Use Cases / Project Approval
Systematically evaluate major organization projects
Give project management teams an easy way to review, approve, and prioritize proposals for new initiatives.
Challenge
Large city and state agencies, such as hospital networks, DMVs, and educational systems, must enable employees to propose major initiatives and project management teams to assess their value to the organization.
Requirements
- Intuitive digital project request form with customizable fields
- Automated routing of project requests through appropriate chain of command for evaluation and approval
- Automatic prioritization and scheduling of approved projects
- Out-of-the-box integration with internal IT infrastructure
Solution
- Online form can be configured to reflect each project proposal’s main objectives, risks, rewards, and alignment with larger agency priorities
- Enable anyone in the organization to submit project proposals through the system
- Proposals are automatically routed and properly sequenced through the project management hierarchy for approval
- Project evaluators provide and request feedback through the SimpliGov platform
- Workflow automation automatically schedules initiatives in order of importance to the agency based on resources, goals, anticipated ROI, and other factors
Results
- Projects align with broader agency objectives
- Efficient use of agency resources
- Well-organized project management function
- Faster project approval and time-to-value