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Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers May 07, 2020
Planning

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?

Jeremiah Barba March 13, 2020
Human Resources

Tech, Media, and the Gig Economy

The gig economy is having a big impact on businesses. Here's what it means for tech and media companies.

Jeremiah Barba March 10, 2020
Human Resources Workday News and Culture

Workday Podcast: Creating More Inroads for Women in Technology

How can women grow their careers in technology, and how can companies draw more women into tech careers and, ultimately, leadership roles? Chris Byrne, senior vice president of global operations at Workday, shares her views on these topics and more.

Mary Hayes Weier March 06, 2020
Human Resources

Winning the Tech Talent War in 2020

When it comes to talent, the tech industry is notoriously competitive. Here’s how you can attract and retain the best of the best.

Jeremiah Barba March 02, 2020
Finance Planning

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.

Greg Thomas February 26, 2020
Analytics and Insights Technology Innovation

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.

Barbara Cosgrove January 16, 2020
Technology Innovation

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.

Jeremiah Barba November 22, 2019
Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers October 03, 2019
Technology Innovation

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.

Jeremiah Barba September 29, 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
Technology Innovation

Entering a New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI), especially machine learning, promises to transform the enterprise as we know it. But just how close is AI to widespread adoption? Read this discussion about AI and machine learning with Workday's Joe Korngiebel and tech leaders from two U.K.-based companies, AstraZeneca and Global Radio.

Steve Dunne February 22, 2019
Workday News and Culture

Workday Ventures: Partnering to Drive Enterprise Innovation

In early 2018, we launched the $250 million Workday Ventures fund. As we reflect on the past year, we want to share several broad themes related to our investments in portfolio companies. Here's one: they support a strong, inclusive future.

Leighanne Levensaler December 28, 2018
Technology Innovation

In Good Company: Women Who Build

There’s a gender imbalance in technology product design, development, and management. What can companies do to recruit and retain more women? How can women grow their careers in tech products? Watch and learn from product leaders at Intuit, New Enterprise Associates, and Workday.

Mary Hayes Weier March 08, 2018
Workday News and Culture

David Clarke: Driving Technology Development at Workday

David Clarke is a technology visionary, with a keen ability to see future opportunities and the confidence in his vision to convince others. Yet he is also a scholar of the past. Read our profile of Senior Vice President David Clarke, who leads the team responsible for driving the foundational technology decisions that power and support all Workday applications.

Mary Hayes Weier February 21, 2018
Workday News and Culture

Three Paths to Innovation: Learnings from a Girl Geek Dinner

At a recent Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner hosted by Workday, Lynn Christensen, senior vice president of product development, led a conversation on how to innovate and find creative solutions to work problems.

Workday Staff Writers January 10, 2018
Technology Innovation

Building Star Teams, Not Star Players

Success comes from building a star team, not a team of individual star players, writes Workday CIO Diana McKenzie. This begins with understanding the strengths of each individual on your team and making sure there's a good mix of attributes each player brings to the table.

Diana McKenzie October 16, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Q&A: Developing Women Engineers Through Girls Who Code

This summer, 20 high school girls have joined Workday for 300 hours of instruction in software design and development. Leah Gilliam, vice president at Girls Who Code, discusses what the girls and participating companies find most rewarding about the summer mentoring program.

Workday Staff Writers July 13, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Why It’s Time to Open Up the Workday Cloud Platform

Workday is taking a big step forward by opening up our platform to customers and a broader ecosystem of partners, independent software vendors, and developers. Read more from Workday Co-Founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri.

Aneel Bhusri July 11, 2017
Technology Innovation

Behind the Cloud Episode 2: Defining the Real Cloud with Holger Mueller

Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research, talks with host David Clarke, senior vice president of technology development at Workday, about characteristics of the cloud that are most critical for the enterprise, why CFOs are embracing the cloud, and why data benchmarking is important for businesses.

Workday Staff Writers June 07, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Workday’s Workforce Week: Helping Others Find Good Jobs in Tech

Income inequality continues to grow, and California’s Bay Area serves as the poster child for this problem. During Workforce Week May 15-19, Workday employees volunteer their time to mentor others seeking roles in the tech sector that offer thriving wage careers, rather than survival wage jobs.

Carrie Varoquiers May 15, 2017
Technology Innovation

The Walkman, the iPhone, and Innovation’s Perfect Storm for Convergence

The iPod and eventually the iPhone made the Walkman obsolete, and consumers have shifted from personal productivity software to the Internet. Yet these innovations didn’t drive change—they resulted from a convergence of changes including new customer demands. Now we’re seeing a similar pattern in the world of enterprise software.

Dan Beck April 27, 2017
Technology Innovation

How to Become a Transformational CIO: Be Brilliant at the Basics

While many CIOs can have all of the passion, eloquence, and skills to be a transformational CIO, the first and most important step is to show how well they're delivering on the core elements of the job. Workday CIO Diana McKenzie explains what it means to be brilliant at the basics.

Diana McKenzie March 28, 2017
Human Resources

In Good Company: Supporting Women in Technology Careers

Gender inequality continues to be a problem in the tech industry. Yet change can happen, and businesses are responsible for helping drive that change. In Good Company guests share best practices for supporting women in tech, discuss how companies can address a gender inequality problem, and share their own strategies for career growth.

Mary Hayes Weier March 08, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Workday CFO: Why Workday Is Among the First to Adopt the New Revenue Recognition Standard

Workday has adopted the new revenue recognition standard ASC 606 a full year before required, and believe we are the first software company to do so. Here's how we did it, and what we learned along the way.

Robynne Sisco February 27, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Highlights of Workday at Lesbians Who Tech and Women Transforming Technology Events

Patty Dingle discusses Workday's participation in two Bay Area events that cultivate a sense of belonging and help women build broader networks within the tech industry.

Patty Dingle February 22, 2017
Technology Innovation

Behind the Cloud Episode 1: What Metadata Means to Development

Workday Chief Architect Jon Ruggiero gives the inside scoop on the benefits of a metadata-focused development strategy in a conversation with Behind the Cloud Host David Clarke.

Workday Staff Writers January 30, 2017
Workday News and Culture

Workday CIO: 4 Tips for Women Building Careers in Technology

Workday CIO Diana McKenzie, along with 70 Workday colleagues, recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. McKenzie shares takeaways from the event on how women can build fulfilling careers in technology.

Diana McKenzie November 08, 2016
Technology Innovation

The 4 Key Requirements for CIOs of the Future

CIOs will continue to have a much broader and more strategic role at their companies in the years to come. Based on current research and input from CIOs, here are four key requirements for future CIOs.

Workday Staff Writers September 14, 2016
Finance

The CFO and CIO: Digital’s Dynamic Duo

Many successes can be attributed to CFO-CIO teamwork, yet there's still room for improvement in the way these two roles collaborate. Deloitte Partner Matt Schwenderman provides valuable advice for a stronger partnership between the CFO and CIO.

Matthew Schwenderman September 01, 2016
Technology Innovation

Video: David Clarke and Jason Fried on Technology, Innovation, and Work

How do you create a culture that promotes innovation? How do you drive greater focus around elegance in design? Watch Workday SVP David Clarke and Basecamp CEO Jason Fried, who discuss these topics and more in a four-part video series.

Workday Staff Writers August 24, 2016
Analytics and Insights

4 Essential Tips for Leading a Smart Data Strategy

The CIO has an incredible opportunity to take the lead on developing a data strategy that results in the best decisions for customers and the business. Workday CIO Diana McKenzie shares lessons learned about guiding a successful data strategy.

Diana McKenzie August 18, 2016
Technology Innovation

How CIOs Can Help CEOs Drive Innovative Growth Strategies

Recent research highlights the CEO’s dependency on the CIO, and shows how technology factors like digital disruption are critical to strategy.

Workday Staff Writers August 05, 2016
Finance

Workday Community Voices: Supporting Rapid Growth at Ensono with a Single System

After its split from marketing technology and services company Acxiom, Ensono is going at it alone—with the help of a single financial management and HR system. Vice President and Controller Alan Cole talks about rapid growth and Ensono's future plans.

Workday Staff Writers July 14, 2016
Technology Innovation

Planning and Supporting Growth: Scalability at Workday, Part 2

Two of Workday’s leading technology experts discuss the role of scalability in meeting customer needs, and how Workday keeps up with different types of customer demands.

Workday Staff Writers June 30, 2016
Technology Innovation

Planning and Supporting Growth: Scalability at Workday, Part 1

In the first of a two-part series, two of Workday's leading technology experts share how a cloud-based enterprise applications provider took a modern approach to scalability.

Workday Staff Writers June 28, 2016
Human Resources

3 Tips for Building a Great Workforce in a Competitive Market

We're honored to be ranked #1 among Bay Area workplaces. Chief People Officer Ashley Goldsmith shares what we've learned about hiring to build a phenomenal workforce in the Bay Area and beyond.

Ashley Goldsmith June 26, 2016
Technology Innovation

Software Development, Leadership, and Innovation in Boulder

Gridcraft, a Boulder, Colo.-based company Workday acquired last year, developed a data analytics tool that uses the spreadsheet look-and-feel and functionality. The result? Non-technical users can more easily identify and analyze useful data from different enterprise application repositories.

Workday Staff Writers June 13, 2016
Technology Innovation

Embrace the Agile Mindset to Deal with Continuous Change

Agile isn't just for software development. Many types of critical projects undergo change, and Workday CTO Stan Swete writes that if businesses apply the agile approach they'll see success rates and time-to-value improve.

Stan Swete June 13, 2016
Workday News and Culture

Q&A: Why Workday is a Top Workplace for New College Graduates

Workday has been ranked in the top 10 among the “50 Best Workplaces for Recent College Graduates” by Fortune.com and Great Places to Work. Megan Baker shares her experience as member of Generation Workday, an early-career development program for Workday employees.

Workday Staff Writers May 25, 2016
Workday News and Culture

Employees Speak Out: What Makes Workday a Great Place to Work?

Workday was once again named one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune. So we decided to pose a few questions to employees such as, “How would you describe Workday in one word?” Watch this video to learn their answers.

Workday Staff Writers March 03, 2016
Human Resources

How Fairchild Semiconductor Applies Continuous Improvement in HR

Staying agile in a fast-changing industry isn't easy. Matt Record of Fairchild Semiconductor shares how they've been able to continuously improve HR operations and attract, engage, and empower global talent.

Workday Staff Writers February 22, 2016
Workday News and Culture

Our Journey Toward a More Diverse Workday

Today, Fortune ranked Workday #6 on its list of the “50 Best Workplaces for Diversity.” Yet diversity isn't an end game, it's a journey, writes Workday CHRO Ashley Goldsmith.

Ashley Goldsmith November 09, 2015
Workday News and Culture

Talking Vertical: Workday’s Approach to Industries

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

Workday Staff Writers August 06, 2015
Technology Innovation

Why Workday Is Different by Design, and Why It Matters

At Workday, a large part of my time is spent explaining how we are different by design. There is a long list of points we make to describe our different approach, but at the core the main difference between Workday and traditional enterprise applications is how we’ve made the object model the core of our architecture.

Stan Swete August 06, 2012