Since January 2022, Jolien Driesen has been managing the integration into SPIE ofWorksphere, a Dutch specialist in smart and sustainable building services. She and her team are hard at work to help the new employees feel like a part of the SPIE community.
Jolien has worked at SPIE for nine years, starting her career in HR before moving into mergers and acquisitions. Now the integration manager, her responsibility is to oversee the smooth and full integration of Worksphere into SPIE Nederland by the end of 2023. The integration programme, Stronger Together, is made up of twenty workstreams.
“The programme’s name is based on our belief that we are learning from each other and taking the best of both worlds to create added value for our customers,” says Jolien. “And to help new staff feel at home, we have organised events like an online talk show and roadshows.”
the Worksphere acquisition, SPIE has become the largest multi-technical service provider in the Netherlands. “Now we have a leading role in not only digitisationbut also the sustainability of buildings, which is closely in line with the company’s strategy and the market,”she says. The benefits are already visible: “We are able to offer our customers more than before. Cross selling with different markets and divisions within SPIE Nederland had led to many business opportunities already,” explains Jolien.
“ we are learning from each other and taking the best of both worlds to create added value for our customers.”
Building a robust offering together
"As part of the integration team, I’m involved in several workstreams where we are seeing good results. The merger’s benefits include accelerating process digitisation and providing customers with new, data-driven services. It also enables us to accelerate our own green ambitions. We’ve already achieved a lot from joining forces, but there is still much more to come."