Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.
Organizations dedicated to their role in the global movement toward sustainability have put responsible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices at the forefront. Deloitte’s Rikki Stancich and Andrew Wood describe how to use Workday Adaptive Planning to assess ESG metrics, determine improvement goals, and report progress.
The gap between the intensifying rate of change and an organization’s ability to keep up with it is a strategic problem with painful results. Here’s what’s required to close the gap.
The enterprise management cloud can help organizations remove friction in their finance processes to achieve greater efficiency and add enterprise value. Workday's Barbara Larson lays out the process.
Workday’s latest CFO Indicator survey asked 267 CFOs around the globe about their plans and priorities for the next five years. Learn how those who were identified as “finance outperformers” are leading the way by investing in skills and technology for the future.
The pace of business is even faster now as companies plan for life after COVID-19. What's trending today becomes tomorrow’s disruption—and tomorrow’s disruption will eventually define a new way of working.
Gartner gave it a name, but the concept of Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) isn't new. Learn more about xP&A and what it means for your enterprise.
The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.
Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, science, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.
Understanding a company’s key variables and how to react to different outcomes can help leaders respond to future challenges—and succeed in turbulent times.
A Workday global survey reveals how finance leaders are looking to invest in digital transformation to address growing data challenges and emerging topics.
CFOs and other finance leaders recognize that future business survival requires greater agility in planning, reporting, and resource-capacity management. And while organizations will employ their own strategy for meeting these goals, a recent survey reveals that most leaders prioritize the adoption of smart technologies and cross-functional skills sharing.
This article looks at a global survey of 162 finance managers and senior executives that reveals significant conflicts between finance leaders’ aspirations and how they do their day-to-day work.
We’re delighted to announce that Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises. We’ve continued to invest in our unique architecture and intelligent data foundation to ensure our customers have the robust analytics and automation they need to respond to a changing world.
The pandemic has created momentum for the remote workforce and there’s no going back, with one study predicting the total percentage of work from home employees will double in 2021. With this big change, one thing is for certain: Decades-old workforce planning processes will no longer work.
The post-pandemic world, when it arrives, will transform many aspects of business as usual. As a result, CEOs will turn to finance leaders who not only have accounting experience, but also wider operational backgrounds and a broader mix of business experience.
As businesses seek to rebound from the global pandemic, the rise of intelligent automation will change the way organizations operate forever. This article examines how technologies such as machine learning will reshape the office of the CFO.
We’re proud to once again be recognized for our completeness of vision and ability to execute, especially at such a pivotal moment for businesses and economies.
Leaders need good quality data to make real-time decisions and steer their businesses on a path to normality. This article looks at three key insights finance leaders should be delivering to the business, and why they are so important today.
When finance leaders were cast into the chaos caused by the global pandemic, many discovered that in the face of economic tumult, the ability to operate with agility is exactly what’s needed to prevent their businesses from capsizing.
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Finance leaders are in a critical position to help assess the options and impacts associated with returning to the workplace, including how the business can grow and react differently in the future.
Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?
Having the tools for data-driven decision making enables organizations to plan, pivot, and build strategic partnerships that support business continuity, growth, and changes in the healthcare industry.
As organizations try to make sense of an economic landscape that continues to evolve, business planning becomes more important than ever. Kinnari Desai, senior director of corporate finance at Workday, discusses scenario modeling and the importance of agility in planning.
The finance team is at the forefront of leading a business through uncertain times. What should CFOs be focused on? In this article, we look at five key areas to prioritize.
Workday Vice Chairman Tom Bogan, who led Adaptive Insights through to its acquisition by Workday, discusses the urgent need for agility in today’s environment and how it impacts an organization’s longevity.
