Central government excels in knowledge-based management

Tietokiri project promotes the culture of knowledge-based management in central government. It was created based on a need to make better decisions in the more complex world where more information is generated every second. Government agencies have a great deal of responsibility for the generation of accurate information and for offering the opportunity to utilise it.

Decisions will be better if they are based on an analysis of versatile information of a high quality. Over the course of the year, Hansel’s experts presented Hansel’s analysis services at, for instance, the Valtio Expo event in May and at the opening event of Tietokiri in September. Furthermore, we published case studies, blogs and weekly key figures that highlighted interesting details regarding the central government knowledge base on the Tietokiri.fi website.

Hansel has determinedly developed the utilisation of procurement data over the past few years. The government procurement data service was the first to be completed. Inspired by it, a decision was made to create the Tutkihankintoja.fi service that offers the information to the general public easily and in a visual manner. The same documents were also added to the avoindata.fi service. The most recent addition to Hansel’s analysis product family is Hankintapulssi, a service for Hansel’s customers (a link to the article Planning improves management of procurement) which provides more information on the procurement projects realised by the customer organisations.

“Electronic services are a good place to start the investigation of procurement data. If customers become interested in further utilisation of the existing data, we can make them comprehensive spend analyses and action proposals,” explains Tuula Risikko, development manager.

The most active participants to Tietokiri during its first year of operation were, in addition to Hansel, the State Treasury, which was tasked with the management of Tietokiri, HAUS, the National Land Survey of Finland, the Finnish Government Shared Services Centre for Finance and HR (Palkeet), Senate Properties and Vimana. The project aims at making the results of knowledge-based management more clearly visible and sharing tested tools and methods. Other goals are collecting a shared state governance knowledge base and offering analysis services and data visualisation to governmental organisations. Additional information: www.tietokiri.fi