Organizational leaders execute their business strategy and shape their organizations through large and small investment programs and managing these programs effectively is a key determinant of the success of the enterprise.

1. Acquisition Management System: Secure successful decisions for the funding of our customers’ capital programs for technology investments using our deep understanding of agencies’ acquisition management system.
2. OMB MIBC Development: Support our clients to develop the Major Investment Business Case (MIBC) for technology investments based on OMB capital planning guidance.
3. Key Program Artifact Development: Support our clients to develop key program-level artifacts including Concept of Operations, Program Functional and Automation Requirements, Shortfall Analysis, Implementation Strategy and Plan.
4. Performance Metrics-Based Evaluation: Enable proactive decision-making and timely course corrections based on metrics-driven investment program performance evaluations.

1. Workforce: Skilled team that applies deep knowledge of CPIC, OMB policies, AMS and investment program management lifecycle towards program success.
2. Intelligent Solution: At-A-Glance dashboard visualizations containing program status, roadmaps, and risks.
3. Effectiveness: Integrated Master Schedule and collaboration/tracking tools (JIRA, Confluence) lead to effective schedule, cost and risk control.
4. Reduced Cost: Effective risk treatment plans result in mitigation or avoidance of risk contribute to reductions in cost.

Effective financial management of all federal initiatives, programs, and investments is an integral part of responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. This requires a fundamental shift in thinking from viewing finance as a “back-office” function to a key area of support to the enterprise in fulfilling its goals and objectives.

1. Budget Planning and Forecasting Support: Develop detailed and roll-up cost estimates for major investment programs to support agency level budget planning.
2. Financial Auditing: Proactive financial auditing and monitoring to ensure all aspects of the contract are within the purview of the Acquisition Management System (AMS).
3. Financial Transaction validity: Confirmation of financial transactions via auditing enabling customer to focus on program and project goals.
4. Contract Close-Outs: Provide basic and comprehensive fiscal year closings of all projects as well as the close-outs at the end of a contract's life. Transparent accounting of projects enables the client to identify areas of improvements.

1. Workforce: Skilled team that applies financial management competency to the federal customers’ advantage budget planning and forecasting and increasing project accounting transparency.
2. Intelligent Solution: Supporting clients by training financial management personnel in tracking contract close-outs so deobligation of unliquidated balances occurs in a timely manner.
3. Effectiveness: Ensuring financial transaction validity and timely contract closeouts position the customer in a greater state of reading for possible audits.
4. Reduced Cost: Proper contract closeout helps the customer save money by repurposing unused funds for other priorities and stretching budgets.

BPR requires rethinking and re-strategizing the existing way of doing business to achieve efficiency in performance, time, quality and cost. The challenge is that a lot of processes and work flow are archaic and slow, and can be made more efficient in a cost effective way.

1. Business Process Modeling: Understand the business of the agency and quickly transpose it into process models.
2. Process Categorization: Generate an enterprise taxonomy with high level categorization that adheres to the goals of the business and the agency.
3. Commonalities: Establish overlapping commonalities across the business processes to highlight areas of improvement.
4. To-Be Processes: Without redesigning the entire process, transition into developing the pockets of the new processes by simple techniques such as deploying process automation or integration with other processes.

1. Workforce: Skilled team that understands the requirements and business, and can generate models to help analyze the areas of improvement.
2. Intelligent Solution: Process models with large views to display the existing landscape of the business.
3. Effectiveness: Process evaluation on the business processes that may not be as effective today and not keeping up with the organizational and technological changes.
4. Reduced Cost: Cost effective recommendations involving simple tools for modeling and generating models that highlight areas that can be fixed with varying degree of complexity.

Successful organizations share a common characteristic – an unwavering focus on quality assurance to deliver products and services 1) “right the first time” and serving the purpose they are intended for.

1. Enterprise Architecture Quality Assurance: Offer our clients the highest level of Quality Assurance service to ensure that the EA artifacts and processes are free of defects and serve the purpose of the broad customer base.
2. Software Quality Assurance: Interweave quality assurance processes conformant with CMMI ML 3 DEV guidance as part of the entire development lifecycle. Special emphasis on Quality Assurance in DevOps project engagements as it is vital to the success of DevOps’ Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
3. Investment Program Management Quality Assurance: Develop the QA plan, policy, standard operating procedures and activities to ensure that investment program goals are met.
4. Surveillance and Audits: Establish regular internal checks on quality conformance through surveillance and formal audits of processes and work products.

1. Workforce: Skilled team adept at infusing ISO 9001:2015 quality management principles in processes, products and services rendered to our customers.
2. Intelligent Solution: Develop situation-appropriate (user-based, product-based, service-based, etc.) Measurement & Analysis capability to as an integral part of the QA service.
3. Effectiveness: Continually apply lessons learned from previous QA efforts to current and future projects and help instill in customer staff a quality maximization mindset.
4. Reduced Cost: Corrective actions identified during internal audits and QA checks are addressed in a timely manner, often resulting in cost savings and less rework.