Thriving in a Changing World: Lessons From Tech and Media Leaders
In an industry keynote from Workday Rising, our flagship customer event, leaders from LiveRamp and Warner Bros. Discovery shared their approach to effectively adapting to change.
Media and Entertainment
News, trends, and insights about the media and entertainment industries.
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Workday Podcast: How Comcast Turns Data Into Insights With Workday Prism Analytics
While data may be free-flowing and abundant for HR leaders, there isn’t always a clear path to gaining real insights from it. Jay Chang, executive director of HR analytics at Comcast, joined us to talk about how the company uses Workday Prism Analytics to turn data into insights.
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Workday Podcast: Netflix Drives Business Impact With Workday Extend
For 24 years, Netflix has always been on the cutting edge of innovation. Learn how the streaming service and production company leans on its developers to enable modernization.
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Workday Podcast: The A to Z of Quote-to-Cash for Tech and Media Companies
You may not realize how quote-to-cash is a part of everyday life, but it’s humming behind the scenes as companies work to influence your decisions about apps, services, and subscriptions. In this episode, it’s all about quote-to-cash for technology and media companies with Igor Stenmark from MGI Research and Justin Joseph from Workday.
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How Media and Entertainment Leaders Can Thrive Through Transformation
Traditional categories in media and entertainment are quickly melting away. How can leaders in these industries thrive when everything is changing all the time?
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How Thomson Reuters Made Self-Identification Initiatives Work for Its Employees
Self-identification is essential when prioritizing belonging and diversity, but how do you make it work across a global team? Discover how Thomson Reuters expanded belonging and diversity self-identification capabilities to 68 countries.
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Workday Podcast: Transformative Events and Navigating Change
Kevin McDonald has guided media conglomerate The E.W. Scripps Company through more than 20 transformative events. In this episode, he shares lessons learned and practical tips for navigating mergers, IPOs, and more.
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Formula 1 Puts Pedal to the Metal on Digital Acceleration
Chris Roberts, head of IT infrastructure at Formula 1, shares the drivers for success in the racing organisation’s digital journey, and how it has led the pack as an “innovation machine.”
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How the C-Suite Shaped the PGA European Tour’s Digital Drive
The PGA European Tour’s chief financial officer, chief technology officer, and chief people officer discuss finance, IT, and HR transformation against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
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Understanding the Whole Consumer: Digital Monetization for Media and Entertainment
Media and entertainment companies work hard to paint a complete picture of consumers, build loyalty, and satisfy their ever-changing desires. It’s all part of an effective digital monetization strategy.
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Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies Explore the Future of Hybrid Work
At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tech, Media, and Entertainment: Transformation in Real Time
The tech, media, and entertainment industries are changing by the minute with some changes sparked by the pandemic and others accelerated by it. Let’s take a look at the transformation and what it means for the future of these industries.
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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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Workday Podcast: Global Media Giant Improves Business Insights
Media-insights company Kantar is connecting the dots among its workforce’s tools, processes, cultures, and skills across 77 countries. Nadia Hutchinson, an HR leader at Kantar, explains how.
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Workday Podcast: Why Data Matters to Tech and Media CFOs
CFOs are always looking for new ways to mine value, and data is often an untapped treasure chest. Eric Noren from Accenture shares how CFOs in the technology and media industries can gain better insights from data—including some innovative examples.
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Workday Podcast: Media and Entertainment: Lessons From Adversity
Mike Chapman, managing director of media and entertainment at Accenture, joins us to talk about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on media and entertainment companies and how the industry is looking to the future.
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Tech, Media, and the Gig Economy
The gig economy is having a big impact on businesses. Here's what it means for tech and media companies.
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Top 10 Workday Podcasts of 2019
Here's a look at some of our favorite Workday Podcasts of the year. Topics include building a collaborative culture, managing risk, charting the future of artificial intelligence, and much more.
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How the Platform Effect Is Changing Tech and Media (And Beyond)
The platform effect, when enterprises create innovative ways for buyers and sellers to match supply to demand, is rewriting the rules of how companies operate and how business gets done. At the heart of the platform effect are technology and media companies.
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What Tech and Media Can Learn From Each Other
Every company wants to be a tech company to a certain degree. More than most industries, tech and media's goals are often next-door neighbors, and these two powerful industries are embracing opportunities to learn from each other.
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Industries at Workday Rising: Collaboration and Connection
This year, we’ve significantly expanded the number of industry-specific sessions we’ll have at Workday Rising. Here’s a sample of some of the stories our customers will share about successes in their industries.
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Workday Podcast: Find, Engage, Retain: Building a Culture of Harmony at Warner Music Group
In the latest Workday podcast, discover how one of the world's largest entertainment and record label companies finds, engages, and retains its employees at a time when the battle for talent makes it really tough.
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Political Scientist Ian Bremmer: How CFOs Can Navigate Today’s World
What are the biggest risks CFOs face? What should they be optimistic about? Ian Bremmer, political scientist, author, and frequent news and talk show guest, shared his insights at our CFO dinner in Washington D.C. Read his thoughts on the rise of China, the G7 and Trump-Kim summits, technology innovation, and how CFOs can best prepare—and make a difference—in today’s turbulent world.
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HR Transformation Fit for a King at Cambridge University Press
As the oldest media business in the world—founded by King Henry VIII in 1534—you might not associate Cambridge University Press with the idea of HR transformation. But with 2,723 colleagues across 50 offices in 40 countries, the organisation knew it was time to make a change. Cathy Armor, director for people at Cambridge University Press, shares how they moved from dated HR systems to a single, unified system with Workday.
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Former Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord on How to Redefine HR
When it comes to a successful reinvention of HR, few companies have done it as well as Netflix. In this video, Patty McCord, former chief talent officer at Netflix and mastermind of the most famous slide deck on culture in recent business history, shares her thoughts on how to hire in a much more strategic way.
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Leadership Through Innovation: A Discussion with Walter Isaacson
At Workday Rising, Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former Chairman and CEO at CNN, spoke to a group of senior executives about the role of leadership in nurturing innovation and collaboration. This blog covers the takeaways from their discussion.
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HR Innovation: An Inside Look at How Sony Brought Five Companies Together on Workday
On April 2, five Sony companies all turned on a single instance of Workday Human Capital Management, allowing us the benefits of a modern HR system to support our collective workforces. We’ve learned a lot through the process, and this blog is an opportunity to share some of those things with other business leaders.
