Groundswell HCM Accelerator

A proven, true-to-core delivery approach for federal human capital transformation on Workday — from Phase 0 roadmap to secure deployment and sustained adoption.

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The challenge

Federal HCM programs keep failing the same four ways.

Legacy HCM systems across federal agencies drive inefficiency, high maintenance costs, and security risk — and stand in the way of recruiting, retaining, and fielding a mission-ready workforce. The implementations meant to fix them stumble on recurring, predictable problems.

Costly overcustomization

Bending the platform to replicate legacy habits drives up cost and makes every future change harder.

• Custom code where configuration would do
• Compounding maintenance burden

Legacy integration challenges

Complex legacy processes and systems resist connection to modern platforms.

• Decades of accumulated process debt
• Brittle, manual tie-points

Extended timelines

Implementations stretch for years while agencies keep paying for the systems they meant to retire.

• Scope churn and rework
• Value deferred, risk extended

Poor user adoption

Systems launch, but the workforce never fully lands — and the business case never materializes.

• Change management as an afterthought
• Training that misses the mission

Introducing the Groundswell HCM Accelerator

True to core. Automated. Built to be adopted.

The HCM Accelerator is Groundswell's delivery approach for Workday HCM transformation — proven at the Defense Intelligence Agency and built for the security, compliance, and complexity of federal and intelligence community missions.

Analysis & Roadmap

Lay the groundwork before you build.

Transformation starts with a structured Phase 0 that de-risks everything that follows: a working Workday sandbox for hands-on demonstrations, process mapping and architecture review against your requirements and security constraints, and a tailored modernization roadmap.
  • Federal sandbox environment for operational demos and functional discussions

True to Core

Configure the platform. Don't fight it.

Our "true to core" approach maximizes Workday's out-of-the-box capability — configuration over customization — validated through a comprehensive fit-gap analysis.
  • Comprehensive fit-gap analysis against agency requirements
  • Standardized processes built on Workday best practices
  • Faster implementation, simpler maintenance, stronger compliance

RPA Synergy

Automate the legacy drag in parallel.

While Workday is configured, a parallel Robotic Process Automation track streamlines the inefficient, manual legacy processes that would otherwise carry over — a dual-track strategy that reduces risk and delivers efficiency before go-live.
  • Identify, optimize, and automate manual legacy processes
  • Strategic RPA integration for legacy efficiency
  • Risk reduction ahead of migration

Secure Delivery

Deploy at mission scale, securely.

Groundswell securely migrates and transforms legacy data into Workday while meeting stringent federal security and privacy standards, with delivery experience spanning defense, intelligence community, and civilian agencies.
  • Secure legacy data migration and transformation
  • Adherence to stringent security and compliance standards
  • Proven in the most demanding federal environments

Adopt & Optimize

Make adoption the measure of success.

Change management and automation start early, not after go-live. We build leadership alignment and stakeholder engagement across the agency, train the workforce, and drive continuous improvement through structured feedback loops.
  • Change management and stakeholder engagement from day one
  • Leadership buy-in and cross-agency alignment
  • Continuous improvement through feedback loops and Workday releases

The BENEFITS

Transforming federal human capital management

The HCM Accelerator pairs Groundswell’s proven federal delivery approach with the Workday HCM Suite — a single source of HR and payroll data with built-in auditing, self-service, and skills-based insights — to deliver measurable workforce outcomes.

01

Employee experience

Intuitive, mobile-first self-service replaces paper and manual processing, Workday customers report an 81% decrease in time to onboard new employees and 90% faster benefit changes.*

02

Mission-ready talent

Skills-based insights driven by machine learning and real-time workforce planning help agencies attract, develop, and retain talent, with an 83% decrease in recruit-to-hire time reported by Workday customers.*

03

Operational efficiency

A single, always-audited source of HR and pay data cuts transactional drag, Workday customers report a 50% decrease in time to run payroll and 80% reduction in paper usage.*

*Results reported by Workday across its customers.

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