The current state of municipalities
Municipalities are under increasing pressure to improve their efficiency and manage the opportunities, demands – and threats – brought about by the rapid pace of digitalisation.
The current decision-making model is typically very decentralised across different sectors and often sectors are not aware of what other sectors are doing. This easily leads to duplication of solutions. Businesses may also face challenges in identifying or taking into account legal requirements for information management and security in their procurement, which may make it impossible to adapt the purchased system or software to the municipality’s environment when implementing software in different business areas.
Cooperation with Tiera
Tiera Oy is a company owned by municipal organisations and welfare regions, whose basic purpose is to generate savings for its owners.
Tiera has strong expertise in decision-making and project work with municipalities. Proha and Tiera Oy have worked together to define the Intelli S concept for municipalities’ portfolio management needs. The starting point for the Intelli S solution implemented on the Camako solution platform has been to create a solution that is sufficient to provide a platform for municipal portfolio management to implement consistent practices and transparency. At the same time, care has been taken to ensure that the solution is not initially too large, in order to make implementation as easy as possible.
Tiera offers expert assistance in building a digitalisation snapshot, as well as in defining and implementing a digitalisation management approach.
Camako Intelli S as a portfolio management solution for municipalities
Proha Oy has a strong tradition in project management, project portfolio management and project cost management. The new Camako Intelli S condenses this expertise into a portfolio management package that allows municipalities to create the required number of different types of portfolios and portfolio contents to meet their needs.
The Ideas Portfolio is for managing development ideas. It is the place where all development ideas from different sources can be collected and scored according to consistent criteria, thus providing clear priorities of development ideas for budget proposals and decision making.
The project portfolio provides visibility of all ongoing projects, ensuring timely and right-sized resourcing of projects and the ability to respond to changes in projects or organisational needs as priorities change.
Project phases and their decision points ensure high quality and agile decision making in project management.
With different project types and project templates, Intelli S makes it possible to define project phases and decision points for each project type, as well as approval levels for decision points.
With an up-to-date snapshot, Intelli S brings visibility to your project and idea portfolio, step by step. The visualisation of up-to-date information, as well as easy-to-use reporting designed for municipal decision-making, ensures that projects are progressing as planned and potential challenges are identified at an early stage.
Continuous development and piloting
After a basic deployment, Intelli S offers the possibility to easily extend portfolio management to different types of projects, such as events, trade fairs or infrastructure construction. On the other hand, the project portfolio functionalities can also be extended as needed, e.g. by extending to hourly accounting and human resource management or by extending the financial management functionality in Intelli S by integrating it with the municipal financial management.
The system can be piloted in phases, and after the initial deployment, Intelli S will provide real-time information on project design accuracy, costs and schedules. Real-time information supports transparency and efficient decision-making, and ensures successful optimisation of resources.
Summary
Intelli S is a flexible, versatile and powerful tool for decision support and project management. Based on the Camako platform, it brings transparency to development ideas and projects across industry boundaries, enabling efficient idea and project portfolio management.
Intelli S is the cornerstone of development idea and project management, streamlining development decision-making, providing measurable information on project design capability in terms of schedule and cost, ensuring strategic thematic priorities are addressed, and helping to assess impact.
To learn more about our Intelli S solution or to see how it can improve your municipality’s project portfolio management, visit Camako (link opens in new window).
We will hold a free webinar on Tuesday 29.10.2024 at 10:00: Camako Intelli S and Tiera – Deploy Proha’s new agile municipal project management solution with Tiera!
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