Management System Helped YIT Harmonize Its Practices
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Management System Helped YIT Harmonize its Practices Challenge Benefits . Merger of two large construction . YIT’s harmonized businesses follow companies common best-practices and . Diverse businesses and procedures checkpoints . How to support staff in their daily . Management system brings together work process descriptions of YIT’s core and support functions, as well as internal guideline documents YIT and Lemminkäisen Merger YIT and Lemminkäinen completed their merger early 2018. The combination created a financially strong company with urban YIT is the largest Finnish, and a development as the engine for growth and significant Northern European profitability. The merger of the two construction company headquartered in companies brought along some challenges, Helsinki. It operates in 11 countries. and the company wanted to avoid operational silos as well as support its Turnover: 3,689 bn EUR personnel in their daily activities. A common Employees: 10,000+ management system was developed, where Established: 1910 the best-practices of both companies were combined. www.yitgroup.com “The best thing that YIT and QPR co- operation has generated is that together we have been able to innovate how the management system QPR Helped YIT Create GRIP can best lead operations from the user point-of-view. The new YIT Group selected QPR Software to We have managed to create new twist develop the GRIP Management System in to a traditional management system co-operation with it. QPR EnterpriseArchitect through our joint efforts.” software was used to model the processes and interfaces in the management system. Hanne Perälä, YIT GRIP GRIP has been implemented with QPR Cloud Project’s Owner Service and imbedded in YIT’s SharePoint. Management System Advantages ”Customer oriented approach is very With the help of a common management important to YIT. The better we work system YIT Group management have been together, the better we are able to serve able to lead operations more efficiently. our customers. GRIP Management System Personnel at worksites and support functions helps us deliver our customer service know what tasks to do and in which order. promise,” Johanna Arola says and Instructions, applications and document continues: ”GRIP describes our corporate templates related to each task will easily be culture very well: we want to continuously found even in worker’s own language in find and develop new fluent and solution- 2020, when GRIP Management System is oriented ways of working.” established in all 11 countries where YIT operates. “GRIP Management System is Benefits for YIT continuously developed according to the feedback from users.” The development of GRIP plays a central role in YIT’s productivity program seeking significant savings. The productivity has improved, as the long experience of both Johanna Arola, companies has been refined to common Development Manager, operating models. Infrastructure Projects at YIT These models are led and developed with the help of GRIP. Agile Execution by Joint Suppliers A special development group continuously “The co-operation between QPR and develops GRIP Management System. In other suppliers has functioned very collaboration with QPR, some joint well. The teams work hard to find the suppliers take part in the developing work. best solutions for YIT.Tiina Every Talja, sprint The development is led according to SAFe resultsYIT in GRIPvalue kehitysprojektin creating features and framework in two-week sprints and series according to givenprojektipäällikkö time-table.” of five sprints. Feedback and requests from users are collected regularly. Tiina Talja, At times the group arranges special user- developer days to juggle ideas based on Project Manager, which the implementation of new GRIP YIT GRIP Project features is planned and scheduled. QPR Software Plc QPR Software Plc (Nasdaq Helsinki) provides process mining, performance management and enterprise architecture solutions for Read more at digital transformation, strategy execution and business process improvement in over 50 countries. QPR software allows customers to www.qpr.com gain valuable insights for informed decisions that make a difference. Dare to improve. .