Financial advisory organization Yellow Hive works with more than 500 colleagues to achieve its goals: to structurally belong to the top 5 in the financial sector of the Netherlands and to spread its wings on the European market. With a dedicated team, the organization will continue on its course to grow further in 2024 and strengthen its position as a leading player. Milan Verzijlbergh, ICT Director at Yellow Hive, and Stefan van den Berg, Director Power of Attorney at Yinco (part of Yellow Hive), explain the challenges involved in setting up the company-wide IT infrastructure needed to facilitate this growth. And they discuss the importance of employee engagement and process optimization in this process.

Milan stresses the importance of efficiency within Yellow Hive: "We are faced with the challenge of handling a huge amount of administrative work with a limited number of employees. The shortage of staff makes this even more challenging. To keep the workload manageable for our employees, automation is inevitable. Especially given our growth ambitions." Stefan: "Although people often see automation as a threat, it can actually make work more enjoyable. When software takes over tasks, employees can focus on their strengths and what they really enjoy."

Business units You Sure and Yinco have been making proactive use of Blinqx software solutions for some time now: the possibilities and impossibilities of the solution are carefully examined and then, together with the people of Blinqx, we look at how things can be done even better.
Milan praises the transparency and supportive way of working of Blinqx: "Blinqx is a reliable partner who is ready on all fronts with good support and quick reactions. In large migration projects, they actively think along with us about the best approach, which helps us tremendously. We have a challenge and Blinqx has the tooling." Yellow Hive has recently been working on optimizing the prolongation process - this is an intensive process with many administrative operations.
Milan: "Thanks to Blinqx's software, we have improved the performance of the prolongation process and solved the administrative hiccups. We informed our team well about the new way of working and guided them during the transition."
Stefan emphasizes the importance of investing in employees and optimizing processes: "I myself take the time to observe what employees are up against, so that we can work in a targeted way to improve and increase the acceptance of the processes." "The cooperation between different departments within your company, especially between business and IT, is another factor that determines whether the software investment ultimately results in the desired savings or growth. Together we look at existing processes: what works well, what needs to be improved - what can we automate and optimize and how do we ensure the best data quality in the process. That sometimes requires a different mindset, but ultimately delivers much more."