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.
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3 Words for a COVID-19 World: ‘Flexible Budget Variance’
Flexible budget variance techniques help you create budget forecasts that make sense in a time of disruption, making it easy to course correct when needed.
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3 Steps for Planning in a Changing World
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?
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Reforecasting Amid Upheaval: Best Practices for Financial and Workforce Planning
Our team of finance professionals shares tips for dealing with revenue shocks and workforce and capacity planning when income is hard to predict, and strategies for emerging from this pandemic in a position of strength.
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That Annual Budget You Started Jan. 2? It’s Already Obsolete.
If you’re like the average business, it takes your finance team 77 days to complete an annual budget. Read this blog to find out about a faster, better way.
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Best Practices from Finance Teams in Biotech and Pharma
Nearly 75% of life sciences CFOs are asked to take on wider operational leadership roles. Here’s how FP&A teams can help CFOs make data-driven decisions.
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5 Ways FP&A Can Build Better Inter-Departmental Relationships
Ready to enable better collaboration between FP&A and other departments? Here are five common hurdles and how you can work to overcome them.
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How to Improve Your Reconciliation Process
In a recent webinar, recapped here, we showcased several ways to improve account reconciliation by modernizing your FP&A processes.
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