Workday Podcast: COVID-19 and Retail—Finding the Way Forward
Retail may never be the same after COVID-19. Accenture’s global retail consulting lead joins us to discuss how the industry is finding a way forward through disruption.
Planning
Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.
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Global Study: Are Proserv Companies Falling Behind in the Race to Organizational Agility?
The COVID-19 pandemic likely exacerbated what we found in our global study, conducted before the crisis: The majority of professional services businesses experience competing challenges moving to real-time planning.
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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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3 Steps for Planning in a Changing World
Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?
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CFOs Play a Powerful Role in Continuous Planning
Having the tools for data-driven decision making enables organizations to plan, pivot, and build strategic partnerships that support business continuity, growth, and changes in the healthcare industry.
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Workday Podcast: Slack’s VP of People on the Future of Work
The traditional work environment may never return. In this two-part podcast, Slack’s head of people, Dawn Sharifan, joined us to discuss remote workforce management in a crisis and the new world of work.
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Workday Podcast: To Deal with Disruption, Businesses Are Changing How They Plan
Rob Hull, founder of Adaptive Insights (now Workday Adaptive Planning), was a recent guest on the Workday Podcast to share his thoughts on how the need for agility is changing the way businesses plan.
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Looking Forward: Best Practices for Financial Scenario Modeling
As organizations try to make sense of an economic landscape that continues to evolve, business planning becomes more important than ever. Kinnari Desai, senior director of corporate finance at Workday, discusses scenario modeling and the importance of agility in planning.
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Global Study: Are Financial Services Firms Doing Enough to Build Organizational Agility?
The future belongs to financial services firms that are agile, from the business planning process to the ability to adjust to new market conditions.
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How the CFO Can Tackle Uncertainty and Persistent Change
The finance team is at the forefront of leading a business through uncertain times. What should CFOs be focused on? In this article, we look at five key areas to prioritize.
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Global Study: How Retail Companies Approach Organizational Agility
Retailers know they must stay agile and flexible to thrive now and into the future. Our global study digs into the importance of organizational agility for retailers.
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Message Is Clear at Adaptive Live 2020: You’re Essential—and So Is Modern Planning
More than 2,500 attendees joined us for our virtual Adaptive Live conference. Read on for the highlights, including how our customers are using Workday Adaptive Planning to adapt to a rapidly changing world, and where we’re investing to ensure our planning platform keeps pace with the demands of your business.
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Workday Podcast: Finance Transformation and the Road to Recovery
Sanjay Sehgal, principal, finance transformation at KPMG, shares his ideas for how finance leaders can guide their businesses forward during challenging times.
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Reforecasting Amid Upheaval: Best Practices for Financial and Workforce Planning
Our team of finance professionals shares tips for dealing with revenue shocks and workforce and capacity planning when income is hard to predict, and strategies for emerging from this pandemic in a position of strength.
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Workday Podcast: Enterprise Agility in the Age of Urgency
Workday Vice Chairman Tom Bogan, who led Adaptive Insights through to its acquisition by Workday, discusses the urgent need for agility in today’s environment and how it impacts an organization’s longevity.
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Workday Partner Tips: How to Build Operational Resilience to Strengthen Business Continuity
We're sharing guidance from some of our strategic partners—Accenture, Collaborative Solutions, KPMG, Mercer, OneSource Virtual, and PwC—on how to strengthen operational resilience during times of crisis.
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Workday Webinar Series: Finance Best Practices During Uncertain Times
Which areas should finance leaders focus on to best guide their businesses through these challenging times? In a two-part webinar series, we’ll examine scenario planning, closing the books remotely, cash and liquidity management, and more.
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Workday Partner Tips: Top Focus Areas for CFOs During COVID-19
We’re sharing advice from our strategic partner Deloitte on what CFOs should be focused on now. Those areas include virtualizing the finance organization, bolstering liquidity, and managing risk.
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How to Gain Business Agility in Uncertain Times
It’s unclear how long the COVID-19 pandemic will impact businesses and the economy. Learn three critical planning processes finance teams should deploy to help their companies succeed during times of uncertainty.
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Global Study: How Tech Companies Are Building Organizational Agility
Technology companies have many of the right pieces in place for organizational agility. How can they break through the most common barriers to achieving it?
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Organizational Agility and the CEO: Guiding the Business Through Digital Transformation
In our study on organizational agility, we identified a group of leading organizations who have embraced agility in order to successfully transform their business for digital revenue growth. See how the CEO can keep the C-suite inspired for better business results.
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Workday Podcast: How New Technologies Are Improving Business Planning
New technologies and the power of machine learning are disrupting the way businesses plan. Bhaskar Himatsingka, senior vice president of technology at Workday, discusses what it all means for organizations.
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Organizational Agility and the CFO: Finance Leading From the Front
Our research uncovered what leading organizations do to embrace agility as part of their day-to-day operations. See how the CFO can drive meaningful change.
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Why the Power of One Is Our North Star at Workday
What’s so powerful about the Power of One? In two new videos, Workday product and technology leaders drill down into what one source of data means for our customers, and explain how a single system gives customers the ability to plan, execute, and analyze in ways they never could before.
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How FP&A Teams in Healthcare Can Manage Industry Changes
Healthcare faces massive shifts that create margin pressure and widespread uncertainty. Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams must transform how they approach three distinct areas.
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Why Professional Services Firms Must Digitize These 5 Areas
Many professional services firms steer clients through digital transformation journeys, yet rely on disconnected and manual processes to manage their own businesses. Digitizing these areas can help firms be more competitive.
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How FP&A Teams Can Have More Impact on the Business
Our CFO survey found that when it comes to the impact of the financial planning and analysis team, there's room for improvement. Here are five ways FP&A teams can deliver more value.
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How Automation and Machine Learning Are Reshaping the Finance Function, Part Two
Take a deeper look at the specific use cases of automation and machine learning across finance, and what they mean for traditional, day-to-day finance activities.
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Organizational Agility: The Power of Continuous Planning
Our recent research finds that only a small group of elite high-performers have adopted an active planning process.
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Results From Our Global Research: The Future Belongs to the Agile
Companies report stronger performance when they embrace agile ways of working: breaking down bureaucracy, eliminating data and process silos, building a workforce with modern skills, and prioritizing technologies that evolve along with them.
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Workday Podcast: Getting in on the Act with Active Planning
Kerman Lau, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Adaptive Insights, discusses active planning: what it is, why it matters, and what successful planning looks like.
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Planning for the Future with the Power of One
Adaptive Insights was recently named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions. Barbara Larson reflects on what the Power of One holds for the future of planning.
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Third Time Running: Adaptive Insights Named Planning Leader
Gartner has positioned Adaptive Insights as a Leader in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions for the third time. Connie DeWitt shares the importance of customer satisfaction, execution, innovation, and vision.
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Celebrating One Year: Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company
Today marks the one-year anniversary since Adaptive Insights joined Workday. Tom Bogan reflects on what we've accomplished together, including customer adoption and momentum, innovation with machine learning, and advancing on the path to the Power of One.
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Workday Podcast: Managing Growth and Planning for Change at Ivanti
Mark Chamberlain, vice president of global sales operations at software company Ivanti, shares what he's learned about growing through acquisitions, the importance of planning, and what it's like to spend time on both the finance and sales sides of the house.
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3 Workforce Planning Tips for Project-Based Businesses
Here's how professional services organizations can develop capacity flex—the ability to rapidly increase or decrease staffing levels or to shift quickly from one project to another.
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How to Step Up Your Finance Game with Dashboards and Analytics
Visual analytics opens the door for collaboration with easy-to-interpret data that can be shared and accessed by anyone with permission. See five ways dashboards help identify valuable business insights.
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How to Increase Buy-in for Driver-Based Planning
Encouraging buy-in for driver-based planning helps assure teams that they'll reap the maximum benefit of the approach. Follow these five steps to get both executives and business partners on board.
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Professional Services Firms: Five Critical Factors for Better Capacity Planning
Pop quiz: How many resources do you need in a week, month, or season from now? Here are the most important areas to consider for capacity planning.
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How to Improve Your Finance Game with Cube Sheets
These multidimensional spreadsheets make it easy to create sophisticated planning models with up to 10 dimensions. With your data imported, you can start to twist and turn your model just like, well, a Rubik’s Cube.
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Three Easy Steps to More Impressive Board Reports
Standard slide templates and data charts may satisfy most board members. But to really dazzle them—and establish the finance team as a strategic partner in driving the business forward—consider these presentation tips for your board reports.
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Five Ways to Improve Business Planning Using Rolling Forecasts
Companies often spend weeks or months developing an annual plan or budget, but by the time they’re finished, the market has changed and the budget has become obsolete. There’s a better way: rolling forecasts.
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Now More Than Ever, It’s About Agility
In the age of urgent, rapid digitalization, businesses that take on an agile philosophy for planning have a strategic advantage over those still clinging to old ways of planning. Read more from Tom Bogan, executive vice president, Planning Business Unit at Workday.
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Customer Voice: How Workforce Planning Supports Rapid Growth
Rapid global growth is never easy—but it can be much smarter and more efficient with workforce planning. That's the experience of international law firm Pinsent Masons LLP. Andrew Brett, financial accounting manager, shares how the firm uses workforce planning to better manage growth—and the insights it's gaining in the process.
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HR Leader Perspective: How Finance Should Think about Workforce Planning
Today's workforce planning looks at more than full-time employees and their fully loaded costs. It involves looking at your talent through a broader lens. Amy Reichanadter, chief people officer at Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, explains how workforce planning can be the product of a happy marriage between HR and finance.
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Diary of a Deployment: Workday Adopts Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud
Workday is now live on Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud—only 10 short weeks from when we kicked off the deployment. Barbara Larson, vice president of corporate finance at Workday, shares details of the deployment and what it's going to mean for our FP&A organization.
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Everybody Plans: A Conversation with Tom Bogan
When Adaptive Insights became a Workday company, we brought together two amazing cultures and gained an incredible leader. Tom Bogan, who will remain as CEO of Adaptive Insights, shares his thoughts on the key tenets of successful business planning, innovations on the horizon for business planning software, and the shared vision of Workday and Adaptive Insights.
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What Adaptive Insights Has Learned About Planning From Helping Thousands of Customers
“Every leader knows that success is no accident—you have to plan for it,” writes Adaptive Insights CEO Tom Bogan. In addition to a great product, the Adaptive Insights crew brings to Workday extensive planning experience and insights from working with more than 4,000 organizations. Learn from Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company, how active planning drives the business forward and enables the finance organization to become a strategic partner.
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Workday + Adaptive Insights: A Single Planning Solution for Customers
In the next step in our journey to jointly enable customers to better plan, execute, and analyze across the enterprise, we've determined that the Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud will become the single planning solution moving forward for our customers. This strategy ensures we are offering customers the best solution to accelerate their finance, workforce, and business transformations.
