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Why Most HCM Implementations Fail to Deliver ROI: The Missing People Framework
Every major HRM rollout – Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle Fusion, Employment Hero or others ultimately lives or dies by one thing: the strength of its people framework. Without a clear job architecture, clean data and defined career pathways, even the best HCM implementations will underperform.
This isn’t just theory. According to Deloitte, only 30% of HR technology implementations deliver their expected ROI. Gartner highlights that over 40% of HR leaders cite poor data quality and inconsistent structures as the single biggest barrier to unlocking value from HCM systems.
The lesson? Technology is rarely the root cause. The missing link is almost always the people framework– the job architecture, reporting line and governance that underpins the system.
At one of my former employers, Workday was rolled out at speed without first investing in a job architecture or people data clean-up.
The impact was immediate and painful:
- Managers built and trusted their own Excel trackers because Workday reports conflicted with reality.
- Offers and approvals stalled when routing broke down – line managers, Finance and HRBPs weren’t aligned due to misassigned positions and broken reporting lines.
- Workforce planning sat outside the system. When leadership asked for headcount analysis, Workday’s numbers didn’t match the business’s spreadsheets. Reconciling the two wasted weeks of effort at a time when decisions needed to be made in hours.
- Workday capability usage was
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