Over the past years, CL Grupo Industrial has been experiencing what Talent Corporate Manager Laura Sanchez calls “exponential growth, to the point where we now have around 3,000 employees across our 6 divisions.”
This has brought the business both opportunities and challenges, not least the need to exploit the competitive advantage offered by such growth through offering high-quality professional opportunities to new and existing colleagues across the business.
Taming the challenges of exponential growth.
“We didn’t have the right system—there was no management tool that would help us go on the growth journey with our colleagues, to help them develop with the business and grasp the opportunities of growth,” Sanchez says. “At the process level, too, our systems were poorly standardized, they weren’t interconnected, and our data was in different places, making it very hard to access for decision-making.”
After some research, CL Grupo Industrial chose Workday as the solution to these challenges. “We saw that it was founded on a basic preconfiguration of processes, all based on best market practices—and this fitted us like a glove,” Sanchez says. “Now, we understand that Workday is the catalyst that will allow us to make all the cultural changes we need, creating a company that’s focused on people by providing all the data needed for good team management.”
Workday gives insight into what people’s concerns really are, what we need to do to retain their loyalty, and how we can best grow together with our people.
Talent Corporate Manager
Freeing HR to focus on what really matters.
Sanchez is very clear about the aspects of Workday that bring the most value to CL Grupo Industrial. “I like its power at the data-analytics level, and I like the role of AI embedded in the tool to personalize the user experience and add to its usability,” Sanchez says.
These properties enable Workday to convert the company’s HR function into what Sanchez calls “an engine of that sustainable, exponential growth we’re experiencing.”
“Workday does this by connecting all the processes needed to give 360-degree visibility of the employee lifecycle and so give insight into what people’s concerns really are, what we need to do to retain their loyalty, and how we can best grow together with our people,” Sanchez says.
That’s not all. “It is also a very powerful way of helping our managers get the best out of their teams, as well as exponentially decreasing all those administrative tasks and duties that can so often clog up the HR department,” Sanchez continues.
Delivering a powerful market advantage.
Sanchez’s colleague, Chief Information Officer Borja López, , is equally positive about the value of Workday to the business. “A major advantage is that all our data can be combined on one platform,” López says. “This integration enhances our decision-making, giving us a significant edge in the market.”
López goes further. “Another key benefit is our ability to merge Workday data with other company systems, allowing us to identify patterns and improve organizational efficiency across the business.”
López is also quick to highlight the flexibility Workday brings. “A high percentage of our people are technicians who work in factories and don’t have access to a PC,” López says. “That’s where the app comes in, enabling us to easily extend the use of Workday into the plant environment.”
With Workday, all data can be integrated on the same platform, giving our decision-making abilities a powerful boost.
Chief Information Officer