This document provides an overview of Adaptive Insights' financial and workforce planning solutions and the customer journey for implementing them. It discusses how Adaptive Insights can help organizations improve planning processes, increase collaboration, accelerate planning cycles, and provide more strategic insights. The customer journey is broken into phases focusing initially on processes, people, and basic models before expanding to include more advanced modeling, additional data sources, and broader organizational usage. Demo examples are provided of customers who realized increased efficiency, faster planning cycles, and better visibility through their Adaptive Insights implementation.
2. Mapping Your Planning Journey with
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5. Mapping Your Planning Journey with
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6. Agenda
Planning with Adaptive Insights
Value Framework
Customer Journey: People, Process, Model, Data
Financial Planning Journey
Workforce Planning Journey
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7. Navigating the Changing World
Fluctuating
Regulations
Supply and Demand
Disruptions
Remote Workforce
8. Planning is the Path to Business Agility
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19. Adaptive Insights Value Proposition
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Reallocate Finance
Time to Drive
Change
Improve Visibility
and Enhance
Collaboration
Faster Cycles and
Trusted Data
Frequent
Forecasting and
What-if Modeling
Be More Strategic Accelerate Decisions
30-50% productivity
improvement
Accelerate planning
and reporting by 50-
70%
Empower business with
timely visibility into
performance
Better and faster
decisions and earlier
course corrections
Improved performance and business outcomes
* Based on Adaptive Insights Customer Value Realization Survey, 2019, 201 customer respondents
20. Customer Value Realization Survey Highlights
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Total survey respondents:
234
Total # of respondents that
are live on Adaptive: 201
66% of respondent accelerated cycle times by
50% or more for planning, reporting, and
analytical processes
72% of respondents increased time spent on
analysis & collaboration by at least 30-50%
88% agree or strongly agree their role has
become
more strategic with Adaptive Insights
22. Best Practice Value Journey
Process People Model Data
• Reallocate finance
time from data prep
to reporting &
analytics
• Enhance
engagement &
accountability to
the plan
• Empower FP&A to
be a true business
partner
• 30-50% productivity
improvement
• Improved process
consistency & data
quality
• 50-70% acceleration
in FP&A cycles
leads to timely &
relevant plans
• Improved forecast
accuracy
• More granular &
intuitive visibility into
performance
• Early visibility into
risks & opportunities
• Scale & flexibility to
change with the
business
• Single source
increases accuracy
& trust
• Supporting data
from additional
sources provides
insight
• Operational drivers
enrich data & focus
on actionable items
Phase I
Phase II
Phase III+
23. Customer Journey Phases - Financial
Phase I Phase II Phase II+
• Annual budget
• Monthly forecasts
• Variance reporting
• Strategic what-ifs
• Long term plans
• Operational plans
• KPI dashboards
• Board & investor reporting
• Finance team
• Mgmt (consumers)
• Budget owners
• HR
• Execs
• External (Banks/Boards)
• Headcount
• Operating Expenses
• P&L
• Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
• Top-line
• Sales & workforce
• Detailed schedules, KPIs
• Highly formatted reports
• Workday Financial Management
• Workday HCM
• CRM
• Transactional systems
• Data warehouse
• Operational data sources
Reduce low value tasks
Single source of truth
Accountability
Self-service reporting
End-to-end planning
Course correction
Value
24. Went live in 7 weeks for
rapid time to value
Value Realized
Visibility into more
granular data
Ability to pivot quickly
when market
conditions change
More regular
aggregate data to
parent company
Phase 1: Sales and labor retail planning
Phase 2: Margin retail planning
Phase 3: OPEX, CAPEX, personnel (in progress)
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26. Customer Journey Phases - WFP
Phase I Phase II Phase II+
• Headcount & cost plans
• Resource & capacity
• Organizational design
• Compensation plans
• Retention plans
• M&A plans
• Talent requisition & pipeline
• Talent sourcing plans
• Skills capacity plans
• Learning programs
• Retirement plans
• Succession planning
• Human Resources
• Workforce planners
• Compensation
• Strategic planning team
• Recruiting & staffing
• Leadership
• Learning & development
• WFP template by Job Profile or
Position with current workers &
open job reqs
• Monitor plan to execution
• Workday HCM
• Increase efficiency & productivity
• Accelerated planning cycles
• Additional dimensions for talent
planning
• Assumptions for restructuring &
attrition
• Workday Financial Management
• Identifying risks & opportunities
earlier to allow for course
correction
• Additional dimensions for key
learning elements
• Skills needs modeling & forecasting
based on strategic initiatives
• Workday Prism Analytics
• Operational data
• Market data & statistics
• Aligned strategic priorities with
workforce plans and delivery
commitments
Value
27. Value Realized
Accelerated planning
cycle by up to 70%
Increased productivity
and planner efficiency
by 50%
Aligned strategic
priorities with workforce
plans and production
commitments
Allowed stakeholders
to course correct by
spotting risks and
opportunities earlier
Phase 1: Workforce supply planning of FTE
(<6 months)
Phase 2: Workforce workload planning for
engineering (~6 months)
Phase 3: Multi-year plan—operational and
strategic
Phase 4: Distributed planning cycle
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31. It Takes a Team
Customer Journey
Customer
Base
Account
Executive
Solution
Consultant
Value &
Solution
Design
Partners Professional
Services
Customer
Success
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