CUSTOMER STORY
Wärtsilä Uses Real-Time, On-Demand People Analytics for Whole Business Transformation and Impact
Wärtsilä partnered with Visier to revamp its People Analytics capabilities by switching from gathering time-consuming data manually to a real-time, strategic business relationship. The aim was to provide analytics for the business, and not to do analytics just for HR. Now, their HR leaders and business managers get on-demand access to workforce intelligence that improves their decision quality and drives transformation across markets.
Early feedback on the tool showed a leadership team excited to use Visier to improve transparency and get actionable insights. This supported their mission to support sustainable societies through technology and people. The Visier platform also helps them track competencies, improve compliance, and measure leadership development impact.
INDUSTRY
Technology
HEADQUARTERS
Helsinki, Finland
EMPLOYEES
18,000
VISIER PEOPLE® SOLUTIONS:
- Essentials
- Talent Acquisition
- Learning
- Vee
- Extend
Wärtsilä is a global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. We emphasise innovation in sustainable technology and services to help our customers continuously improve their environmental and economic performance.
With Visier’s people analytics solutions, Wärtsilä has:
Moved HR from a data lag concern to real-time business impact and decision support
Delivered better insights to business leaders to support organizational change
Improved how they measure manager effectiveness
THE CHALLENGE
Giving business leaders real-time, transparent workforce insights
Wärtsilä's HR team struggled with fragmented workforce data, causing delays and reduced impact during crucial business meetings. Senior leaders wasted momentum searching for data and this further limited HR’s ability to act as a strategic partner.
On this, Mattijs Mol, VP HR Technology, Strategy & Analytics, notes: “In the past, when workforce topics were discussed in our business, HR always had to go back to the drawing board, back to the basement, to figure out where the data sets. Now we can actually use momentum during business management and leadership meetings to drive decisions.
"I think it's the first time that we got positive feedback upfront without this expert system explicitly asking for it. What the business really appreciates about this platform and the solution they envisioned is its real-time, on-demand nature. They finally got the insights, at the moment they need it, that lead to higher decision-quality."
Mattijs Mol
Head of HR Strategy Analytics
THE SOLUTION
Using robust analytic insights to improve the quality of their decisions
Visier was positioned not just as an HR platform but as a strategic business intelligence tool. Upon implementation, the team received on-demand, transparent insights, allowing HR to support business discussions immediately and proactively.
This partnership allowed Wärtsilä's HR analytics team to translate data into value and participate more closely with the business, supporting decision-making in real time.
THE OUTCOME
Driving adoption and organizational strategy with Visier
Wärtsilä received immediate positive feedback from business leaders who received increased visibility into the workforce trends that impacted the business. One senior leader was "flabbergasted by the amount of people he had to close to retirement, the different age generations he had in his organization, and actually the limited number of female leaders". These were all data points that were previously not on his mind.
This newfound transparency triggered concrete actions and changes in team development and succession planning. As Mattijs Mol, Head of HR Strategy Analytics, explained, "This feature helped him to do things differently in his organization and how he was leading his organization."
"Our industry is changing. So there's a lot of push to acquire new competencies and skills in order for us to serve our customers in the best possible manner. With these, you actually want to understand the progress and impact of how your company, as well as how your workforce is moving in a certain direction. Do we have the right competencies in place in-house at a certain moment in time? Are we making progress in the right direction? With Visier, we get easy access to this kind of information.”
Mattijs Mol Head of HR Strategy Analytics
The Visier platform also allowed Wärtsilä’s HR team to have easy access to training compliance data and measure the ROI of leadership development programs. This supports the organization's transformation priorities in a globally dispersed workforce that requires mandatory training and competency tracking.
Looking ahead, Wärtsilä is excited about broadening the platform’s use by integrating additional data sources such as employee engagement, total cost of labor, and other external workforce data to increase the strategic value of HR’s insights.
On this, Mattijs emphasized their vision of "data democratization" to ensure leaders can understand and incorporate data into their decision-making naturally.
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Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. Our award-winning, agentic AI technology surfaces the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 65,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino’s Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.
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