A Pivotal Moment for Higher Education & Technology | Cloud Wars Live

A Pivotal Moment for Higher Education & Technology | Cloud Wars Live

The leadership team at Washington State University had just completed a major project—moving from a 40-year-old mainframe accounting and HR system to the cloud—when the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything yet again. WSU's Chief Financial Officer and Vice
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The Big Themes:


The lessons of the pandemic response - Stacy says she and her
colleagues discovered that WSU as an institution could be much
more nimble and fast-moving than they might have thought before

Change management when moving to the cloud - Workday's
systems revolutionized the employee experience at WSU, which
involved some challenges but mostly major benefits

Evolution in the CFO role and in higher ed in general - a
need for flexibility and the breaking down of silos are key
themes prompting change in both areas



The Big Quote: "Everything's going to involve money. It's all
going to involve technology, high-level decisions about impacts,
the need for data analysis and all of that... I think it's a
welcomed change that those silos will be broken down, not just
for the CFO, but for other leaders at the campuses."


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