In the nearly two years following Covid-19, higher education has undergone an unprecedented uptake in digital transformation. Many higher education institutions are long overdue for modernization, having used the same technology for 20 years or longer. The digital revolution is moving forward and whether willing or unwilling, higher ed leaders know they need to get onboard and adapt.
If you’ve been paying attention to updates from Workday, you may know that People Experience is coming in September’s Workday release. If you opted out of People Experience in the March 2022 major release, here are some things to consider as you prepare your organization adopt Workday Today before the September 10 deadline.
A short story on my car history
Installing software at a hospital can be like taking a road trip across the country with a caravan of cars. In one car, you have the IT department. In the other cars, you have the end users. The goal of the trip is the same for everyone – to arrive safely at the destination as quickly as possible.
Medicine has been plagued by a culture of paternalism since . . . while, since forever. It’s still around, of course, but we’ve come a long way in the last few decades. I cringe when I watch movies from the 1940s and 1950s portraying a physician sharing private medical information with a woman’s husband because she couldn’t be trusted to understand complicated health information. Or maybe because she would react “hysterically” to a poor prognosis. While those sexist stereotypes are hopefully on their way out, I still see some physicians continue in less obvious, but still paternalistic, ways.
We’ve all heard the stereotypes. Project Managers: IT geeks that are excited by spreadsheets and their only interaction with people is through a computer screen. Their only job is to check off boxes when things are completed and then deliver a perfect outcome for a project.
Your organization has made it: you’re live on Workday! But now that the excitement of the go-live moment has passed, you’re likely wondering…what’s next?
It’s an exciting time when a higher education institution decides to deploy Workday. A next-gen cloud ERP is transformational in and of itself, impacting how work gets done across the entire institution. Success with cloud ERP transformation depends on preparing the people leading and impacted by the change. However, getting everyone at the institution comfortable with change can be challenging. Here are some things to consider when readying your institution for a Workday project.
The amount of data created every day is staggering. According to industry sources, more than 181 zettabytes of data will be created by 2025. However, despite the abundance of data, many higher education institutions struggle with extracting value from their data. Driving value requires a culture change and a solution to make data accessible. Democratizing data, or enabling access to data for everyone across the institution, creates barrier-free access so leaders can make data-driven, effective decisions.
There are many aspects of a hospital infrastructure, from the electrical and plumbing systems to the HVAC to the grounds work that patients probably don’t notice, until they fail. Patients that have a poor experience – whether from a leaky faucet or out-of-service elevator – can impact patient satisfaction survey scores, hospital ratings and reimbursements.