The Next Episode of Interviewing the Experts has Landed

The Next Episode of Interviewing the Experts has Landed

In our Interviewing the Experts series, our Recruitment Specialists sit down with experts in their fields to discuss all the pressing topics in the ecosystem. If you're looking for answers to your burning questions, you've come to the right place!?

Joel Kirkland, Managing Director here at Focus on WD, posed some questions to Darryl Bannan, Workday Financials Solutions Architect, and Fergus Gallagher, Workday HCM Implementation Lead. Darryl and Fergus have worked together on full platform implementations, and are both experts in their fields. Collectively, they have over 35 years' experience in ERP implementations. ?

Joel, Darryl and Fergus delve into the complex world of full platform Workday implementations, including specifics such as:?

? How to approach full platform Launch implementations?

?The post go-live period?

?Staffing models?

?Client-side responsibilities

?Navigating the go-live period

?Their top tips for a successful full platform Workday deployment

...and much more!

You can watch the episode right here ??


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We've been interviewing the experts, and you won't want to miss this one.

We sat down with ānand Iyer, Global HRIS Director and Workday expert, to ask him some burning questions about Workday implementations.

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Find out:

?How to build the right implementation team

?How best to go about a Workday implementation in your industry

?How to leverage the best of Workday for your organisation

?and more...

Check out our article, 'Interviewing the Experts: Workday Implementations Part I' ??

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Did you catch it?

Every year, we like to sit down with our MD, Joel Kirkland, and review the past 12 months - how things have been in the Workday market, what's been going on at the Focus Cloud Group, predictions for the coming year etc...

If you didn't catch it at the time, have a watch now - take a look back on 2023 and let's see whether any of Joel's predictions have come true so far in 2024!


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Dawn Sobota-Tulip

Workday Project Manager at UK Infrastructure Bank

5 个月

It has been an absolute pleasure working with both of you over the last 15 months, bringing in your knowledge and experience into the client-side project team was pivotal to ensuring we could deploy on time and on budget. Thank you for all that you have done during implementation and continue to do on the optimisation of Workday.

Laura Jarvie

Senior Workday Consultant at Focus on WD - Part of the Focus Cloud Group

5 个月

Yes, great insight Fergie & Darren ?????? "it's been 12 months"

Kevin Hunter

CIO/Director of Transformation

5 个月

Brilliant insight as ever - and I can’t thank the 3 of you enough for all you did helping as deploy Workday at UKIB

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