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Hospitality Industry Finance Leader Discusses Managing Risk and Agility During the Pandemic

Neil Gribben, vice president of accounting and control at hospitality and leisure company Belmond, met with Workday’s Tim Wakeford to discuss how finance has pushed forward with digital acceleration during the pandemic.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Webber Wentzel: Driving Innovation for South Africa’s Legal Sector

The CIO at Webber Wentzel, a prominent full-service law firm based in South Africa, talked to us about how the firm leveraged technology to navigate these unprecedented times, and its roadmap for the future.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Human Resources

Embrace the Opportunity to Reinvent, Reimagine, and Reenergize Your Workforce

Leena Nair, chief human resources officer at multinational company Unilever, spoke with Ashley Goldsmith, chief people officer at Workday, about the opportunities ahead to pioneer the needs of a changing workforce.

Jillian Ogawa

Customers and Community Planning

Increasing Finance Operations Efficiency at First Sentier Investors

When First Sentier Investors was acquired, company leaders only had six months to stand up an all-new financial management platform. The CFO of First Sentier Investors shares how the company transformed its reporting, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting processes in record time.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

How Workday Student Is Transforming the Student Experience

Matt Sherman, our general manager of Workday Student, shares highlights about our student system and the momentum we’re seeing as more and more higher education institutions look to transform and elevate the student experience.

Matt Sherman

Customers and Community Human Resources

Why the Skills Imperative Is a Post-Pandemic Business Priority for European Businesses

How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the skills businesses will need to thrive in the future? This article looks at how organisations across Europe must embrace the skills imperative and provide continuous development of their workforce to be successful in the post-pandemic world.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

How European Finance Leaders Are Preparing for a Post-Pandemic World

As businesses across Europe take the first tentative steps toward normality following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is now turning to how to prepare for the future. Finance leaders from Workday customer companies discuss resilience, digital transformation, and some of the lessons learned.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Stout Drives Growth Through Digitization

Jon Leins, finance and accounting director at global investment bank and advisory firm Stout, explains why his team decided to replace more than 10 legacy systems with Workday in one big-bang deployment—and how its new enterprise management cloud is delivering game-changing efficiencies.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community

Growing With Workday: Retail and Hospitality Leaders Share Their Stories

At a Workday digital event, Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Sprouts and Shake Shack shared how Workday supported them through pandemic disruption—and is helping them move forward with a positive outlook.

Jeremiah Barba

Customers and Community Finance

Drury Hotels Launches Holistic Digital Transformation

By combining a big-picture perspective of the company’s needs with best practices, Drury Hotels increased collaboration and built a digital foundation for the future. The hotel chain’s executives discuss retiring legacy applications, taking security seriously, and helping employees become even better at what they do.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Florida Gulf Coast University Enables Digital Agility

Digital transformation is more than just deploying new technology—it’s rethinking how you operate your entire organization. Florida Gulf Coast University CIO Mary Banks discusses how the school’s own transformation is enabling the leadership team to make better decisions that impact costs, productivity, and success.

Josh Krist

Customers and Community

South Shore Health: Embracing Agility for Effective Digital Transformation

An important part of the past year has been sharing learnings across our healthcare community for improving finance, human resources, and supply chain management functions. Cara Babachicos, CIO at South Shore Health, shares the organization’s deployment journey and how Workday is helping South Shore Health achieve its goals.

Ellen Murphy

Customers and Community Finance

Coleman Worldwide Moving Enables Better Decision Making

A provider of local, long distance, and international moving services since 1914, Coleman Worldwide Moving is furthering its financial transformation with data reporting and analytics that drive strategic decision making. Alex Chance from Coleman recently shared insights on creating a holistic picture of the company’s financial performance.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community

How Governments Can Successfully Move to the Cloud

Government IT projects can be complex. We’ve evaluated our government customer engagements and feedback to analyze what’s worked well in their move to the cloud, and key focus areas needed to set them up for success. Here’s what we’ve learned.

Emily McEvilly

Customers and Community Human Resources

GM’s CEO Describes Her Vision Around Sustainability, Data, and Inclusivity

Mary Barra sets ambitious hiring and environmental goals for the storied automaker—and illustrates the associated benefits—as part of Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World digital event.

Bruno J. Navarro

Customers and Community

Workday Industry Insights EMEA: Accelerating the Journey to Becoming a Digital Enterprise

Businesses must continue to accelerate their journey to become agile, digital enterprises that are primed to respond to unseen challenges. On 18 November, Workday Industry Insights EMEA will bring together a cross-section of industry experts who will share valuable insights on thriving in such uncertain times.

Subarna Ganguly

Customers and Community Human Resources

Gammon Construction Advances Digitization to Gain Competitiveness

Two executives from Gammon Construction discuss their experience with their digital transformation journey so far, as well as the benefits they will gain from it.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Workday News and Culture

Embrace What’s Possible: Join Us at Conversations for a Changing World

At our digital event September 28-29, we’ll connect you with global leaders and changemakers to discuss leading through uncertainty and how we can work together to create a brighter future for all. We’ll also provide an in-depth look at new Workday product features and innovations that will help you thrive in a continuously changing world.

Christine Cefalo

Customers and Community Human Resources

Pandemic-Era Employee Benefits Are Here to Stay

The Hartford, a leader in property and casualty insurance, group benefits, and mutual funds, shared insights from its 2021 Future of Benefits Study at the Workday Financial Services Industry Summit.

Jillian Ogawa

Customers and Community Finance

Retail & Hospitality Industry Summit: Moving Ahead With Agility and Analytics

Business leaders in the retail and hospitality industries at a recent Workday summit talk about how they’re finding a path forward that looks less like surviving and more like thriving.

Jeremiah Barba

Customers and Community

Clark Construction Combines Great Talent With Field Mobility for a Bright Future

Clark Construction strives to hire and retain the best people available—locally when possible—while giving them the tools and flexibility to perform their best every day. Two of the company’s IT and HR leaders talk about the importance of mobility to company performance, as well as to staffing and retention, during these challenging times for the industry.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Workday Podcast: How CSA Group Is Enabling Finance Digital Acceleration

CSA Group set out to digitize its financials and reporting processes and unlock new levels of productivity. Hitesh Laxman, director, financial process improvement at CSA Group, and Lynn Hurley, senior vice president, finance consulting, Collaborative Solutions, share learnings from the professional services company’s digital transformation journey.

Greg Thomas

Customers and Community Workday News and Culture

Take 5 With Doug Robinson: A Solid Value System Makes Great Teams

While Doug Robinson didn’t reach his childhood dream of playing in the NFL, he brings his strong teamwork ethic to leading our global sales team here at Workday. Read how Robinson got his start in the business, what makes him excited about Workday’s future, and what he thinks makes our people so special.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Communications, Media, and Technology Summit: Why Innovation Is the Only Way Forward

Business leaders in the communications, media, and technology industries at a recent Workday summit discussed what matters most as they find new ways to reach their customers.

Jeremiah Barba

Customers and Community Workday News and Culture

New Approach, Same Goal: Staying Dedicated to Workday Customer Satisfaction

The results from Workday’s 2021 Customer Satisfaction Survey are in. While we’re proud to have consistently earned high marks on our surveys, learn what we’ll do differently going forward to gain even more insight into customer satisfaction.

Emily McEvilly

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Standard Contractual Clauses: Enabling Future Cross-Border Data Flows

Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, discusses the European Commission's newly released, final version of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which provides clarity for companies that transfer personal data outside of Europe.

Barbara Cosgrove

Customers and Community Human Resources

Workforce Optimization: Creating a New Path to Business Agility

Disruption isn’t isolated to unprecedented times. Workforce optimization—a strategy that combines the efficiency of automated workforce management with the flexibility of an agile, skills-based talent approach—is critical in driving business continuity and profitability.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Powering a Richer Workday Experience in Microsoft Teams

We’re excited to announce an even more immersive and productive experience for users of our Workday for Microsoft Teams app. This should translate into greater worker productivity and engagement, and most importantly, organizational success.

Stuart Bowness

Customers and Community

Workday Industry Insights Europe: How Professional Services Is Preparing for the Post-Pandemic World

At our recent digital event, finance executives and industry analysts discussed how the pandemic has impacted the pace of digital change in the professional services industry.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Finance

Workday Podcast: A Tech CFO Looks to the Future

The disruption of the pandemic affects tech, media, and entertainment companies in many different ways, and the office of the CFO is adapting through it all. On this episode, our guest is Liz Brittain, CFO of cybersecurity company HackerOne.

Jeremiah Barba

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

3 Workday Customers Share Their Paths to Digital Acceleration

At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, leaders in finance, HR, and technology discussed how they’re reducing complexity, engaging employees, and driving innovation through digital transformation efforts.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community

Primark: Fashioning the Future of HR in the Retail Workplace

At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, fashion retailer Primark shared how it brought together effective HR approaches and technology to move with agility, engage with employees, and prepare for the future.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

How Workday Extend Allows Accuride to Punch Above Its Weight

Paul Wright, CIO of vehicle components-maker Accuride, talks about how he helped the company detangle its technology footprint while gaining functionality, how the company saves time and money with Workday Extend, and how strong business partnerships lead to successful digital transformation projects.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community

Global Study: Professional Services Companies Are Both Leading and Lagging in Organizational Agility

Professional services firms have made significant progress in their digital efforts, but there’s still work to do. In our latest executive survey, key findings reveal where the industry needs to go.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Human Resources

Quick-Service Restaurants: Moving Forward With Creativity

Amid disruptive times, quick-service restaurants have found a way forward through creativity, agility, and flexibility. Let’s look at how they’ve done it and how they’re looking to the future.

Jeremiah Barba

Analytics and Insights Customers and Community

Workday Industry Insights Europe: Technology and Data Strategies for Financial Services

At our recent digital event, an IT leader at Netherlands-headquartered trading firm IMC spoke about how the ability to unlock data has served their customers, even while facing unprecedented business disruption.

Jillian Ogawa

Customers and Community

Global Study: The Digital Acceleration Imperative

As the world recovers from a pandemic, executives we surveyed are already reflecting on how to protect their companies from future crises. For many, accelerating digital growth is the number one change that will improve their organization’s resilience.

Josh Krist

Customers and Community

Collaborating With Innovative Change-Makers in Healthcare

At our first fully digital healthcare industry summit, we gathered our growing healthcare community for a day focused on innovation, collaboration, sharing lessons learned, and celebration.

Ellen Murphy

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

How Sun Life Uses Workday Extend and People Experience to Engage Employees

Learn how the financial services company extended the power of Workday to make the employee experience smoother and more productive—especially as it looks ahead to bringing employees back to the office.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Equiniti and Netflix: Finance Transformation in the Age of Disruption

Finance leaders from Equiniti and Netflix share how they pivoted to virtually operating their company’s financials when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and how they’re better preparing for future disruption.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Human Resources

How First Advantage Is Creating an Anti-Bias Culture

With a greater spotlight on social injustice over the last year, organizations are re-examining how they can build greater diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Michael Pilnick, executive vice president of global human resources at First Advantage, discusses how the company is evolving its culture to create inclusivity for all.

Ghadeer Redler

Customers and Community

CIO View: Pushing the Button on Digital Acceleration

Based in Germany with more than 670 subsidiaries globally, ThyssenKrupp is one of the world's largest steel producers. During our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World, ThyssenKrupp’s CIO shared how the company embarked on a transformation programme to accelerate its shift to digital in 2020.

Steve Dunne

Customers and Community Human Resources

Workday Industry Insights Europe: Building a Firm Foundation for Retail Human Capital Management

At our recent digital event, Harrods and Fielmann AG talked about how having a single system with Workday helps them achieve greater business insights, stay connected with their employees, and streamline business processes.

Jeremiah Barba

Customers and Community Human Resources

How Delivery Hero Scales Talent Alongside Fast Growth

The global senior director of people systems and operations at Delivery Hero discusses how the company has been able to improve its employee experience—even as the organization undergoes massive growth.

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Human Resources

The Importance of Two-Way Trust During Times of Adversity

Trust in the workplace is built through actions, not words. Bob Saccullo, director of people operations at Blackbaud, shares how the company has been able to maintain two-way trust between leadership and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ghadeer Redler

Customers and Community

Taking Care of Healthcare Customers: Workday Once Again Named Best in KLAS

We’re delighted to announce that for the fourth year in a row, customer input shared with KLAS Research has earned us the recognition of Best in KLAS in ERP for Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management, and Workday Supply Chain Management solutions for healthcare, and Best in KLAS for Talent Management.

Keith Lohkamp

Customers and Community Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Why Uncertainty Doesn’t Have to Hurt Employee Engagement

Employee engagement remains a top priority for HR leaders throughout the pandemic, but managing that with a distributed workforce can be challenging. On this Workday Podcast episode, Deep Mahajan, senior director of people development and culture at technology company Nutanix, shares insight into how her organization is keeping up with employee engagement regardless of where they are.

Ghadeer Redler

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Asia-Pacific Leaders Share How Digital Agility Is Enabling Them to Emerge Stronger

While the pandemic has created many challenges, The Salvation Army Australia and City Developments Limited of Singapore have also found the disruption has led to new and better ways of working. Learn more from their talk during our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World.

Jillian Ogawa

Customers and Community

A Year of Firsts

It was a unique year for Workday and our customers, and a period of time when they needed us most. Our Chief Customer Officer Emily McEvilly shares how our community grew and learned together in 2020, and how we’ll take those lessons forward.

Emily McEvilly

Customers and Community

The Skills Movement: Building a Sustainable and Equitable Future for Global Workers

Global events in 2020 have accelerated the need for new workforce skills. Leaders from Telstra and Mastercard share six strategies to maximize opportunities in a skills-based economy fueled by automation and AI.

Ghadeer Redler