We have very good reasons to celebrate the closing of another great Year, and we’re very proud of our achievements:
Deployed SMART GOVERNANCE in more geographies, and in more economic sectors, while also expanding the usage in the existing Customer base.
Our team continues to develop itself and the product innovation pace has increased.
Release, release, release… 😉 https://www.smartgovernance.pt
Happy New Year!
In another year where we’ve beat all our previous records with excellent results, deployed SMART GOVERNANCE in new geographies, continued to grow our team, all this while running our entire operation remotely, we’d like to thank you for your support, your interest, and for being part of the SMART GOVERNANCE family. 😄
Happy New Year from everyone in our team!!
We wish you and your family a Happy Christmas 😊
Stay safe, and may the joy and wonder of this festive season bring you happiness and peace.
Wishing you health, hope, joy, and prosperity this Christmas season.
Pay it forward and make someone smile too.
Cheers!!
Changing the World by impacting the day to day of leaders and decision makers is an honorable mission that’ll echo through the next generations.
Delivering agility, transparency, efficiency and efficacy that span throughout the entire Organization, while experiencing stories that one day will be worth sharing with your grandchildren, drives your motivation and fuels your actions to push forward.
We’re hiring on our Lisbon office.
If this appeals to you, send us your CV and your thoughts on why you believe you’re the right person for the job (on a format of your choosing that we must be able to view), both in english, by applying here.
We’re looking for someone who wishes to be part of and contribute to this tech endeavor, enrolling on a sustainable team and our collective dream to change the World, one decision at a time.
We’re working with customers and events in several countries, so travelling will be involved.
You can learn more about SMART GOVERNANCE with this 30 seconds briefing:
A project manager guides the team towards success. The project manager should provide team members with direction and clearly define what is expected of each team member, by clearly explaining the role each must contribute with to the team’s objective. The project manager must have the capability to clearly identify and incorporate the resources and skills required to build a team that performs and delivers exceptional results.
The project manager establishes the bridge between our customers and the teams. The project manager must coordinate and secure the communication of all the relevant information between the customers and the teams, while guaranteeing proper reporting to the upper management. The project manager should work closely with software developers and other staff members and clearly communicate the goals and deliverables of the project. The project manager must monitor the progress of the project, taking action accordingly on a daily basis to secure the intended successful outcome.
The project manager must be there to guide the team at every step and ensure that the team has cohesion. Providing advice to the team wherever is needed and aiding in pointing the team members in the right direction is a very important contribution by the project manager.
The project manager is responsible for the successful delivery of projects (both new business and business continuity projects) on time and in budget, while achieving optimal customer satisfaction, by planning, coordinating, scheduling, time managing, budget and cost controlling, reporting, risk mitigating, communicating, controlling task execution, and managing expectations with all relevant stakeholders.
After a project successful conclusion, the project manager must successfully and seamlessly transition the deliverables from the project conclusion into the business continuity operational team, and communicate the project outcomes and achievements to the rest of the internal Organization.
The project manager is also responsible to identify new opportunities in customers currently being worked on for up-selling and cross-selling.
Creativity, managing capabilities, and an excellent comprehension of software solutions, both on technical and functional topics, are important required skills.
Ability to fluently speak, read and write Portuguese (Portugal) and English.
Networking, Persuasion, Prospecting, Public Speaking, Research, Writing, Closing Skills, Motivation for Sales, Prospecting Skills, Sales Planning, Identification of Customer Needs and Challenges, Territory Management, Market Knowledge, Professionalism, and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio).
Interested? Apply here, share on how you believe you can contribute and don’t forget to attach your CV.
Another year working hard, with more experience gained, and a growing sense of achievement.
This was the year we were all put to the test.
It proved to be a momentous opportunity to test our resilience and contribute to keep our customers businesses afloat.
And boy, did we pass with flying colors.
Our team continued to grow, even during the COVID-19 Pandemic Big Confinement, and so did our customer base, both in and outside our domestic market. More geographies have joined the Smart Governance family and we’ve made an average of 3 newer product releases per month. That translates as more value, optimization, and innovation for our customers.
We also contributed on the COVID-19 front, coming to the aid of our Health Sector customers.
You can learn more about our contributions on the Smart Governance for Health LIVE EVENT (video recording, in portuguese) and our COVID-19 related content here, and by participating in several other community initiatives.
During this holiday season, we wish to express our gratitude for your trust, and for being a part of this movement for a more resilient and modern society, with fit and proper decision-making ecosystems.
With all our heart, we wish that the upcoming year will be filled with success and good health, and that you and your family thrive.
Happy New Year!
Pushing forward.
Not all news during the COVID-19 pandemic are bad 😊
We’re deeply humbled and very thankful for Rita Veloso‘s kind words. Rita is an Executive Member of the Board of Directors at Póvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde Hospital Center (Centro Hospitalar Povoa de Varzim – Vila do Conde), an Institution of HEROES who are in the front-line fighting against the coronavirus:
“In the past 2 years, one of the strategic axes for CHPVVC has been the strong and marked bet on a digital culture while involving its workforce and patients, promoting digital literacy in its community which contributed a lot to the reorganization of its departments and the implementation of work from home practices in reaction to this pandemic phase.
Therefore at a time when the rethinking of circuits and ways of working and communicating is critical, it was a necessity for us to guarantee leadership continuity and decision-making at the Board of Directors, in order to assure that the Institution continues to function normally.
Having been aware of the SMART GOVERNANCE solution for this digital management and, if necessary, also remotely, we established a partnership with the company CAVEDIGITAL, which promptly accepted the challenge and made this tool available in only a few days and which would allow us to implement this complex process.
Our experience could not have been any better. The preparation and organization of proposals by the different departments and the digital board meeting itself allowed not only better prior access to information but also its preparation and analysis. The board meeting has become much more agile and the time needed has been substantially reduced compared to the previous format (using paper documents and manual deliberations). It also allowed for the meeting to occur without requiring physical presence in the same room whenever it’s necessary. Another great advantage was the automatic registration of the deliberations in the minutes document and digitally signing it, rendering the whole process more transparent and secure.
The whole experience exceeded by far our expectations and for which we are very much grateful at a stage when our People need even more of each one of us.”
Rita Veloso, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, Póvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde Hospital Center
All our team is profoundly moved by Rita’s testimony and we’re grateful for having been given the opportunity to contribute.
Push Forward.
The purpose of this document is to provide clear, concise and actionable guidance for safe operations while applying preventive and auto-protection measures against COVID-19.
COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus. ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019-nCoV.’
The COVID-19 virus is a new virus linked to the same family of viruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and some types of common cold.
Read more on the World Health Organization website for more info: https://bit.ly/2TMRTbW
Conduct online any meetings that usually take place on premises.
Reinforce frequent handwashing and sanitation and procure needed supplies. Prepare and maintain handwashing stations with soap and water, and if possible, place alcohol-based hand rub (hand sanitizers) in each meeting room, at entrances and exits, and near lunchrooms and toilets.
Clean and disinfect office buildings, meeting rooms and especially water and sanitation facilities at least once a day, particularly surfaces that are touched by many people (railings, lunch tables, equipment, door and window handles, materials handled by multiple individuals, etc.)
Implement social distancing practices that may include:
Clearly define the chain of command and the process of fail-over and transmission of responsibility when and if anyone gets sick.
Promote work from home and preventive actions like social isolation practices to protect your workforce and decision-makers.
Provide guidance and best practices on how to work from home and staying disciplined and psychologically sane. This video from Harvard Business Review is a good starting point: https://bit.ly/2vkx53x
Just because you move your workforce off premises, this doesn’t have to translate into your Organization running into a stall and becoming paralyzed.
As long as you guarantee that your IT infrastructure allows your workforce to connect remotely to email and your SMART GOVERNANCE implementation, using VPN or other secure technical approaches (like exposing the application through HTTPS to the Public Cloud – make sure to use SSL certificates with 2048 bit length or more), collaboration and hierarchical approval processes can continue to occur in SMART GOVERNANCE.
The same is true for your Leadership Team, Committee Members, your Board of Directors and the Corporate Secretary team.
If these individuals have access remotely to email, video conferencing tools like Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business or Cisco WebEx (to name a few) and your SMART GOVERNANCE implementation, they can participate from off premises on governance meetings, and with this you’re guaranteeing that your leadership body is safe, healthy and ready.
Last but not least, work with your Application, Infrastructure and Service Partners in order to secure that, as their companies also roll-out their contingency plans and apply auto-protection measures, the capabilities and infrastructure are in place to allow their technical teams to continue to provide the same level of service and support remotely in order to protect your Organization’s business continuity.
A few hours ago, Microsoft as announced the release of the all new Microsoft Edge, based on the Chromium open source project.
With this new browser, Microsoft is aiming at «delivering better compatibility for everyone, less fragmentation for web developers, and a partnership with the Chromium community to improve the Chromium engine itself».
We’ve been busy bees as usual and have successfully tested and validated the latest version of SMART GOVERNANCE to be fully compatible with the new Microsoft Edge, on day zero of it’s release.
We remain focused on keeping our Customers on the edge of innovation (pun intended) with absolute commitment and determination.
Pushing Forward.
Did you know that we support millions of combinations of configurations with Smart Governance? That means that we support millions of possible scenarios with our product. Probably, your Organization scenario too 😉
Did you know that we’re working new geographies?
Did you know we’re hiring and expanding our team?
Did you know the Smart Governance family continues to grow?
We’re all in our team humbled by the great Year we had in 2019, excited by the awesome developments and all the work we’ve been putting into our product, and energized by the warm adoption continuously achieved with our Customers.
Thank you for being there, for your continued trust and for being part of this adventure.
May purpose continue to guide us all in 2020. Wishing you all an awesome New Year.
We wish you, your family and your friends, a Happy Christmas 🙂
No matter where you may be in the World, the warmth of Christmas will bring us closer together. May you have a wonderful holiday!
A big thank you to our Smart Governance family. Thanks for your continued trust, fellowship and long term commitment.
Last but not least, give the perfect gift to someone you love this Christmas: help them join a team of good people:
Let’s change the World, one Smart Governance at a time 🙂
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