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The FreeBalance Governance Framework

GRP solutions such as the FreeBalance Accountability Suite™ are used to automate financial functions in government and provide a set of tools that are used by civil servants whose capabilities either improve or reduce government effectiveness. This has positive or negative effects that are exposed in measures like credit ratings, the Corruption Perception Index and other important composite indicators like World Governance Indicators.

The Government Wellbeing Balanced Scorecard

Wellbeing and happiness are multivariate where culture plays an important role in citizen perceptions. Nonetheless, public policy can be simplified when planning is aligned to national wellbeing and when using effective performance tools.

How to Create Government KPIs

Many data sources are available to government decision-makers. However, these data sources with their multitudes of measurements may not be relevant to improving government performance in pursuit of policy objectives. Yet, relevant KPIs are fundamental to public accountability.

How Can Governments Create Happiness?

The World Happiness Report measures national happiness and the impact of public policy. Find out how can governments can create happiness here.

Agile Facilitates Government Change Management

Is agile the magic bullet for government project success? We’re agile advocates because of improved success rates using agile product development, agile project management and agile country development. Our methodology, A-i3+qM is built on proven good practices and almost 40 years of exclusive government implementations.

How Does Public Financial Management Support the SDGs?

Public Financial Management (PFM) is often seen as a cross-cutting governance reform. The notion is that PFM improvements can lead to service delivery, anti-corruption, public investment and equality improvements – in other words, good PFM supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

What Does FreeBalance Software Cost?

There is significant evidence to show that costs for maintaining and supporting Tier 1 ERP systems is far more expensive than the FreeBalance alternative.

The Importance of Interoperability in Government eProcurement

Public procurement is the main driver of government operations. Globally, governments spend $13 trillion a year on public procurement contracts. For every $3 of public spending, $1 goes to private contractors tasked with implementing government projects. Public procurement can account for around 13% to 15% of GDP. This means that a good public procurement process … Continued

How to Design a Financial Management Information System

We would like to extend concepts introduced in the paper through the lens of enterprise software technology and implementation practices with a few recommendations.

Value for Money in Government Procurement

V4M (Value for Money), is in many ways, the public sector equivalent of ROI (Return on Investment). However, there is no bottom line in the public sector. Governments have mandates and need to optimize outputs, outcomes and impact. V4M provides a methodology for doing so.

Gateway Requirements for Effective FMIS Tenders

Governments can align government priorities with FMIS acquisition processes through the use of “gateway” requirements. These requirements recognize vendor capabilities to support and sustain PFM reform in line with government needs.

How to Improve FMIS Tenders

FMIS tenders result from complex strategic, tactical and administrative work. To improve FMIS tenders one needs to understand this process.

GRP is not ERP

It is our view that true GRP systems are more financially sustainable than ERP systems or custom-developed and have all the positive characteristics of ERP – COTS quality, new releases and custom-developed (platform reuse). Quite simply, open systems are critical for long-term financial sustainability

Organizational Change Management in Large IT Projects

There are many large project IT failures in government particularly with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Although the government context adds difficulty to making IT projects successful, many large private sector projects also have trouble achieving IT goals.