Implementation Advisory
You’re making decisions that will shape how Workday runs for years.
We work alongside your team and implementation partner to examine important design decisions, understand what they will mean in practice, and identify where a choice deserves more scrutiny before it is difficult to unwind.
When to consider
Implementation Advisory is most useful when the decisions still have room to move.
Key implementation decisions are still being made.
You want an independent perspective while there is still time to question, refine, or change the design.
You want another perspective on important design decisions.
You want to understand the tradeoffs and downstream effects before the design is finalized.
You want your business needs represented more clearly in design decisions.
You want implementation choices evaluated against how your organization actually needs to operate.
You are thinking beyond go-live.
You want your team prepared to understand, operate, and own more of the system after the implementation partner steps back.
Why it matters
The project ends. You have to live with the design.
A design choice can solve the immediate requirement and still create problems elsewhere. The important question is not only whether the configuration works, but how it will hold up across processes, reporting, integrations, and day-to-day ownership.
We help your team interrogate important design choices before they are finalized, with attention to the tradeoffs, downstream effects, and ownership implications that can receive less attention in the pace of an implementation.
Client-side and implementation experience
Sequoia brings experience from both client-side Workday ownership and implementation delivery. That perspective matters when your team is being asked to make consequential choices while also learning which Workday terminology, system rules, and design decisions will matter most after go-live.
The timeline changes the pressure
A longer implementation gives you more room to work through decisions. A compressed timeline forces more of them into a shorter window. Either way, the design still has to hold up after go-live.
How we help
How we help you examine the decisions before they become the design
Connecting Workday terminology to operating reality
We connect Workday terminology and design concepts to the processes, responsibilities, and downstream effects they create so your team can focus on the choice itself, not the language around it.
Looking beyond whether the design works
We examine what sits around the proposed design: the processes it touches, the dependencies it creates, and the administration it leaves behind after go-live.
Keeping the design grounded in how you operate
We keep implementation decisions tied to the processes, responsibilities, and operating realities they are meant to support.
Making the tradeoffs explicit
We help distinguish between choices that are simply different and choices that create meaningful downstream consequences for how Workday is operated and maintained.
Questioning the assumptions behind the design
We work with your team and implementation partner to examine the assumptions behind a proposed design, identify what may need more consideration, and strengthen the reasoning before the decision is finalized.
How we work
We work with your implementation partner. Not around them.
We do not replace your implementation partner or create a parallel implementation track. We join the conversation where another perspective is useful and work collaboratively through the decisions that deserve more scrutiny.
Knowledge sharing is part of the work. Your team should leave the implementation understanding not only what was decided, but why, what tradeoffs were considered, and what those choices will require after go-live.
The goal is not just a finished implementation. It is a team prepared to own what comes next.
What this helps you do
Make stronger implementation decisions
Implementation Advisory creates space to examine a choice from another angle before your team has to live with what it becomes.
Have a Workday implementation decision you want us to examine?
A 30-minute conversation is a good place to start.