Practical points of view on HR technology, AI readiness, Workday optimisation and what organisations should be thinking about next.
Where we watch for release changes, product announcements and roadmap signals, and what we think they mean for our clients.
Every organisation running Workday already has a list of things it wants AI to do. Very few have switched anything on, and fewer still are demonstrating delivery of value back to the organisation.
48% of non-CEO executives say they are confident in their organisation’s AI value case, against 62% of CEOs, a fourteen-point gap that shows the case has not travelled past the top of the house. (BCG, AI Radar 2026)
41% of organisations name resistance to change as the single biggest barrier to scaling AI, and only 14% say their leaders are consistently championing adoption. (McKinsey, The State of Organizations 2026)
80% of enterprises say their AI and data initiatives are still constrained by limited data access across environments, and only 18% describe their data as fully governed. (Cloudera, The Data Readiness Index 2026)
70% of organisations have not reached a mature level of governance and agentic AI controls, and nearly two-thirds name security and risk concerns as the top barrier to scaling agentic AI further. (McKinsey, State of AI Trust in 2026)
94% of organisations are failing to realise measurable business impact from their AI pilots, with only 6% reporting real value. Two separate 2026 surveys, BCG and McKinsey, land on that same number independently. (BCG, AI Radar 2026; McKinsey, State of AI 2026)
The best insights come from real questions. Tell us what you’re working through.
Pre-decision, mid-implementation, optimising, or preparing for AI, tell us where you are and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Sometimes you need people rather than a project. Fifteen years of Workday recruitment, and a network we use ourselves.
Permanent, contract or FTC placement, or day-rate augmentation. We flex to how you need to hire.
Permanent, contract and FTC across UK, EMEA and North America.
“I worked closely with Lucas Kennedy during the Workday Services Programme at bp and they helped me hugely. They were proactive, they cared and we ended up with 35 of the team via LK recommendations. Truly excellent!”
bp
Support from the people who built it. UK-based with nearshore support from Madrid, and it already knows your configuration.
Named consultants and agreed service levels, monthly. Scale the service up or down as your tenant and your team change.
Measured across engagements.
“When I call, I speak to someone who already knows the answer.”
Technology Company
Go-live is the start of the return, not the end of the project. Most partners are gone before real value shows up.
We do the work with your team, not to one side of it. Fixed price for a defined optimisation, or day rate while the backlog is still forming.
At Jupiter Asset Management, after Adaptive Planning.
“They made sure our finance team genuinely owned it after go-live.”
Mid-Market Business
Recommendations are everywhere. Delivery is rare. We deploy Workday end to end, working as one team with our Advisory practice, with resources across the UK and EMEA and expertise from every side of the table — customer, partner and Workday itself.
We lead delivery end to end — design, build, integrate, test and go-live — working as one team with our Advisory practice, so the strategy you signed off on is the delivery you get. Backed by consultants who’ve deployed Workday from every seat: as the customer, the partner, and Workday.
Our team spans the UK and EMEA with deep bench strength. Ex-Workday, ex-partner and customer-side experience, certified across HCM, Financials, Payroll, Adaptive Planning and integrations.
“They made calls that cost them time, not us. That’s when we knew they were actually on our side.”
Global Financial Services
We have no software to resell, so the advice stays honest. We’d rather tell you what you actually need than sell you what we’d like to.
We sit on your side of the table, with no software to resell. Fixed price for a defined piece of work, or time and materials while the question is still forming.
Our leaders have sat on the client side of a Workday programme, worked inside Workday partners, and worked for Workday themselves. That’s judgement built from every seat at the table.
“The advisory team gave us honest, direct guidance. They didn’t oversell the technology.”
Professional Services
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