The municipality of Hellendoorn is a municipality in the province of Overijssel and is located on the border of Salland and Twente, near Almelo. On 1 January 2019, the municipality had 35.808 inhabitants. Like other municipalities in the Netherlands, this municipality has acquired an increasingly extensive package of responsibilities in recent years, such as the decentralisations of the central government to the municipalities of the Wmo and Youth Act, which involve substantial cash flows.
The municipality also has to deal with increasingly higher expectations of citizens, politicians and social partners. This means that this municipality had to start looking at their organization in new, innovative ways. Data plays an important role in this.