HR Transformation Advisory
Independent advice for organisations implementing Workday, from partner selection and governance through to go-live, ownership and continuous improvement.
Why advisory
Implementation partners are focused on configuration and the go-live date. What often falls back on you is everything else: the decisions, the data, the testing, the training and making sure your organisation can actually run what was built.
We've led Workday programmes from the client side. We know the questions to ask early, the scope traps to avoid and what “ready” really looks like.
em-ply Delivery Assurance
Bring us in before you sign, part-way through the build, or after go-live. Each phase stands on its own.
Phase 1
Workday has been chosen, or nearly. This is where the most avoidable risk sits, so we help you set the programme up properly before the build starts.
Phase 2
While your partner configures and builds, we keep design decisions moving, protect your scope and timeline, and check the work is fit for your organisation.
Phase 3
The focus shifts from launch to improvement: stabilising, refining reporting and making sure your internal team can own the tenant with confidence.
Working together
Keep the partner you have and add an independent advisor, or let em-ply lead with advisory built in.
Option 1
Another partner is building your system. We sit on your side of the table: owning the plan, challenging scope and change requests, keeping governance tight and getting your people ready to run what's built.
Option 2
em-ply leads the programme. The same people who shaped the plan stay to deliver it, with readiness, data and adoption covered from day one rather than handed to someone else.
FAQs
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Strategic, independent support for the organisation implementing Workday. Your implementation partner configures and deploys the system; an advisor helps you manage governance, make decisions, control scope and prepare your people to own the system after go-live.
Your partner is responsible for building the system to the agreed scope. We're responsible to you: we challenge assumptions, review design decisions and change requests, check testing and readiness, and make sure what's delivered works for your organisation.
Ideally before you sign the statement of work, when scope, resourcing and timelines are still open. We also help programmes that are already running, especially when timelines are slipping or decisions are stuck.
We support hypercare and stabilisation, refine reporting, help you manage Workday's twice-yearly releases, and hand over to your internal team with the documentation and training they need.
No. Workday is often the centrepiece, but transformation also covers your HR operating model, processes, data and how people work. We help with all of it, whichever platform you use.
Every engagement is shaped by where your programme is, what's at stake and what your team can take on. Tell us what you're facing and we'll suggest the simplest way we can help.
