WORKDAY INSIGHTS

A good generic PM will build a detailed plan and track status. But if they don't understand Workday's configuration sequence, testing dependencies, and cutover failure points, the plan falls apart three months in - and by then you've lost weeks and budget.

Every Workday programme I've seen had talented people working hard. Status meetings happening. Slides updated. Risks listed. But when something went wrong, no one could answer one question: who actually owns the outcome? That's not a people problem. That's a design problem.

Your SI is measured on utilisation, margin, and throughput. That doesn't make them bad actors — it makes them a business. But when one vendor controls the plan, the resources, and the change narrative, governance becomes theatre. Here's what real oversight looks like.

I worked with a client who budgeted $3.2 million for their Workday implementation. Eighteen months later, they'd spent $4.7 million. When I asked their CFO what happened, she pulled out a folder containing 23 change orders. Here's what nobody told her: most of them were preventable.

Workday implementations fail due to leadership, not technology. Learn how to hire a Workday project leader who protects your budget, timeline, and outcomes