It is often difficult for clients to link strategic objectives to actionable investment strategies through data-driven approaches and tools. To meet objectives in an increasingly complex fiscal and operational environment, senior decision makers need options for the future. Booz Allen Hamilton’s enterprise architecture and assessment tools offer the right support to help you better integrate and plan for the challenges ahead.
Turn to the Booz Allen’s strategy and technology consultants for solutions that not only help identify capability needs but also evaluate alternatives against stakeholder priorities. Non-materiel and materiel portfolio managers gain insights into evaluating current and planned investments against required capabilities—and developing a roadmap to achieve goals.
With significant analytics to back up critical decisions, these managers are in a powerful position. Booz Allen solutions empower leaders with technical, programmatic, and performance analysis of integrated systems and architectures. Our experience providing decision-quality recommendations has been instrumental to major capability initiatives across the defense, civil, and security sectors. Clients turn to us to integrate analyses that disclose at-risk funding, overlaps and gaps, and interoperability issues in the context of real-world mission scenarios.
DOTMLPF analysis bridges the as-is and to-be states by defining, analyzing, and addressing gaps that impede current maturing capabilities or programs of record. The analyses draw on a mix of qualitative information based on concepts, stakeholder priorities, strategic guidance, assumptions, and constraints as well as quantitative information for risk and cost analysis. DOTMLPF analysis is the methodology that supports efficient, effective, actionable recommendations for maturing a concept via materiel and non-materiel solutions.
Portfolio Management and Decision Support
From concept to implementation, the Booz Allen process for portfolio management helps clients prioritize and monitor the impacts of budgetary decisions, align portfolio capabilities with mission needs, and analyze interdependencies. Leaders are better able to address program health, risk and vulnerabilities, return on investment (ROI), and more. Booz Allen works with the operational communities to understand current and future requirements while ensuring that the acquisition and engineering communities are developing technologies to meet those needs. Along the way, we help optimize resources across stakeholder communities to maximize capability and minimize risk.
Be ready for what’s next with Booz Allen’s Dynamic Capabilities Assessment Model (DCAM). DCAM provides a visualization and analytical modeling platform for helping align decisions, investments, and project schedules to best meet mission requirements. DCAM enables decision makers to dynamically play “what-if” games based on changing priorities or availability of resources. DCAM offers a dashboard for decision making by visually depicting the integration of data from all components of the portfolio
Booz Allen consultants help program managers and manufacturers address the ongoing dilemma of how to increase system capability while reducing costs. Our solution is based on a step-change approach that systematically evaluates all cost drivers, starting with platform design. We seek ways of simplifying designs without sacrificing capability, standardizing components across the platform, and recommending less expensive alternatives. The Dynamic Design Assessment Tool (DDAT) gives program managers a dashboard view of various courses of action to help them make better decisions on platform design and integration.
Booz Allen’s Probability of Program Success (PoPS) methodology enables clients to assess the health of an acquisition initiative, likelihood of implementation, and associated impact on objectives. This methodology is key to program performance and risk mitigation across the acquisition life cycle, providing a standard set of processes and tools that can be used to make comparisons of and trades across portfolios. PoPS is currently being used as the standard for program health analysis within the Department of the Navy.
PMDSS is an additional tool in the suite of capabilities-based decision support toolsets. This methodology provides decision makers with common, understandable, repeatable, retrievable, and pedigreed data and analysis to inform investment decisions. Leaders are able to manage their portfolio capabilities with a before-and-after evaluation of programs based on a series of redefinable attributes.
