Harvard Business Review: 4 Ways Procurement Is Evolving in 2021 and Beyond
Harvard Business Review finds that procurement’s role in the enterprise is evolving, and explains how leaders can empower their teams to act strategically.
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Technology Innovation
Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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Workday Extend: Building New Business Capabilities for HR and Finance With Speed and Simplicity
Workday Extend empowers our customers to confidently build, deploy, and manage new business capabilities for finance and HR. Architected on the same platform as Workday's applications, Extend delivers enterprise scale and speeds development.
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How Sun Life Uses Workday Extend and People Experience to Engage Employees
Learn how the financial services company extended the power of Workday to make the employee experience smoother and more productive—especially as it looks ahead to bringing employees back to the office.
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Workday Podcast: Technology Trends and Strategies in Healthcare
Keith Lohkamp, senior director, healthcare industry strategy at Workday, talks with Ray Wang, principal analyst, founder, and chairman at Constellation Research, about technology trends and strategies healthcare organizations are adopting to keep up with industry standards and adapt in the changing world of healthcare.
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Asia-Pacific Leaders Share How Digital Agility Is Enabling Them to Emerge Stronger
While the pandemic has created many challenges, The Salvation Army Australia and City Developments Limited of Singapore have also found the disruption has led to new and better ways of working. Learn more from their talk during our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World.
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How Resilience Became A Powerful Enabler for Business Continuity—and Ingenuity
Leighanne Levensaler, executive vice president of corporate strategy at Workday and managing director and co-head of Workday Ventures, discusses how the pandemic has accelerated key business initiatives such as cloud computing, worker reskilling, and inclusive company cultures.
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5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2021
When we look back on 2020, we’ll likely regard it as the year digital transformation reached escape velocity. Jim Stratton, chief technology officer at Workday, expects big leaps in these technology areas this year.
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Discovering the Power of Agility, Collaboration, and Employee Engagement
Workday CIO Sheri Rhodes reflects on a year that was challenging but not without silver linings—including a greater understanding of how to adapt to rapid and unexpected change.
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Video: A Discussion on AI Ethics, Privacy, and Regulation With Amie Stepanovich of CU Boulder
The increasing use of AI and ML is raising new questions around privacy, ethics, and regulation. Workday’s Jim Shaughnessy talked with Amie Stepanovich from the University of Colorado, Boulder to learn more.
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Workday Podcast: Driving Innovation in Healthcare IT
Sarah Richardson, vice president of IT change leadership at Optum, and Joe Wilson, chief technology officer for North America at Workday, discuss how healthcare IT is evolving, the importance of alignment across business functions, and how communication is key for effective digital transformation.
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Reimagining Productivity to Spur Innovation
We’re thinking of common business challenges in fresh ways to help make our customers more productive, collaborative, and informed. Learn more about our built-in Workday Productivity Suite, consisting of Workday Drive, Worksheets, and Slides for early adopters.
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Lessons from 2020: How Agility and Resilience Have Defined Successful Business Leadership
COVID-19 has accelerated the pace of digital transformation for many businesses. Carolyn Horne, our president, EMEA, looks at how a disruptive 2020 has acted as a catalyst for change—and how business leaders are increasing agility and building resilience within their organisations.
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How We Can Collaborate to Empower the Future Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged local economies and led to high unemployment. We believe there is an innovative solution to help address these challenges: the creation of skills-based talent marketplaces.
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Understanding the Basics: What Is Higher Education Software?
This blog looks at how a modern higher education software enables educational leaders to foster student success, develop more effective business processes, gain deeper insights across the organization, and navigate a disruptive landscape.
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Workday Ventures: Investing in Companies That Help All People Access Opportunities
At this week’s All Raise VC Summit 2020, female/non-binary investors are gathering virtually to discuss how to create a more equitable future for all. Betsy Bland, vice president and managing director of Workday Ventures, shares how our portfolio companies are helping to elevate people and reduce barriers to opportunity.
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Workday Podcast: How Citrix Is Closing the Skills Gap With Machine Learning
During times of disruption, it’s critical for businesses to have the right skill sets to be able to quickly respond and adapt. Trenton Cycholl, vice president of business technology at Citrix, shares how machine learning can help companies close the skills gap.
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ChristianaCare: Embracing a Culture of Agility and Innovation
Kevin Kain, director of financial planning and operational analysis, and Kristen Raber, corporate director, Cloud Innovation Lab at ChristianaCare, share how the healthcare provider has rapidly adapted to change while continuing to drive digital transformation within the organization and provide affordable, high quality care for the communities it serves.
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Global Study: Organizational Agility Is Crucial During Global Pandemic
The second installment of our global survey, “Organizational Agility At Scale: The Key to Driving Digital Growth,” found that the pandemic has forced business leaders the world over to take a hard look at what they’re doing right, and what needs improving inside their own organizations.
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The Foundation of the Workday Skills Cloud
Skills are the fundamental currency of the changing world of work, and we believe our skills cloud is a true differentiator for talent optimization. Workday CTO Jim Stratton provides a closer look at how we’ve engineered skills cloud to provide the greatest possible value to our customers.
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How Cooperative Purchasing of Cloud Solutions Supports Higher Education and the Public Sector
Cooperative purchasing agreements and group contract vehicles allow higher education and public sector organizations to adopt cloud-based finance, human resources, planning, and student technologies more quickly and efficiently.
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CEO Perspective: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Businesses
Artificial intelligence (AI) enables business leaders to focus their time on the challenges that really matter. Workday Co-Founder and Co-CEO Aneel Bhusri, Nasdaq President and CEO Adena Friedman, and Fortune President and CEO Alan Murray share their thoughts on how AI will further shape the future of business.
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Schrems II: The Path Forward
Following the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in the “Schrems II” case, some wondered what it would mean for cross-border data transfers and whether they remained valid. Upon more analysis, they remain intact—with some caveats.
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Workday Podcast: A Smarter, More Ethical Future With Machine Learning
On today’s Workday Podcast, we examine the role AI and ML play in economics and the intricate relationship between human, machine, and society at large. Ajay Agrawal, co-author of “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence,” joins Workday Executive Vice President of Technology Sayan Chakraborty to discuss the AI landscape and how it has changed since the book’s publication.
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Global Study: How Media Companies Lead in Organizational Agility
The streaming wars rage on with renewed urgency as people seek solace, escape, or understanding from the comfort of their homes. In the middle of this, organizational agility is more important than ever.
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Creating a Culture That Fosters Product and Technology Innovation
Pete Schlampp, executive vice president of product development, and Sayan Chakraborty, executive vice president of technology, discuss how Workday’s culture encourages out-of-the-box thinking and creativity, which enables us to create products and technology that are changing the way people work.
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Global Study: The Organizational Agility Lessons from Higher Education
Higher education has a lot to teach other industries when it comes to organizational agility. Although our study was conducted prior to the global pandemic, many of the pain points and opportunities identified by higher education respondents look prophetic in hindsight.
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Schrems II Data Transfer Decision: What It Means for Workday Customers
Today, an update regarding the validity of data transfer mechanisms was announced by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as a result of what has become known as the “Schrems II” case. To provide clarity on what this ruling means, and what to expect from Workday in our ongoing commitment to data privacy protections, we're sharing this brief FAQ.
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How Workday Integration Cloud Accelerates Digital Transformation for Our Customers
Workday Integration Cloud is key to our customers’ fast and successful transition to the cloud—and for their continued success as business needs, tools, and technologies continue to evolve.
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Workday Podcast: Workday’s CTO on Zero Trust Security and the Changing Nature of Work
How should businesses be thinking about IT security in the current climate? Workday's North America CTO Archana Ramamoorthy discusses cybersecurity, the concept of “zero trust,” and why businesses need to stay one step ahead of the game.
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Reimagining Talent, Work, and Workplaces in a COVID-19 World
Mark Peek talks with Frida Polli, CEO of pymetrics, a Workday Ventures company, about the impact of recent events on hiring, redeployment, and skills.
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Workday Podcast: The Future of Enterprise Privacy
Jules Polonetsky, CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum, and Barbara Cosgrove, Workday’s chief privacy officer, talk about why it’s important to take a global view of privacy, what a chief privacy officer does, and how privacy leaders create value by working together.
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Nebraska Medicine: How Alignment and Strategic Partnerships Enable Transformation
Brian Lancaster, vice president of information technology at Nebraska Medicine, shares how his organization has approached its innovation strategy to better support employees and enable effective transformation.
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CIO Leadership and COVID-19: Protecting Data Assets
The CIO plays a pivotal role in an organization’s ability to respond, recover, and emerge even stronger following this global crisis. Read the last in our three-part series on technology leadership through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How Workday Launch Provides Customers Quick Time-To-Value
As part of our deployment strategy and to help support our customers and their changing business needs, we're announcing that Workday Launch, a preconfigured approach to help customers get up and running on Workday more quickly, is available to qualified large enterprise organizations in the U.S.
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The CIO’s Role in Creating an Adaptable Architecture and Digital-First Business
Businesses must become more agile to deal with an uncertain economic landscape. Here are highlights from an IDC White Paper that explores the CIO’s role in creating a digital-first organization and a more agile business.
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Workday for Microsoft Teams: Helping Our Customers Work More Efficiently
We’re excited to announce Workday for Microsoft Teams, which empowers people to get daily activities done faster and more efficiently by bringing Workday into a natural workspace used by many of our customers.
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Workday Extend Is Now Generally Available
Workday Extend (formerly called Workday Cloud Platform) fosters an even more connected, adaptable, and extensible Workday. Learn how our customers are already using it to adapt to rapid changes brought on by the pandemic.
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Behind the Cloud Episode 7: Creating Digital Identities for a Changing World of Work
James Cross talks with David Clarke about why the current state of credentialing is in dire need of an update, and what Workday is doing to improve how we share information about ourselves—such as our skills, degrees, and capabilities—in the future.
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Workday Podcast: Higher Education and the Future of Skills Development After COVID-19
How will a wounded economy change expectations around upskilling or new skills development? And how will those changing expectations affect higher education? Our two guests on the Workday Podcast share their insights into the impact of COVID-19 on colleges and universities.
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CIO Leadership and COVID-19: Ensuring Critical Business Processes
In the second of our three-part series for CIOs, we look at specific steps technology leaders can take to maintain critical business processes during times of crisis or significant business upheaval.
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Using Enterprise Technology Expertise to Fight COVID-19
Here’s the story of three Workday employees who were inspired to develop solutions to help those suffering from the coronavirus, and lessen the spread of the disease in their communities.
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CIO Leadership and COVID-19: Supporting a Suddenly Remote Workforce
The CIO plays a pivotal role in an organization’s ability to respond, recover, and return to growth following this global crisis. Read the first in our three-part series on technology leadership through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Research Overview: Unlocking Organizational Agility to Drive Digital Growth
We 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 for a changing world. Here's an overview of the results.
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Building an IT Organization That Prepares for 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.
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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.
