Building an IT Organization That Drives Change
What does an IT organization need to keep innovating in the years ahead? Workday CIO Sheri Rhodes explains the four qualities that all tech leaders should instill in their teams.
Technology Innovation
Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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In Good Company: The Future of Healthcare
In this episode, Viktor Reznicek from KPMG discusses big changes in the healthcare industry, the impact of new technologies, and how healthcare leaders can adapt and succeed.
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The Evolving Role of Tech Leaders in Healthcare, Part Two
In part two of this article, learn more about innovative tools and technologies in healthcare, best practices for deploying new tools, and how culture contributes to innovation.
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The Evolving Role of Tech Leaders in Healthcare, Part One
The role of healthcare tech leaders must evolve for their organizations to remain competitive and meet changing needs in their communities. Guest blogger Sarah Richardson discusses two key issues facing healthcare IT leaders: reskilling their workforce and building strategic partnerships.
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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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Organizational Agility and the CIO: Challenging Bureaucracy, Seeking Integration
Are you a leader, laggard, or aspirer? Our research on organizational agility reveals how leading organizations have embraced agility on a daily basis to successfully transform their business for digital revenue growth. See how the CIO plays a critical role.
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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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8 Ways to Help Ensure Your Company’s AI Is Ethical
Based on our experiences, here are eight lessons for technology companies looking to champion a commitment to ethical artificial intelligence (AI) across their organization.
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Aligning Business and IT: FedEx’s Digital Transformation Journey
When it comes to digital transformation, aligning IT and HR initiatives up front is key to success. Learn how FedEx brought them together to gain internal agility and unlock innovation.
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In Good Company: Financial Services in the Age of Disruption
The phrase "disrupt or get disrupted" isn't about choices. For the financial services industry, it's a mantra of survival. Learn more from Deloitte Consulting LLP about the accelerating pace of change and how the finserv industry is keeping up.
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Investing in First Impressions: Retail and Hospitality Frontline Workers
Frontline workers are the first impression in retail and hospitality. Here’s why it’s so important to make sure they’re well-trained and empowered.
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The Changing World of Retail and Hospitality: Why Cloud Is Key
In an interview, Leslie Hand from IDC Retail Insights explains why harnessing the power of the cloud is essential to thriving in the changing worlds of retail and hospitality.
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How AI Improves Predictions, Not Human Judgment
Ajay Agrawal, co-author of “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence,” provides business leaders with actionable advice on how to realize the value of AI.
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Why a Midsize Company’s Best Employee Could Be the ‘Citizen Data Scientist’
You don't necessarily need formally trained experts to gain data-driven insights—others can put their (analytical) minds to it. Here's how to cultivate citizen data scientists in your midsize company.
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How Automation and Machine Learning Are Reshaping the Finance Function, Part One
Here's how more advanced methods of automation, including machine learning, can help CFOs transform the finance function to be more of a strategic advisor to the business.
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Innovation for a Changing World of IT
See how the newest Workday innovations are helping businesses harness real-time data and operate with agility to get ahead—and stay ahead—in a changing world.
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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.
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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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Why IT Leaders Must Proactively Understand Business Needs
IT’s biggest “service” isn’t that it provides technology (though of course it does), it’s that it has the insight and expertise across the entire company to be a strong unifying partner, if not the leader, in driving innovation.
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Banks Should Focus on Core Competencies, Not Tech, in Their Digital Transformation
Banks that seek to leverage technology more efficiently, but don’t strive to be technology firms themselves, are best positioned to deliver the future of financial services, writes Jerry Silva of IDC Financial Insights.
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Workday Cloud Platform: How Customers Are Creating Measurable Business Value
The usefulness of Workday Cloud Platform stems from the innovation, evolving business needs, and creativity of the Workday ecosystem—the growing community of users and developers across customers and services and software partners.
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What’s New in Workday Analytics: A Q&A With Pete Schlampp
Pete Schlampp, general manager, Workday Analytics, shares how new delivery methods are helping our customers glean better insights from their data, and how early Workday People Analytics users are benefitting from the solution.
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Machine Learning Across Workday Products: Delivering Business Value to Customers
Here's how our customers are using machine learning that's been integrated throughout all of Workday's infrastructure to make better business decisions.
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Workday’s Sayan Chakraborty: Why Machine Learning Will Change the Way We Work
Sayan Chakraborty says machine learning’s impact will be much like electricity—world-changing—and ultimately taken for granted. Learn how he and his team are weaving ML into the fabric of Workday to deliver compelling experiences and outcomes.
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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.
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What the Modern Shopper Wants From You
As shoppers keep increasing their demands, retailers are working overtime—and using new technologies—to measure up. Take a look at some examples of increased demand and what they mean for retailers.
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How Nasdaq’s Digital Transformation Is Paying Dividends
Nasdaq finance and technology leaders discuss technology shifts the company is making to ensure its enterprise systems can scale with the global complexity and breadth of its businesses.
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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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Our Perspective on the Future of Privacy Legislation
Discover what Workday has been doing in the area of privacy protections—including industry collaborations, global compliance, and ethical AI—and learn more about our perspectives around privacy in a new paper.
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Managing the Journey to Digital Transformation in Healthcare
A healthcare IT leader shares how to deploy a change management strategy for digital transformation, build an accountable team culture, and gives examples of innovations that are having an impact.
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Global Survey: Outdated Technology Is the No. 1 Threat to Insurers
For years, insurers were squeezing the life out of their legacy systems as a way to avoid high replacement costs. Now, new survey results indicate, insurers realize technology underpins much of their business.
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How Banking Leaders Use Digital Transformation to Drive Agility
In banking, leaders across the business must take a collaborative approach toward digital transformation by starting wherever they are and meeting the front office, where customers interact, in the middle.
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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.
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Research Overview: Unlocking Organizational Agility to Drive Digital Growth
We recently conducted a global study of 998 business leaders across industries, with the goal to understand how companies use organizational agility to successfully deliver digital products and services. Here's a first look at the results.
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Our Vision to Digitize Credentials in the New World of Work
Credentialing is an HR process in dire need of an update. Today, Workday announced our vision to build the world’s most advanced network of verified credentials, powered by a new blockchain-based digital credentialing platform.
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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.
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Shifts in Healthcare IT: How CIOs Can Initiate Transformation
To lead digital transformation efforts in healthcare, CIOs and other IT leaders are shifting how they recruit and interact with employees to better engage and retain top talent.
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Survey Says: Blockchain Is Ready for Primetime
As blockchain technology matures, it's opening up new possibilities for enterprise innovation and competitive advantage.
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Workday Elevate London: How to Innovate When Disruption Is Accelerating
Author and journalist David Rowan shares five key areas he says are pivotal to genuine innovation, meaning innovations that positively transform and help society.
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Highlights of the ‘2019 CIO Virtual Event: Technology Trends of the Future’
In this information-rich, 85-minute virtual event, IT leaders from several organizations discuss the most critical technology changes on the near horizon.
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Workday Earns High Performance Ratings from Healthcare Providers
Workday is a Top Performer in KLAS Research’s "ERP 2019 Performance in the Cloud" report, which reflects high ratings from our customers on product capabilities and our commitment to supporting their success. Here's how we ranked.
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Chuck E. Cheese’s CIO on Talent, Communication, and Cloud Migration
Chuck E. Cheese's CIO Chris Boult shares insights for the retail and hospitality industry on moving to the cloud, educating business peers, and what to look for in IT talent.
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Workday’s Commitments to Ethical AI
Applications that use machine learning (ML) can make predictions that help inform better decisions. Here's our six key principles for responsibly integrating ML.
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Counting on Change in the Accounting Industry
For the accounting industry’s long-term health, KPIs need to change. Here are a some ways firms can move in the right direction.
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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.
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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.
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Why Insurers Are Putting the Back Office in the Driver’s Seat
After having spent years on enhancing front-end customer experiences, wise insurance carriers are taking a hard look at the rest of their outdated systems and moving them to the cloud. Read more to learn why.
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Webinar: Why a Strong Technology Foundation Is Your Best Launchpad for Success
In a webinar series we're doing with Forrester Research, titled “Rocket into 2019: Tech Predictions to Help You Reach New Heights,” experts discuss how IT leaders can build a technology foundation that serves as a launchpad for smarter business strategy and focused innovation. Here's how to register.
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Healthcare Conference Learnings: Connectivity Is Power
Check out key takeaways from the recent HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition on how connectivity, digital transformation, and working towards reforming healthcare together will shape the year ahead.
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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.
