2025 Federal Forum Highlights: Tackling Change Head-On
Discover the top takeaways from the third annual Workday Federal Forum, including thoughts on IT modernization, talent, efficiency, and artificial intelligence.
Government
News, trends, and insights about the government sector.
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How Public Sector CIOs Mitigate Risk to Drive Change
State and local governments are typically risk averse. However, when organizations assess risk and take action, it can pave the way for major IT modernization. Sixteen public sector CIOs share their perspectives.
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5 Strategic Moves for Modernizing Public Sector Payroll
How can government leaders be better prepared to transform their organizations? We share five distinct but connected strategies that can help these leaders modernize their payroll.
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Workday Podcast: How the CFO of Orlando Helps the City Grow
Michelle McCrimmon, CFO of the City of Orlando, shares how she leverages technology to continue to transform finance, attract and retain talent, and help the fast-growing city prepare for the future.
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How Tech Innovation Can Help Save Taxpayer Dollars
With billions of dollars spent on outdated legacy systems every year, the U.S. federal government has the opportunity to become more efficient, agile, and impactful by modernizing its technology.
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Introducing Launch for Government: A New Way to Deploy Workday
Built for small and midsize local governments, Launch for Government is a new, data-driven approach to deploying Workday that results in an accelerated, more affordable, and lower-risk approach to digital transformation.
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Government Industry Outlook: 3 Ways Technology Will Enable Mission
From tight staffing levels to the public’s expectations for digital experiences, government agencies are dealing with a lot. That’s why they’re embracing new technologies and approaches, such as AI for productivity improvements and skills-based talent management.
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Why State Government Finance Is Pivoting to the Cloud
Modern cloud systems bring new levels of accountability, transparency, and innovation to state government finances.
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Data Is the Key to Unlocking Tomorrow’s Workforce
To build the federal workforce of the future, agencies must first have a holistic understanding of their current skills gaps.
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The Federal Government Must Transform to Attract Tomorrow’s Workers
Federal agencies facing an accelerating retirement wave can attract and retain new talent through a modernized employee experience. But first they need to say goodbye to legacy systems. To learn more, we talked with Matthew T. Cornelius, managing director for federal industry at Workday.
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Workday Podcast: How DEIA Helps Attract and Retain Employees
In part two of our series on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in government, the FBI’s Scott McMillion and Workday’s Carin Taylor discuss how to attract, retain, and develop a workforce that’s truly diverse.
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4 Lessons We’ve Learned From Successful Government Cloud Projects
Government IT projects can be complex, time-consuming, and resource intensive. In the first post in our series, Public Sector Perspective, Workday’s Rowan Miranda evaluates some of our digital transformation projects and identifies practices that set them up for success. Here’s what we’ve learned about organizational considerations when migrating to the cloud.
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Workday Podcast: The ROI of Doing the Right Thing With Belonging and Diversity
Improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) within an organization is the right thing to do. But it is also the smart thing to do. We talked with Scott McMillion of the FBI and Workday’s Carin Taylor to learn more about building a successful DEIA strategy that improves an entire organization.
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The Future of State and Local Government: 5 Essential Focus Areas
No one knows for sure what the future holds. But some people have a pretty good idea. We asked experts, government leaders, and big-picture thinkers what trends and issues will shape state and local governments over the next few years—and what you can do today to prepare.
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Workday Podcast: Taking a People-First Approach Toward Digital Transformation in Government
Nole Walkingshaw, chief innovation officer at Salt Lake City, discusses how the city’s innovation team approaches digital transformation, and why modernizing decades-old technology requires a people-first strategy.
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A Public Transit Transformation: Santa Cruz METRO
How can a transit agency modernize its 20-year-old technology and operations to keep up with constant change? We talked with Chuck Farmer, CFO of Santa Cruz METRO, to learn more.
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Enabling Agility in Technology, People, and Infrastructure
In this video, two executives from the City of Baltimore share how they’re using cloud technology to transform into a modern government city.
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Workday Podcast: Hacking Bureaucracy to Drive Change in Government
Making change happen can be difficult, especially within the federal government. Marina Nitze, former CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, advocate for foster care reform, and author of the new book “Hack Your Bureaucracy,” discusses how she helped solve seemingly impossible challenges in governmental and private organizations to create lasting change.
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Navigating Seismic Change in the Public Sector
Learn how government finance, human resources, and technology leaders can guide their organizations through change with an insightful new report from Workday and Accenture.
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Workday Global Study: Government Leaders Say Data Silos Are Hampering Digital Transformation
Investing in people, technology, and flexible work methods can increase efficiency and effectiveness for the public sector. New research from Workday shares how governmental organizations can accelerate their digital strategy.
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How Governments Can Rethink Their RFP Process
Public sector organizations require a more nimble and holistic request for proposals (RFP) process that empowers them to find the best technology vendor for their needs. Workday’s Will Greer, vice president, government, explains how this will provide long-term benefits for governmental organizations.
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How Salt Lake City’s Innovation Team Is Building a Better Government
How do you update decades-old technology, policies, and practices to better serve your constituents? We talked with the Innovation Team for Salt Lake City—Utah’s state capital and most populous city—to learn more.
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Governments: 5 Things They Aren’t Telling You About Your Legacy System ‘Upgrade’
Lift-and-shift cloud migrations don’t save governments money over the long term—they hamstring transformation and waste precious public funds. Will Greer, vice president, government, at Workday, shares how there’s a better way.
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Workday Podcast: Why Context Is Everything for Today’s CIO
Charles Ewen, CIO at the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, joins us to talk about why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach for today’s CIOs. Informed by the findings of our latest global research, we also discuss how IT’s role within the business must evolve for a new hybrid world of work.
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5 Reasons Government Leaders Should Avoid Lift-and-Shift Cloud Migrations
Not every “cloud” is the same. Government finance and human resources teams should carefully weigh the differences between an enterprise management cloud approach and simply migrating existing ERP systems to a hosted data center.
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Announcing the Winners of the Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards
The Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards honor industry-specific solutions from our services partners built on top of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning.
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The Road Ahead for Technology Policy
Even as we recover from a difficult 2020, the world will never be the same. Jim Shaughnessy shares thoughts on five key technology policy challenges and opportunities in 2021 and beyond, ranging from workforce development to social justice.
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Three Workday Features That Support GDPR
The responsibility to comply with data privacy obligations is not one that our customers, and those considering Workday, bear alone. Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, highlights three features of Workday that directly address GDPR requirements.
