Podcasts

Analytics and Insights

Workday Podcast: How the Best Stay on Top in Professional Services

With fierce competition, it’s tough for any business to get to the top and stay there. Industry analyst Jeanne Urich explains how the most successful professional and business services firms do it.

Workday Staff Writers February 11, 2020

Finance Human Resources

Workday Podcast: What Pairs Well with Digital Transformation? Organizational Agility

Bob Evans, founder of Cloud Wars Media Network, shares his thoughts on why companies struggle with digital transformation, and what it means to enable organizational agility across your enterprise.

Josh Krist February 03, 2020

Finance Human Resources

Workday Podcast: How the Cloud Helps Government CIOs and CFOs Improve Operations

When government agencies modernize their ERP systems, CFOs gain better visibility into agency spend and processes, and CIOs are able to shift resources to more strategic priorities.

Workday Staff Writers January 09, 2020

Customers and Community Workday News and Culture

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.

Workday Staff Writers December 30, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Bold Steps CIOs Can Take to Transform Higher Education

Opinder Bawa, CIO and vice president at the University of San Francisco, discusses digital transformation in higher ed and the bold steps CIOs can take to ensure their students experience college in a way that’s meaningful in person, online, and offline.

Josh Krist December 01, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Charting a Smarter Future for AI in the Enterprise

Workday's Jason Albert and James Cross discuss why enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be used much differently than in the consumer space, how we can shape the future we want to see, and how companies can quickly ramp up their own AI efforts.

Josh Krist October 08, 2019

Customers and Community Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Opening Doors to Opportunity at Walmart

Walmart's Gayatri Agnew discusses how one of the world's largest companies is driving change through its Walmart.org philanthropic organization, by opening up opportunities for its associates to grow their careers.

Carrie Varoquiers October 02, 2019

Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Using the Cloud Wisely in Higher Ed

Community colleges play a vital role in giving people affordable and accessible educational opportunities. And cloud technology, when used wisely, can improve the educational experience for students.

Josh Krist August 28, 2019

Planning

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.

Greg Thomas August 19, 2019

Planning

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.

Greg Thomas July 28, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: What’s Code for “Values-Run Business” in German? Mittelstand

In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the Mittelstand—midsize, often family-owned companies—make up a large segment of the economy. Klaus Schatz of KPMG shares economic challenges facing the Mittelstand and how companies are adapting.

Greg Thomas July 12, 2019

Human Resources

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.

Steve Dunne June 30, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Cybersecurity: An Inside View with Andreas Tomek of KPMG

An increase in high-profile cyber crime attacks has elevated discussion of cyber crime in the media. Learn about the latest threats and where businesses are on their journey to fight back against these challenges.

Greg Thomas June 26, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Modern Professional Services Automation Helps Firms Work Smarter

Margo Visitacion, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the challenges facing professional services firms, and how technology solutions such as professional services automation (PSA) can help firms work smarter rather than harder.

Mark David June 18, 2019

Analytics and Insights

Workday Podcast: Don’t Take Payroll for Granted

Experts discuss how payroll professionals can cope with changing regulations, higher expectations, and shifting workforce dynamics.

Josh Krist June 12, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Providing Opportunity Onramps Through Upskilling

Learn how upskilling programs can help solve the challenge of finding great talent while creating opportunity onramps for people to move into better jobs.

Greg Thomas May 10, 2019

Finance

Workday Podcast: Navigating the Ongoing Complexities of GDPR

It's been nearly a year since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Marcel Pieters, with Deloitte Consulting B.V. in the Netherlands, provides a closer look at how businesses are managing GDPR and its impact across the world.

Steve Dunne April 25, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: How to Think About Cybersecurity in 2019

Cybersecurity continues to be a strong focus area after a number of high-profile global breaches. In this podcast, learn about the IT security threats facing businesses and how organisations can have a key role in fending off cybersecurity attacks.

Steve Dunne April 18, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Accuride Shifts Gears to the Cloud

Why does the cloud make perfect sense for a mid-market manufacturing company? Paul Wright, CIO at Accuride Corporation, discusses that and more in this podcast. The vehicle components company now has most of its systems in the cloud, including financials, HR, manufacturing, and productivity. Take a listen.

Mary Hayes Weier April 11, 2019

Finance

Workday Podcast: The Forces Shaping Financial Services

As the pace of change in technology and business continues to increase, the financial services industry must evolve to keep up. Experts from Deloitte discuss the latest technology trends affecting financial services companies and what leaders need to do to stay innovative.

Greg Thomas April 08, 2019

Customers and Community Human Resources

Workday Podcast: HR and Shifting to a Culture of Agility

Becky Woodmansee, HR director at Whitbread, the UK's largest operator of hotels and restaurants, talks about how Whitbread transformed HR and redefined its technology and culture to support 50,000 employees and a rapidly changing business model.

Steve Dunne March 24, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: How Healthcare Leaders Can Innovate in Uncertain Times

Walter Porter, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP specializing in healthcare, shares what drives healthcare providers to innovate, why culture and back-office systems matter when attracting talent, and how some providers are investing in the future.

Josh Krist March 17, 2019

Analytics and Insights

Workday Podcast: How CFOs Can Forge an Analytics-Driven Culture

How can CFOs be catalysts for change? Matt Schwenderman of Deloitte Consulting LLP explains how this starts by creating an analytics-driven culture.

Greg Thomas March 12, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Tapping Human Potential in the Workplace

What's the best way to increase employee engagement and collaboration? Building community can help, though that's easy to say and much harder to do. We delve into this topic with Matthew Hanwell, author and HR leader at a leading Europe-based consumer goods company, Fiskars Group.

Greg Thomas March 11, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Peeling Back the Layers of Diversity and Inclusion

Carin Taylor, chief diversity officer at Workday, and Mike Dillon, chief diversity and inclusion leader at PwC, share their experiences and inspiring insights in a podcast on what diversity and inclusion means to each of them and their organizations.

Greg Thomas March 08, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Uncovering the Keys to Growth for Medium Enterprises

How can medium enterprises lay the foundation for growth while also becoming more efficient and agile? Hint: data is important. Listen to this podcast with Jason Averbook, author, analyst, and CEO and co-founder of Leapgen.

Greg Thomas March 07, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Why Great Culture Leads to Greater Business Success

Why is a great work environment and strong culture better for your employees and your business? Michael C. Bush, CEO, Great Place to Work, has the answer. He talks with Greg Pryor, senior vice president, people and performance evangelist at Workday, and offers insights gleaned from years of employee feedback data and conversations with business leaders.

Workday Staff Writers February 21, 2019

Finance

Workday Podcast: Aon CFO on Global Risk, Smart M&As, and Data-Driven Insights

CFO Christa Davies shares insights from her experience overseeing some of Aon's largest acquisitions, including the importance of cultural fit. She also shares her thoughts on managing risk in today’s world, and the data-driven insights gained by having finance and human resources data on a single cloud platform.

Mary Hayes Weier February 20, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Redefining Engagement at Work

Dan Schawbel from Future Workplace and Erin Yang from Workday talk about the role of leadership in addressing loneliness in a technology-enabled workplace. They also discuss how millennials are redefining engagement at work to focus more on social connections.

Greg Thomas February 07, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Automating and Streamlining Vital Business Processes

Vijay Tella, co-founder and CEO of Workato, talks with Leighanne Levensaler, co-head and managing director of Workday Ventures, about real-world of examples of how integrations and workflow automations can move businesses forward, and how the Workday-Workato partnership will benefit our shared customers.

Workday Staff Writers February 05, 2019

Human Resources

Workday Podcast: The Importance of the Employee Experience at GE

Paul Davies, employee experience leader, GE, talks with Workday's Greg Pryor about what the employee experience really means to GE and the impact of digitalization in human resources.

Workday Staff Writers January 29, 2019

Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Building the World’s Largest Collaborative Data Community

Have you heard? We've launched a podcast. In this episode, data.world CEO Brett Hurt talks with Leighanne Levensaler about how the smart use of data changes a company's culture, and how data.world has created the world's largest collaborative data community.

Workday Staff Writers January 24, 2019