Workday Advisory Services

Our in-depth digital transformation knowledge and expertise allow us to help customers determine what’s best for their specific needs and how to maximize business value for long-term success. We guide clients through the entire digital acceleration process, including strategy and planning, product selection, business process alignment, data readiness, change management, and much more. Our goal is to help customers navigate the constantly changing landscape of technology to stay ahead of the curve and achieve their business objectives faster and more efficiently.

Organizational Change Management

Oakland's Organizational Change Management services provided in conjunction with Workday implementations are designed to help ensure the success of both technology and organizational changes. These services address cultural, process, and/or system changes that occur from the implementation project and create a process for creating, sustaining, and transferring ownership of change.

The service offering may include:

Change Leadership for organizational vision, strategy and outcomes.
Building Organizational Readiness for Change to define pathways for change and align stakeholders.
Change Risk Management to identify and address risks associated with change.
Communication Planning to ensure clarity and consistency of change messaging.
Change Management Advisory to ensure implementation success including training, coaching, and mentoring.

Learn how we can help your business get the most out of its Workday deployment by making the transition and adoption smooth.

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Project/Program Management

Oakland's proven pre-implementation readiness methodology that aligns with Workday progressive (agile) project delivery methodology to best prepared and positioned for a successful Workday project deployment. We have a team of extensive Workday experienced project managers and consultants. Our Workday skilled project managers will lead your organization in setting up PMO office, evaluation, building business case, executive buy-in, planning and aligning your project methodology with Workday deployment methodology.

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Governance Modeling

Oakland comprehends a strong governance is important for a successful project deployment. We work with your organization PMO team to setup the governance model, plan, schedule, manage, execute, monitor and maintain. We help to manage the scope and schedule for a successful project deployment through the strong governance model.

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Business Process Alignment

Oakland's proven pre-implementation readiness methodology step of business process alignment (BPA) goal is to ensure that the people, processes, and technology of the organization all support and contribute to achieve the success of the project. Our BPA approach typically comprises multiple components such as a clear definition of the current state and the desired future state of the organization and the steps taken to achieve it, a process model to better visualize the end-to-end process, analysis of the current process performance, and various actionable plans for improvement.

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Data Readiness

Oakland's proven pre-implementation readiness methodology step of data readiness prior to starting a Workday implementation or engaging an implementation partner goal is to ensure that all necessary data sources and format have been identified and understood. In addition, establish a centralized data repository that includes data transformation, validation and missing data creation (where required) to be ready for the data provisioning to achieve success in converting data for your Workday implementation.

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Advisory Support

Oakland's advisory support for our Workday implementation was outstanding. Their expert guidance on data readiness, governance models and project management kept us on track, while their ongoing project delivery support gave us the confidence to succeed.

— CIO | State Government

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