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You're Live on Workday. Now What? A Practical Guide to the First 90 Days
The go-live celebration was last week. The SI is wrapping up hypercare. Your team is running production payroll for the first time. Everyone is relieved. And now the real work begins. What your organisation does in the first 90 days determines whether Workday becomes a platform that delivers increasing value or a system your team spends three years trying to keep running.
Your SI Says You're Ready for Go-Live. Are You Sure?
Your SI wants you live. You need to stay live. Here's what independent client-side oversight actually looks like at go-live, and why the difference matters.
The Benefits of Independent Programme Oversight for UK Workday Customers
Most UK organisations will select an SI through rigorous procurement, assign internal resources, and build a governance structure. What most won't do is put anyone on their side of the table whose sole job is to protect the organisation's interests throughout delivery. That gap is where independent oversight sits.
What is 360 HCM Advisory? And why most Workday Programmes need it.
Your SI produces the status reports, runs the steering committees, and defines what on track looks like. That is a structural conflict of interest. Here is why independent Workday advisory changes the dynamic, and what it actually involves.
Top Tips for a Successful Workday Go-Live
Most Workday go-live problems are not caused by a bad cutover day. They are caused by months of decisions, deferred risks, and advice that was never truly independent. Here is what a successful go-live actually requires
Accelerate Your Workday Time to Value: 7 Practical Strategies That Actually Work
The implementation delivers the platform. What happens in the twelve to twenty-four months after go-live determines whether the organisation gets genuine return on a multimillion-pound investment or simply replaces one system with another and calls it transformation
Workday Project Recovery: How to Get Your Implementation Back on Track
Most organisations don't admit a failing Workday implementation fast enough. The silence is expensive. Here's a practical, no-nonsense guide to Workday project recovery, from root cause diagnosis to getting back on track.
Why your Workday Implementation needs Client-Side Leadership (and what that actually means)
Your SI has done this 50 times. Has anyone on your side of the table actually led a Workday deployment before? That expertise gap is where budgets overrun, timelines slip, and change orders go unchallenged.
AMS Vendor Selection: Evaluating Workday AMS Vendors for Your Success
Choosing the right AMS vendor for your Workday implementation can make or break your project. This guide cuts through the noise and gives you a structured, experience-driven approach to evaluating vendors, avoiding common pitfalls, and selecting a strategic partner who will keep your project on track and within budget.
The Hard Truth about Workday Implementations: Five Lessons From 14 years on both sides of the table
Different clients. Different industries. Different implementation partners. Same problems. After 14 years leading Workday programmes on both sides of the table, these are the five lessons I'd want every organisation to hear before they start.
Why Most Workday Operating Models Look Fine on Paper and Fail in Practice
Six months after go-live, most Workday teams are in trouble and don't realise it yet. The implementation partner has rolled off. Feature releases are piling up. Enhancement requests are growing faster than anyone can triage. And the operating model that looked sensible during hypercare is quietly buckling.
What a Workday Programme Manager Actually Does (And Why Generic PMs Struggle)
A good generic PM will build a detailed plan and track status. On a UK Workday programme, that is not enough. They have to know parallel payroll cycles, pension auto-enrolment design, HMRC year-end timing, and how IR35 shapes who you can even engage in the role. Most generic PMs miss all of it.
Accountability Is the Missing Ingredient in Most Workday Programmes
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.
Who's Watching the Watchers? Why Workday Governance Decides Your Go-Live Outcome
When one vendor controls the plan, the resources, and the change narrative, governance becomes theatre. Here is what real client-side oversight looks like.
The Real Cost of Change Orders on Workday Programmes (and how to prevent them)
A client budgeted £2.5 million for their Workday implementation. Eighteen months later they had spent £3.7 million across 23 change orders. Most were preventable.
Hiring the Right Workday Project Leader: What Most Organisations Get Wrong
Workday programmes fail for leadership reasons, not technology ones. How to hire a client-side leader who can hold the SI accountable and protect the outcome.
Questions to Ask Your Potential Workday AMS Partner
Twenty questions to ask every shortlisted Workday AMS vendor before you sign.
Top 10 Tips for a successful Workday implementation
Consider these top 10 tips when embarking upon your Workday Implementation Journey.
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