Project Success Stories
Real-world examples of leadership and delivery in complex transformation programs.
Workday HRIS Turnaround: Saving a $5M Rollout
Recovering a critical global HR system under threat
Challenge:
A global HRIS rollout was months delayed and facing executive loss of trust, with poor stakeholder engagement and slipping timelines.
Action:
Introduced recovery governance, established clear workstream ownership, restructured project planning, and rebuilt stakeholder communication.
Result:
Delivered the system within a rebaselined timeline, restored leadership confidence, and enabled long-term system adoption success.
Finance ERP Stabilization After Global Acquisition
Bringing order and compliance post-merger
Challenge:
Following a major acquisition, the client’s Finance ERP system (Oracle Fusion) suffered from poor integration and reporting gaps, risking financial compliance.
Action:
Led a program stabilization effort, redesigned integration flows, improved vendor coordination, and re-established stakeholder reporting and governance structures.
Result:
Restored system stability, closed financial audit findings, and improved CFO confidence ahead of the next phase of rollout.
Integration Platform Overhaul for Cross-System Data Reliability
Strengthening Workday, SAP, and MuleSoft integration flows
Challenge:
The client’s HR and Finance data flows across Workday, MuleSoft, and SAP were suffering from frequent sync errors, leading to operational disruption.
Action:
Redesigned the integration architecture and data lineage monitoring, introduced error handling routines, and implemented proactive monitoring.
Result:
Reduced system errors by 70%, improved integration SLA adherence, and restored trust between IT and business stakeholders.
PMO Setup for Global HRIS Deployment
Establishing project control for a worldwide HR transformation
Challenge:
A global HR transformation lacked formal PMO structure, resulting in scattered efforts, scope drift, and stakeholder frustration.
Action:
Established a structured PMO governance model with clear reporting, milestone tracking, issue escalation paths, and stakeholder engagement frameworks.
Result:
Created project momentum, unified leadership alignment, and delivered phase 1 HRIS modules (Workday Core HR, Recruitment, Learning) on time.
Do you know the Workday Methodology and Approach?
Whichever project you are about to embark on, there is a best practice process. Whether it is:
- Initial deployment: Your Way, Launch, Express
- Phase X
- Company Merger with existing Workday customer
- Acquisition of a non Workday company you need to bring in
- Divesture of part of your company, cleanup your tenant and providing the buyer a WD solution
- Integrations to payroll, AD, SSO etc.
- Data loads and mass actions
How I can help you!
- I understand exactly what a successful deployment of Workday requires for your industry, based on my experience with other large-scale deployments.
- Teamwork and getting organized is a big part of the preparation to make sure your organization is ready.
- You will not be alone in this process. I will help you prepare for a successful deployment and guide you and ask essential pre-design questions and gather information needed during design workshops.
- The tasks that will help you prepare your organization for a smooth deployment range from identifying functional and technical leads for your project, to determining how much data conversion will be needed.
- As with any change, internal preparation important, so I help you prepare your team by asking you think in advance about:
- Ensuring your executive team is aligned to the outcomes you’ve defined.
- Considering what you want to deploy now–address your top priorities first and remember you can adopt additional functionality as your business evolves.
- Preparing your data and processes—prepare for critical-path items, like reports, integrations and other systems you are running to determine what data is most important to migrate.