For more than 20 years, people in Australia have placed their trust in Beyond Blue for free mental health information, support, and hope. As the impacts of challenges like natural disasters, financial hardship and rising loneliness accumulate, it’s increasingly important for anyone in need to have access to Beyond Blue’s free, 24/7 mental health support. But Beyond Blue’s Support Service relies on corporate and community donations, and the cost-of-living crisis that is impacting so many has made fundraising harder.
Chief Operations Officer Wes Cordingley needed a scenario planning tool that would allow Beyond Blue to understand how best to deploy its resources to the community areas most in need. Cordingley chose Workday Adaptive Planning for its powerful scenario planning capabilities, intuitive user experience, and embedded AI and machine learning.
Understanding where help can be most effective.
Beyond Blue is all about early intervention—getting the right resources to communities where they are needed most. “To do that, accurate data is absolutely critical,” explains Cordingley. “It helps build trust within the community and the organization.”
Using Workday Adaptive Planning, Beyond Blue’s finance team are not only completing month-end reporting in record time but are also bringing the business unprecedented visibility—from both an actual and a forecast perspective.
“At any point in time, we now see exactly where the numbers are landing and examine different future scenarios,” Cordingley says. “We can see where we need to make adjustments in response to likely changes in mental health support needs.”
We can now help people at a rapid pace because we have full visibility into our numbers.
Chief Operations Officer