Case Study: UNIDO accelerates digital transformation and innovation with AQai

UN Agency leverages AQ for digital transformation and Innovation

UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, wanted to accelerate digital transformation across its finance function, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and identify leadership development opportunities. The organization also needed to better onboard 50–70 new graduates each year and prepare its teams for a more adaptable, innovation-oriented way of working. AQai supported the initiative through AQ assessments, workshops, and team coaching.

AQai helped UNIDO build a culture of unlearning, experimentation, and wider-horizon thinking, while leading an innovation and adaptability track at a Vienna-based UN finance conference. Within six months, the team had increased experimentation and innovation, deployed RPA finance bots to reduce repetitive work, and helped establish an innovation hub with a $20m funding mission for UN SDG initiatives. AQai’s program also contributed to a rapid COVID-19 response, with processes reimagined within days to enable work from home, and it delivered 20% resource time saved.

UNIDO

Jason Slater

Chief of Finance