Workday Advisory Partners

A Workday Advisory Partner works on the early, strategic stages of a Workday programme: readiness assessment, target operating-model design, business-case development, and vendor or partner selection. They typically do not deliver the build themselves.

Where possible, keep the two roles separate. An advisor who is not also bidding to deliver the implementation has no incentive to steer you toward a larger, more complex build than you need. Some large firms hold both Advisory and Services designations — if you engage one for both roles, scrutinise the recommendations that increase implementation scope.

Engage an Advisory Partner before you commit to a Services Partner or a delivery timeline — ideally while you are still building the business case and defining requirements. This is also the stage to run a structured requirements process so every implementation bid you later collect is comparable.