Bob Hansen
Bob Hansen is a senior content marketing manager at Workday, and covers the latest trends and innovations in financial and workforce planning.
Bob has more than 20 years of experience in content marketing and strategy. Prior to joining Workday, Bob was at Adaptive Insights, where he was responsible for conceptualizing and producing strategic content for campaign initiatives across multiple business units. Previously, he held editorial roles at a variety of leading technology firms, including HP, LSI, and Mercury Interactive.
The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.
Continuous planning is more than faster forecasting—it encompasses specific planning practices that catalyze change and drive business agility across the organization.
Although most senior decision-makers would agree that planning has a direct impact on performance, the signs of outdated planning are distributed and often hard to spot.
A successful finance transformation reduces reliance on manual, outdated, and low-value processes, empowering FP&A teams to focus on strategic finance initiatives.
Healthcare’s supply chain challenges aren’t going away—in fact, they’re becoming more unpredictable. Here’s how organizations can respond to ongoing disruption with precision, agility, and resilience.
Faster, more confident decision-making starts with real-time access to data spanning the enterprise—so that finance can scenario plan in tune with a rapidly changing world. Shutterstock and Vancouver Coastal Health share their journeys to better 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.
At Workday, we’re building more capabilities into our financial management and planning solutions this year that leverage generative AI to boost productivity and efficiency. Learn more.
Procurement teams play an important role in their company’s ability to find efficiencies, trim costs, and drive digital transformation. Learn how KeyBank—with 2,000 vendors and more than 5,000 contracts in motion—adopted a unified source-to-pay platform to push its procurement transformation forward.
Learn how to ensure an agile finance function so your business can address change as it happens.
Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that Workday Adaptive Planning can have on an organization. See the infographic for the results.
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.
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.
By envisioning and preparing for what’s ahead, organizations can be far more agile, proactive, and successful.
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.
Combat analysis paralysis by first assessing your current planning tools and then imagining an ideal partnership.
Organizations that connect their workforce planning with their finance planning are better able to chart their futures in an ever-changing digital world.
Effective workforce planning unlocks ways to address emerging talent requirements, including smarter matching between talent supply and demand.
Enterprise performance management (EPM) software enables companies to monitor, measure, and adjust performance across all business units.
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.