In the
spring of 2020, Denmark's largest unemployment fund, Akademikernes A-kasse,
started the implementation of a larger portfolio of strategic projects and sub-strategies.
The management realized that there was a great need to establish project
governance and a new project culture throughout the organization, to ensure
that their projects create value for partners, members, and employees. As a
result, a portfolio manager was hired and tasked with setting up a PMO function
to ensure an elevated level of strategic project and portfolio governance, in
collaboration with the HR and IT department. The organization had not
previously worked in project models or with project tools of any kind. After a
careful evaluation and assessment of several different suppliers of project
management tools, they finally chose Antura Projects.
–We
looked around for a user-friendly and comprehensive project management tool
with great flexibility and good possibilities for financial follow-up. Antura
turned out to offer just that and more, which means that we will also be able
to grow with the tool and expand with more functionality as we become more
accustomed and better at working in the project model, said Malin Marker Persson, Development
and Digitization director at Akademikerne's A-kasse.
Antura
Projects was implemented, configured and the employees were trained in working
with the tool. This was done so they could quickly get started and to ensure
that they received the right support that was requested in order to streamline
the organization's project and portfolio management. Antura Projects has now
enabled easy access to their project models and guides.
In autumn of
2021, they conducted project management training for project managers,
development partners and steering group members in collaboration with the
Technological Institute. In early 2022, Antura Projects was integrated with the
organization's financial tool, Navision, to ensure quick access to financial
data in Antura Projects. Reports from Antura Projects are now used to support
their portfolio management, where management and managers easily get an overall
view of ongoing projects and sub-strategies, based on project progress,
consumption, risk analysis and status reporting from the project managers.
Implementing
a new project culture and a new project management tool is always a journey of
change and it´s time-consuming. A successful start does not mean that the
process is over, therefore Akademikernes A-kasse and Antura will continue to
work actively with the goal of further facilitating the project and portfolio
management. The next goal is to further streamline the organization's capacity for
project governance, and Antura Project will be a large part of this.
–We warmly welcome Akademikernes A-kasse as a
new customer to Antura! We are happy that an important Danish organization like
Akademikernes A-kasse has given Antura their trust and we look forward to
supporting their important work with project and portfolio management, said Anders Haglund, Sales Manager Denmark at Antura.