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Prohoc Oy appoints Ilkka Palola as the CEO of Prohoc Group starting on 1 July 2021. Matti Manner will become Chairman of the Board of Prohoc Group. Ilkka Palola steps in as the CEO of Prohoc Group 1 July 2021. Currently Ilkka holds the position of Chief Human...

A story that began in 1996 has now reached its third chapter. At Prohoc we have created a new group structure with new subsidiaries, but more importantly, we have redefined our purpose. We believe that successful businesses will become platforms of wellbeing and...

On March 31, 2021, Prohoc Oy and Tähtipiste Oy agreed on a corporate aqcuisition in which Tähtipiste will become a subsidiary of Prohoc Group. With the aqcuisition, Prohoc has the ability to provide comprehensive manufacturing industry partner services to industrial...

The FLBI Vaasa Lifeboat Station Summer Season 2020 The FLBI Vaasa Lifeboat Station supports the authorities in rescue missions in the Northern Quark in Finland. The Station's operation area includes more than 5,500 islands, a sheltered archipelago, the open sea, and...

Prohoc is on a verge of expanding the service portfolio and utilizing new kind of business and project opportunities. In order to get there we are receiving a helping hand: Prohoc is proud to present Samuli Kyttälä, the Chief Business Officer. Samuli has extensive...

Capsulizing Empowerment - Introducing Prohoc's Symbol Every business leader, thinking consumer and sighted tradesperson is familiar with the idea of logo: a simple identifier of something abstruse. Logo is a face of an intangible entity, like a business organization...

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...