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When the options are many, time is of the essence, and resources are limited, you need a tool that reveals the obvious choice. And fast.

What Matters Most. In one place.

Spend less time debating and more time moving projects to the finish line. Create the foundation for critical decisions by by determining your overall vision, primary goal, and strategic priorities and objectives first. Then watch everything else fall in line.

Democratize the planning and project selection process.

View your goal and strategic priorities and objectives in one place.

Reduce bias with a data-backed approach.

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Keep Subjective Criteria on the Table

Don't let "it can't be measured" stop you from including it as a criterion for your decision. If it moves you toward achieving your goal, then it needs to be included. And now you can.

Allovance's custom metrics allow you to quantify subjective criteria creating a level playing field for both qualitative and quantitative criteria.

You may find that building a new basketball court is actually more important than you thought.

Incorporate feedback from internal and external experts.

Create custom metrics and scales.

Increase alignment.

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Strategic Alignment For the Common Good

Align the work you do everyday with your strategic priorities. Simply enter an existing or proposed project and it will be considered against all projects using the same standards of assessment. Each project will receive a strategic value score based on how closely it aligns to your strategic priorities.

You may just find out that building that new stadium is more aligned with your strategic priorities than you thought.

Receive a strategic value for existing & proposed projects.

View all existing and proposed projects one on screen.

Easily justify decisions.

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CUSTOM FORMS

Collaborate with Your Community

Open the door to your community. Allow community members to submit proposed projects in custom project forms. Then let Allovance do the rest.

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Strategic Value Scorecard

Gather Community Feedback

Want to know how your community feels about the leadership's stated priorities? Run a model and compare scorecards.

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Custom Reports

Justify Your Decisions

Don't think twice when asked to justify your decisions. With all projects submitted using the same form and weighed against the same criteria, you can respond in confidence to community members, compliance officials, and other stakeholders.

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"The Allovance Method was instrumental in helping. The data made it easy to receive board approval."

Tom Crawford, Chief Financial Officer

Secretary, Local Development Finance Authority

"They can physically see one sheet, one screen, on a computer that tells them all the basics about their project instead of scrolling through a bunch of tabs in an old database."

Deb Gosselin

Systems Planning Engineer IV, City of Ann Arbor

"We were able to identify five programs in our budget that had low strategic value and reallocate $300,000 to new projects with more strategic value than anything we had previously funded."

City of Battle Creek

Collobrate Across Departments & Agencies

Save time while securely working together in person, remotely, or a bit of both.

Strategic Team

Leadership team responsible for the decision. Defines strategic priorities, identify top goals, organizational values, and measurable objectives.

Expert

Subject matter expert responsible for creating metrics and sales for objectives.

Project Owner

Individuals responsible for submitting proposed projects or initiatives and scoring their projects on its alignment with the Strategic Value Scorecard.

Project Review Team

Team that reviews projects and initiatives to ensure accuracy and objectivity.

Observer

Individuals with view only access.

Custom Roles

Need a different role? Your Allovance partner can help ensure the right roles are applied to your organization.

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Case Study

Local Development Finance Authority

Transparently Allocating Funding to Initiatives Supporting the Mission

Bring your capital planning into the 21st century with a tool that streamlines the functions of multiple tools into one streamlined tool. Leverage the power of modern technology and collaboration to spend less time debating and more time serving your community.

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