Workday Podcasts

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. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-driving-innovation-healthcare-IT.html

How Finance-as-a-Service Helps CFOs Accelerate Transformation of the Finance Function

Does the on-demand model work for the finance function? Matt Schwenderman, principal global Workday finance lead at Deloitte, and Scott Van Valkenburgh, global alliances and channels lead at Genpact, share how Finance-as-a-Service helps CFOs accelerate digital finance transformation. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/how-finance-as-a-service-helps-CFOs-accelerate-transformation-finance-function.html

VMware’s Holistic Approach to the Virtual Workplace

Amy Gannaway, vice president of global compensation, benefits, and HRIS at VMware, explains the innovative steps her organization is taking to help 40,000 global employees balance their virtual work and home lives. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-VMwares-holistic-approach-virtual-workplace.html

Why Embracing Agility is Key in the Toughest of Times

It’s fair to say that COVID-19 and the stop-start global economy have wreaked havoc on businesses of all sizes in 2020. As organizations look for new ways of working, new revenue streams and innovative ways of getting back to some form of normal, the question of agility comes into sharpened focus.
In this episode, Craig Crawford, a digital transformation strategist and “founderpreneur” of Crawford IT chats with Steve Dunne about the concept of agility, what that actually means in 2020, and how business leaders can make it real at a time when they have a billion other priorities.

Global Media Giant Improves Internal Insights

Media-insights company Kantar is connecting the dots among its workforce’s tools, processes, cultures, and skills across 77 countries. On this episode of the Workday Podcast, Nadia Hutchinson, an HR leader at Kantar, explains how. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-global-media-giant-improves-business-insights.html

How Citrix Is Closing the Skills Gap With Machine Learning

In times of uncertainty, every business needs its workforce to have the right skills to adapt to disruptive change. On this episode of the Workday Podcast, Trenton Cycholl, vice president of business technology at Citrix, shares how his company is using machine learning to close the skills gap and become more agile. To learn move, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-how-citrix-Is-closing-skills-gap-machine-learning.html

Radical Cooperation in Higher Learning

Ravi Ravishanker, CIO at Wellesley College, and Derek Wolf, vice president of customer success at Alchemy, a Workday services partner, tell us how three colleges worked together to better adopt a new technology platform. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-radical-cooperation-in-higher-learning.html

Manufacturing Success Starts with Employees

From the internet of things to the continued adoption of automation, the manufacturing industry is facing rapidly changing skills requirements. Tina Seashore, leader of global rewards at Oshkosh Corporation and Jeff Riccono, customer success lead at Mercer, discuss how digitization is impacting the skills and talent needed for the current and future manufacturing workforce. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-manufacturing-success-starts-with-employees.html

The British Heart Foundation Pumps Efficiency Into Workflows

Human resources workflows are the lifeblood of organizations. Kerry Smith, director of people and organizational development at the British Heart Foundation—and recipient of HR Magazine’s Most Influential Practitioners award—shares how her organization improved the health of its culture. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-the-british-heart-foundation-pumps-efficiency-into-workflows.html

The Power of Planning in Today’s Businesses

Ethan Carlson, vice president at Alight Solutions, discusses the strong correlation between continuous planning and business agility, how technology enables planning, and why organizations are empowering people beyond the finance team with planning capabilities. To learn more, visit the original podcast blog here: https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/workday-podcast-power-planning-todays-businesses.html