Ymere – Cost-effective through data-driven working
Ymere is driven by its mission to provide more people with modest incomes a good home in the Amsterdam metropolitan region and aims to become an efficient and results-oriented organization.
Chester Bal - Director of Finance & Reporting, Ymere
"The data-driven approach quickly provided many new insights. Due to broad representation from the organization, there was immediate support for the proposed solutions."
Client request
Assist us in conducting a deep dive and analyses on the theme of 'hiring and consultancy costs,' resulting in a backlog of improvement ideas to achieve cost savings. Secure the data-driven approach so that we can subsequently do this ourselves.
Approach
With a multidisciplinary team consisting of a business controller, business analyst, and HR, we utilized the scrum methodology to perform the following activities:
Developed a hypothesis tree to clarify what is being investigated for everyone.
Conducted data analysis of the current situation and held interviews with line management.
Collaboratively translated studies into analysis presentations.
Conducted a deep-dive workshop with line managers to generate improvement ideas.
Prepared an implementation plan for improvement ideas.
Provided knowledge sessions on the data-driven working methodology.
Results
Empowered employees to work in a data-driven manner and conduct problem analyses.
Identified 10 improvement ideas for reducing external hiring.
Created awareness and support from the executive team and line managers for reducing external hiring (resulting in quicker decisions for internal solutions rather than external hiring).
Identified potential savings between €500,000 and €1,500,000.
