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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Program Trade Analysis</strong></span>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  How do you make the right program funding choices in a tough fiscal environment?</strong></span></h5>
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	<li>Manage delivery of required operational capabilities</li>
	<li>Deliver quicker, less costly mission capabilities to the field</li>
	<li>Do it all within a static or shrinking budget</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Our portfolio decision modeling helps you foresee consequences of resource allocation options</em></strong></span></h5>
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	<li>See your current and projected status against key objectives and metrics</li>
	<li>Link program delivery dates to capability objectives, and see critical interdependencies</li>
	<li>Track and monitor dynamic factors such as cost, schedule, and performance</li>
	<li>Drive resource allocations to best pursue your goals, informed by key data</li>
	<li>Perform real-time “what if” drills, and see the results… and the unintended consequences</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Instant comparisons of alternative plans help you best allocate resources to achieve your goals</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5><strong><span style="color: #808000;">Example: Office of the Secretary of Defense:      </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #808000;">Chemical and Biological Defense Program</span></strong></h5>
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	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Support organization in Agency “cut drills” but manage risks to operational capability timelines and performance</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  A process and support tool that allows decision makers to dynamically choose options and immediately see likely impact on their program portfolio’s cost, schedule, and performance objectives</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Program Risk Analysis</strong></span>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  How can you better predict and manage risks to program delivery?</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>Collect, analyze, and disseminate programmatic data quickly</li>
	<li>Anticipate risks to program execution before they occur</li>
	<li>Provide leadership with accurate forecasts of program health</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Our predictive analytics provide advance insights into potential program deficiencies and their impacts</em></strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>A proven cross-functional process framework promotes broad participation and consensus</li>
	<li>Predictive analytics employ proven metrics that point to root causes</li>
	<li>Automated data collection and reporting eases implementation burdens</li>
	<li>Interactive dashboards enable "what-if" drills to quickly test potential scenarios</li>
	<li>A focused set of options drives key program cost/schedule/performance risk mitigation actions</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Advance insights into risks help you build practical mitigation plans to head off adverse consequences</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Example: Navy ASN(RDA):  Probability of Program Success (PoPS) and the Program Gate Review Process</strong></span></h5>
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	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Forecast and avert program risks, lacking effective and consistent enterprise metrics, analytics, and reporting</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  Our staff members developed an analytically-sound, data-driven approach for evaluating all Naval programs for risks. This tailored "PoPS" process and tool is now integrated into the Navy leadership's Program Gate Review process.</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  Balancing targeted investments in infrastructure against other areas that also drive success</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>How well does the physical infrastructure or the IT infrastructure support the mission?</li>
	<li>Which potential enhancements might deliver greatest impact?</li>
	<li>How to optimize across a set of potential investments?</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>We combine powerful data management, "what if" visualization of options, and solution optimization</em></strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>See impacts of potential investments, and help forecast future needs</li>
	<li>Account for the effects of thousands of assets and interdependencies simply and effectively</li>
	<li>Open up a range of new options and strategies</li>
	<li>Plan and implement your investments with confidence</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Simplify and enhance asset management and planning</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Example:  Commander, US Navy Installations Command</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Provide programmatic decision support to implement budget cuts, while resourcing thousands of Naval infrastructure facilities and assets as part of a worldwide capital investment strategy</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  We developed a process and web-based model to facilitate enterprise collaboration, data gathering, and decision review, helping CNIC build and manage infrastructure development plans</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Transition and Resource Planning</strong></span>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  Managing assets and resources to ensure continuity of operations during transitions</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>For organizational transitions, unit moves, BRAC shifts, re-basings, and mission location changes:  can I execute my transition while still maintaining my operations and mission capability?</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>We help you create and resource transition plans aligned to your ongoing mission needs</em></strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>Capture, integrate, and understand the key elements of transition planning</li>
	<li>Apply proven scheduling models and effective  data management</li>
	<li>Plan, manage, and optimize resources to meet your objectives</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>You can "build the airplane while flying it", ensuring operational continuity throughout your transition</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Example:  US Army Armor and Infantry Schools</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Consolidate Fort Knox's Armor School and Fort Benning's Infantry School, with no slowdown in training</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  Partnering with the Schools to plan the transition of critical resources from Knox and the dual use of facilities at Benning. We helped forecast resource conflicts two years in advance, so mitigation strategies could be developed well ahead of time.</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Energy Planning and Decision Analysis</strong></span>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  Managing assets and resources to ensure continuity of operations during transitions</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>What is the baseline and projected energy consumption?</li>
	<li>Will current investment plans meet energy policy goals and mandates?</li>
	<li>How to best invest in alternative energy or conservation projects?</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>We help predict future energy use drivers, and help you optimize across a set of potential investments</em></strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>Apply proven analytics and optimization models</li>
	<li>Track and forecast energy needs and trends</li>
	<li>Identify optimal project investments, sensitive to conditions and risks</li>
	<li>Assess plans for ability to meet policy goals</li>
	<li>Plan and fund the right projects with confidence</li>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Predict and manage future energy requirements, and select energy infrastructure projects for maximum impact</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Example:  US Navy and US Air Force Fuel Use Predictive Modeling</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Understand the potential risks and benefits of procurement and upgrade decisions on a range of operational energy expenditures</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  Our staff partnered with the Navy and Air Force to model and visualize aggregate fuel consumption over time, with scenario-based "what if's" for individual platforms and across the fleet</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Operational Capability Assessment</strong></span>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Challenge:  How do I determine investment priorities, across an entire portfolio or enterprise, with a wide range of contending programs, options, and needs?</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>How to determine investment priorities across an entire enterprise, or across a mission-portfolio of programs - a scope containing a wide set of competing priorities and contending options and needs</li>
	<li>How to focus on and best enhance a single, high-importance capability</li>
	<li>If operations involve multiple goals or capabilities, and success requires addressing all of them:  Where to act first, and how?</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Our proven approach provides an analytically-sound, data-driven way to determine priority needs and opportunities</em></strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li>Evaluate plans and programs against operational needs</li>
	<li>Identify and prioritize limiting factors</li>
	<li>Derive key data from proven, efficient processes</li>
	<li>Identify potential trades, and areas for accepting risk</li>
	<li>Link priority needs to actions that best drive progress</li>
</ul>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #808000;"><strong><em>Drive the development of prioritized action plans and effective investment roadmaps, targeted for success</em></strong></span></h5>
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<h5><span style="color: #808000;"><strong>Example:  US Air Force Capability Review and Risk Assessment (CRRA)</strong></span></h5>
<ul>
	<li><strong>Challenge: </strong> Develop a sound, consistent, data-driven method to prioritize investments across a range of contending needs</li>
	<li><strong>Solution:</strong>  Our staff partnered with HQ, US Air Force and Air Force major commands to develop and implement a strategic planning approach which the Air Force has continued to employ for a decade. Key data, capability-focused metrics, and stakeholder involvement drive quick and dynamic modeling and assessment of alternatives</li>
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