Bob Hansen
Bob Hansen is a Workday staff writer, covering financial and workforce planning.
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.
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.
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.
Finance and HR routinely produce headcount numbers that don’t match—and that’s a problem.
Making financial planning a continuous, year-round process will improve your company’s agility and help it reach its strategic goals.
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.
A modern close process can accelerate business agility and create a frictionless, collaborative environment for accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
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.
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.
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.
Rolling forecasts can make your organization nimbler, able to seize potential opportunities, and better prepared for upcoming roadblocks.
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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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.