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How a Healthcare Technology Company Cut QBR Prep Time by Over 60% With Visier
A fast-growing healthcare technology company needed faster, more strategic people insight to keep pace with its expansion. Quarterly Business Reviews took six to eight weeks to pull together, delaying access to critical workforce data. Choosing speed and value over building in-house, the company adopted Visier — and within months, QBR turnaround dropped to two to three weeks.
>60%
QBR creation time cut
Our Summary:
Industry
Healthcare Technology
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California
Company size
1,100
Visier solutions used
Workforce Insights
The challenge:
Slow, manual reporting — QBRs that took six to eight weeks — delayed visibility into critical workforce trends and made strategic questions hard to answer.
Why Visier Workforce AI:
A cost-benefit analysis showed Visier would get insight to stakeholders far faster than building a solution in-house.
Key outcomes:
The company cut QBR prep by over 60%, started answering leadership questions live in meetings, and turned people analytics into a strategic business driver.
With Visier, this healthcare technology company has:
Cut quarterly business review creation time by over 60%
Enabled “live” answers to critical leadership questions in meetings
Proved ROI by delivering strategic business insights
THE CHALLENGE
A need for speed — and strategy
When a new leader stepped in to head the people analytics function, one issue surfaced immediately: the organization needed faster, more strategic workforce insight. “I quickly realized there was a huge gap in getting metrics into the hands of our stakeholders,” the Head of People Analytics shared.
Preparing QBRs manually took six to eight weeks and surfaced only surface-level data, delaying visibility into critical trends. Reporting was largely operational, making it hard to answer strategic questions quickly, benchmark performance, or dig into areas like departmental diversity or talent-pipeline health.
Visier has supercharged our ability to put metrics in the hands of stakeholders. There have been countless times where I've been in a meeting live on the call where a leader asks a question about a certain metric or has a hypothesis, and I was able to answer it live by creating a graph on the fly.
— Head of People Analytics
THE SOLUTION
Ease of use and instant insight that “blew everyone's minds”
After evaluating the market, the company selected Visier. A cost-benefit analysis made the case clear — Visier would let the analytics team deliver insight to stakeholders significantly faster than an in-house build. “The speed at which we would be able to present metrics once we went live with a tool like Visier… was much clearer,” the people analytics leader noted. The intuitive interface let the team answer complex questions on the fly.
The immediate ROI came from out-of-the-box capabilities (pre-built strategic dashboards, drill-downs, and integrated benchmarks), comprehensive reporting that cut QBR prep from weeks to days, and strong implementation and CSM support.
Visier transformed how we analyze workforce data. Instead of waiting weeks for reports, we now have instant insights that allow leadership to make proactive, cost-effective decisions.
— Head of People Analytics
THE OUTCOME
Fast, accurate insight transformed decision-making
Within just seven months of implementing Visier, the company moved its people analytics function from basic reporting to a strategic business driver. QBR prep time fell by over 60%, delivering immediate proof of ROI. Critical workforce questions got answered far faster, with live analysis enabling quick decisions. And basic updates became strategic reviews — now drawing on about ten metrics and benchmarks to drive deeper, more informed conversations with leadership.
It's been a massive shift in what we bring to leadership. The questions they ask are now answered quickly and confidently — because of Visier.
— Head of People Analytics
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