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Workday Podcast: Payroll Is Evolving to Deliver Greater Impact and Business Value

Ellen Murphy September 08, 2020

Global Study: Are Proserv Companies Falling Behind in the Race to Organizational Agility?

Ghadeer Redler July 24, 2020

Workday Podcast: Building a Culture Fit for Agility

Julie Jares June 26, 2020

Workday Elevate Digital Experience for Europe: Rising to Today’s Challenges with Confidence

Workday Staff Writers June 10, 2020

Understanding the Basics: What Is a Financial Management System?

Workday Staff Writers June 01, 2020

Customers and Community

Crisis Management and Recovery Tips for Professional Services Firms

Workday Staff Writers May 28, 2020

Customers and Community

How Customers Are Using Workday to Respond to COVID-19

Leighanne Levensaler May 04, 2020

Customers and Community

Focus Through Disruption: How Alight Solutions Delivers Client Services Remotely

Patrice Cappello April 29, 2020

Customers and Community Human Resources

How Upskilling Is Critical to the Changing World of Work

Workday Staff Writers March 12, 2020

Workday Podcast: Future-Proofing the Professional Services Workforce

Julie Jares March 02, 2020

Customers and Community Finance

CFO Perspective: How Employee Engagement Influences the Bottom Line

Ghadeer Redler February 24, 2020

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

Workday Staff Writers February 11, 2020

Planning Technology Innovation

Why Professional Services Firms Must Digitize These 5 Areas

Mark David January 16, 2020

Human Resources

Norconsult Embraces HR Disruption Head On

Steve Dunne September 25, 2019

Analytics and Insights

How Your Professional Services Firm Stacks Up Against the Competition

Julie Jares August 05, 2019

3 Workforce Planning Tips for Project-Based Businesses

Adaptive Insights Staff Writers July 16, 2019

Workday Podcast: Modern Professional Services Automation Helps Firms Work Smarter

Mark David June 18, 2019

Customers and Community Finance

Energy Efficiency Expert CLEAResult Increases Productivity and Visibility with Workday

Julie Jares June 12, 2019

Professional Services Firms: Five Critical Factors for Better Capacity Planning

Adaptive Insights Staff Writers May 22, 2019

Finance Technology Innovation

Counting on Change in the Accounting Industry

Mark David April 28, 2019

Finance Human Resources

How IT Consulting Firm BNB Has Gained Insights and Increased Profitability

Patrice Cappello April 23, 2019

Customer Voice: How Workforce Planning Supports Rapid Growth

Adaptive Insights Staff Writers February 06, 2019

Human Resources

Professional Services Outlook 2019: Q&A with Jeanne Urich of Service Performance Insight

Mark David January 31, 2019

Solving Global Business Challenges with Workday: Q&A with Aon’s VP of Finance Solutions

Workday Staff Writers October 01, 2018

Human Resources Technology Innovation

The New Era of Professional Services: Q&A with Jeanne Urich of Service Performance Insight Research

Mark David August 17, 2018

Finance Planning

Planning and Forecasting for the Professional Services Firm of the Future

Mark David August 09, 2018

Customers and Community Finance

Ryan, LLC on Finance, Technology, and Its Roadmap for the Future

Elaine Ip July 25, 2018

Customers and Community

How Booz Allen Hamilton is Turning its 2020 Vision into Reality

Elaine Ip June 18, 2018

Analytics and Insights

Scale or Derail: Three Ways to Improve Your Firm’s Efficiency

Patrice Cappello June 12, 2018

In Good Company: Innovating in Professional Services

Elaine Ip April 01, 2018

Human Resources

In Professional Services, It’s All About Having Mad Skills

Mark David March 13, 2018

Human Resources

Expert Advice: Why Law Firms Are Focused on Talent Management

Elaine Ip November 26, 2017

Human Resources

Why Professional Services Firms That Emphasize Learning Lead the Pack

Mark David November 13, 2017

Human Resources

3 Ways Professional Services Firms Can Prosper

Mark David September 11, 2017

5 KPIs Every Professional Services Firm Should Track

Mark David January 30, 2017

Why Change is an Opportunity for the Professional Services Industry

Mark David October 05, 2016

Workday News and Culture

Talking Vertical: Workday’s Approach to Industries

Workday Staff Writers August 06, 2015

Analytics and Insights

5 Questions on Workday Professional Services Automation

Betsy Bland April 09, 2015

Customers and Community

Workday Recognizes Innovative Customers with First-Ever Inspire Award

Workday Staff Writers November 07, 2014

Diary of a Deployment Part 3: Going Live with Workday Financial Management

Mark Stinson November 03, 2014

Diary of a Deployment Part 2: Business Insights with Workday Worktags

Mark Stinson May 15, 2014

Diary of a Deployment: Workday Financial Management at Shelter Insurance

Mark Stinson May 14, 2014

Professional and Business Services

The payroll function is becoming a more strategic partner in order to support business strategy, data compliance, employee engagement, and more. Colin Brennan from Alight Solutions discusses this shift and what it means for organizations and their employees.

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.

In times of hypergrowth, it can be difficult for companies to stay nimble. Chris Skinner, CEO at TopBloc, shares how his professional services firm was able to remain agile through a time of rapid growth.

We invite business leaders throughout Europe to join us for the Workday Elevate Digital Experience, where you’ll hear from Workday and our customers on how to gain insights, navigate change, and keep your organizations moving forward.

Here’s a quick guide to the new demands of the finance function, what you need to know about financial management systems, and how the right financial system can help companies adapt to a changing world.

Three professional services executives in the Asia-Pacific region share their strategies for remote workforce deployment, risk and scenario planning, and staying agile in the face of ambiguity.

In today’s new world of remote work, professional services firms need to quickly pivot their service models to meet their customers’ changing needs. Read Alight Solutions’ best practices for delivering client services remotely.

Businesses must adopt new skills within their workforces to keep up with frequent advances in technology. Three HR leaders share how companies can stay ahead of emerging tech developments through upskilling and reskilling.

How can professional service firms prepare for the jobs of tomorrow? By upskilling and reskilling their current workforce to meet changing market needs.

Your workforce is your biggest expense—are you investing back into it? MATRIX Resources' CFO shares how building a culture of high employee engagement can influence a company’s bottom line.

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.

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.

With continued global expansion, Norconsult, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy firm for social planning, engineering design, and architecture, disrupted its approach to HR to better engage its people.

In the webinar, “Best in Class KPIs: Benchmarking Your Professional Services Business,” Jeanne Urich, managing director of SPI, shares compelling data from her company’s 2019 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark.

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.

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.

CLEAResult, a professional services company, shares how it improved operational efficiencies by moving to a single system for finance, HR, planning, and professional services automation (PSA).

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.

For the accounting industry’s long-term health, KPIs need to change. Here are a some ways firms can move in the right direction.

The chief operating officer at Business Network Builders (BNB) explains how using Workday has helped the IT services company increase project profitability, improve employee engagement, gain insights into resource needs, and more.

What four key trends will impact the professional services industry this year? Jeanne Urich of Service Performance Insight (SPI) shares these and more ahead of SPI's publication of the 2019 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark.

In this episode, Steve Bandrowczak, chief operating officer and chief information officer at Alight Solutions, explains how new technologies and changing consumer expectations are disrupting the professional services industry, and how CIOs and IT leaders can position their firms to succeed.

In the world of professional services, nothing is more vital than having a deep pool of “mad skills” available for clients. Learn how successful firms have accomplished this by having a talent management strategy incorporated into their resource management tools and processes.

A firm’s biggest asset is its legal talent. Chief talent officers from Dechert LLP and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP discuss how law firms can improve their approach to talent management, and why technology plays an important role.

Research shows the professional services industry faces growing attrition and decreasing growth, yet one important solution that's often overlooked is an effective learning program. Here's how various learning approaches can keep employees engaged throughout their careers.

With the release of SPI’s 2017 benchmark report, it’s clear the professional services industry continues to face challenges. Read on to learn three ways leading professional services firms are moving their organizations forward.

The professional services industry faces some challenges, including declining new-client revenue and higher employee attrition. Mark David covers five key performance indicators that firms need to track to ensure top performance today and position themselves for the future.

The professional services industry is dealing with a substantial decline in new client revenue. Mark David discusses three focus areas that will help firms increase profits and productivity.

Workday VP John Webb discusses our industry strategy, and reveals what makes Workday—and our customers—unique in how we approach this effort.

Today we introduced Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA), a new solution I am very excited about. Here are some of the questions I've received from customers, prospects, and partners about Workday PSA and how it's differentiated.

This week Workday presented Allied Global with our first Workday Inspire Award. This award recognizes outstanding customers that are doing an amazing job of leveraging business insights from Workday to deliver quantifiable results for their organizations.