In this moment, excerpted from the full-length interview with Bob Evans, Beth Allen, Vice President, Strategic Finance and Analytics, VCU Health, explains how Workday technologies have aided the company in optimizing its systems in order to be the prepared for the future.
Highlights
00:09 — Allen notes that VCU Health is on a journey to optimize the systems across the entire organization; the company is almost two years into this journey. As VCU Health considered where it wanted to go with its ERP system, the company had to consider what direction it wanted to go in the future.
00:36 — Before starting the journey of optimizing, VCU Health had 20 disparate systems. This proved to be challenging because, if one system went down, it required various resources to address the problem. Allen notes, “We never want to operate in a crisis mode where we don’t need to.”
01:07 — This is where the power of Workday comes into play. “When we looked at Workday, we really appreciated it being a single system that worked together,” reports Allen.
01:44 — Allen explains that since Workday is built in the cloud, VCU Health is able to leverage its technology that’s already set in an environment that VCU Health utilizes today. “We really are looking to really move the organization forward not only with the technology but with our culture and adopting change and really helping to be agile so that we can be better resources of our healthcare system.”
