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As we begin the new decade, we see constant change happening within information management in project business. Renewing Information Services strategy to tackle the digital challenges of customers is done in two ways; developing and expanding our existing core...

Matias Träskbäck has extensive experience from a wide range of communities and teams, whether those are work-related or sports- based. The world of sports has also taught Matias a lot about leadership. Now, he is coaching Proactor team for achieving goals and evolving...

Spring 2020 has taught us all to work remotely, whether we’ve done it before or not. In the future, at least partial remote work is likely to become a new normal. Check these tips to take care of your home office ergonomics and efficiency, both now and in the future....

“If you want to go fast – go alone, if you want to go far – go together”                                                                                                    * African proverb Prohoc Oy has over 20 years of experience providing project partnership...

In the first part of this article series, we discussed about fallacies and principal - agent relationships and how Capital Investments project proposals often overestimate benefits and underestimated costs. You can read the first part by clicking this link. This time...

According to PwC’s white paper* it is more an exception than a rule that capital investment projects are delivered within the budget and deadline. According to the white paper only 5,4 % met “best in class” predictability in terms of schedule and cost. This statement...

Significant proportion of Prohoc’s employees work on project sites around the world. The experts are taken care of mostly by a powerful team of three women. The team consists of Senior Project Coordinator Sesilia Alhainen, Administrative Coordinator Päivi...

Jani Muotio is an Automation Engineer and Prohoc professional who wants to use his programming skills to make clients achieve their goals. He is eager to learn something new every day. Programming has always been fun for Jani. Nevertheless, his childhood dream jobs...

Jarmo Tuohimaa has been interested in electrical engineering since childhood. Nowadays, he has a vast experience of different working environments such as steel mills and nuclear plants. Currently, Jarmo works as an Electrical Supervisor/Commissioning Engineer for...

PASSION TO THE CONSULTING WORLD – THE STORY OF IRENE OLIVER PUERTA I was born in the North-West of Spain, in a small industrial town called La Bañeza, in the province of León. We moved to Guadalajara when I was a small child, where I lived with my family until I was...

EMPOWERING OUR PROJECT CUSTOMERS TO NEXT LEVEL In 1945, Vannevar Bush stated in his famous essay "As We may think", that the mankind has reached the point where the amount of information is uncontrollable by a human. Technical aids are needed to control and understand...

BECOMING THE MOST DESIRED EMPLOYER Looking from recruiter’s perspective - the engineering job market in Finland has “tightened up” in the last few years. In 2019 Prohoc’s customers are asking an increasing number of experts from the growing company. How to handle the...

INTRIGUING ENGINEERING Tuomo Lekkerimäki is a Prohoc professional who has worked with our company on different roles abroad. One of his recent projects were on Valmet’s pulp mill project where he worked as a site manager and an installation supervisor.  Tuomo was born...

PROHOC's WELLBEING CAMPAIGN In Prohoc we believe that our mission as a company is to be the most wanted project partner in the market. To achieve this mission, we need the most empowered personnel. Our employees are our focus and we want to encourage our people to...

PROHOC EMPOWERING PROJECTS A vigorous delivery strategy typically drives the project’s success. Project owners can improve the success of the investment by performing an early assessment of the key objectives for the project and analyse the delivery strategies...

Project Contract Strategies In the world of projects, contractual strategy if among the most important decisions. In this article, we’ll introduce the most commonly used contractual arrangements from the owner’s perspective. The owner’s success in the project is about...

Integration of QMS and strategy Prohoc has been an ISO9001 certified company since 2003. ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 have also been in place for years. When renewing our strategy last year, we realized that we had a lot of elements of our new strategy in the standards....

Competing with the very best future project managers in the world This blog is written by a Prohoc summer trainee, Junior Project Engineer Juho Veteläinen a student of Vaasa University of Applied Sciences studying Mechanical Engineering and specialized in Process- and...

At Prohoc we have started the new year on a new path. We believe that the world of projects is getting even more COMPLEX, FAST-PACED and TURBULENT. In parallel to this we also see a change in the dynamics of work and how the younger generations are breaking the...