The right partner. Chosen on evidence.
Independent advisory for selecting your Workday Implementation Partner. We run the RFP. We score the evidence. We give you a board-ready recommendation. UK and US enterprises.
The choice you make now. Decides the outcome later.
The Implementation Partner determines whether your programme delivers the outcome your business case promised.
Most selections are run informally, Workday's recommended shortlist, two SOWs, a gut decision. That's where programmes go sideways before they start.
A structured selection isn't bureaucracy. It's the audit trail your steering committee needs when the decision is questioned later.
Five disciplines. Every selection.
Map the requirements that actually matter.
Stakeholder interviews. Geography, sector, scale, methodology fit, commercial flexibility. Not a generic checklist.
Build a realistic shortlist.
Drawing on direct experience with the major Workday partners and the boutiques. Honest about who fits your scale and complexity, not who has the biggest brand.
Run the RFP. Properly.
NDAs, RFI, RFP, clarifications, presentation design, references, commercial analysis, BAFO. Every score captured against weighted criteria. Every clarification logged.
Evaluate on evidence, not pitch decks.
Multi-evaluator scoring. Proposal and presentation assessed against your scenarios, not theirs. Reference calls structured to surface what reference customers won't say in front of the partner.
Deliver a board-ready recommendation.
Complete pack: scoring rationale, risk register, commercial analysis, named recommendation. Defensible. Auditable. Done.
The SI Vendor Scorecard uses the same evaluation criteria. Score your shortlist in 15 minutes. You'll get a PDF you can take to your steering committee.
Try the SI Vendor Scorecard →Independent. In every direction.
Selection advisory only works if the advisor has no horse in the race. We don't. We don't implement Workday. We don't take referral fees. The only outcome we are paid to optimise is yours.
Workday-aligned, partner-neutral.
We know Workday deeply enough to evaluate partner claims. We have no commercial relationship with any specific implementation partner that would bias the evaluation.
Customer-side, always.
We don't bid for implementation work. There is no conflict on the selection.
Disclosed conflicts, transparent methodology.
Where we've worked closely with a participating partner in the last 24 months, you'll know up front.
Documented end to end.
Every score, every clarification, every decision recorded. You receive the full evidence trail at handover.
Eight artefacts. One audit trail.
- 01Requirements document (signed by your stakeholders)
- 02Partner longlist with shortlist rationale
- 03RFP issued and managed
- 04Scoring matrix with full evidence trail
- 05Capability assessment pack
- 06Reference call summaries
- 07Cost comparison and commercial analysis
- 08Final recommendation pack (board-ready)
Faster if scope is tight. Compressed timelines available where commercially required.
Selection is the first chapter of accountability.
Once your partner is chosen, COMPaaS holds them to the choice. Same independent voice, same evidence-based discipline, throughout delivery.
Once chosen, hold them accountable.
Fractional senior oversight that runs the partner against the SOW every week. The same partner-neutral voice, now positioned across the entire delivery.
Read about COMPaaS →Tactical PM through delivery.
A dedicated Workday-experienced PM on your side of the table. Runs the plan, tracks the commitments, keeps internal teams accountable to dates they signed up for.
Read about Workday PM →Thirty minutes. Where does your partner selection stand?
A structured conversation about your selection. Where you are, who's on the longlist, what governance you need around the decision. You leave with a written summary of what we see, whether or not you engage us.
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