Today, Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi are all part of a unique strategic alliance partnership. However, in 2012, Nissan was running multiple non-cloud-based HR systems across its multiple regions without a way to link them. For example, Nissan ran SuccessFactors and Oracle's PeopleSoft in North America, but SAP HR packages in Europe and outdated software in Japan. Through pressure from Nissan's board to streamline the HR systems, Alfonso Diez David, Alliance General Manager of Global Digital Human Resources at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, was tasked with integrating and unifying all of Nissan's HR systems to achieve global consistency. The transition was not without its challenges, but after successfully piloting the Workday, Inc., platform in Hong Kong and South Africa, Nissan rolled it out to North America and Japan in 2016. By 2017, both the French carmaker Renault (with nearly 125,000 employees in 128 countries) and Nissan (with nearly 140,000 employees in more than 160 countries) had a global cloud-based HR software system. Diez David explains that the rationale behind the major investment in time and money to move to a single global HR system was to allow Nissan to compare apples to apples when it came to employees and HR. Another major driver was the desire to leverage HR analytics to manage their talent globally. The hope was to save time for HR staff by offloading common administrative HR tasks and allowing them time to focus on high-value data analytics to help Nissan become more efficient and profitable. Diez David recommends several things when rolling out a major HRIS project such as this one including + 4 # * Being user centric, Recruiting system champions to answer questions and help with trainings locally, Focusing on data quality up front to avoid problems later on, and Investing in the management of data privacy concerns. Of course, the changes made with Nissan's HR system and their global HRIS rollout are not the only factors influencing Nissan's successful turnaround. However, this case remains a valuable reminder of how important data management and HRIS are as a foundation to strong organizations

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