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CPIC Director™ - web-based CPIC workflow management
When compliance is no longer your only goal.
Getting better results is what really matters today, and a quicker solution is needed to improve processes and harness your resources. Here are five practical priorities to consider... |
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Start by using scarce resources wisely.
For organizations changing responsibilities, and adding new people and ideas every month, you must stay focused on producing what is important. Then you can increase repeatability from job to job, and maximize the capabilities of your resources. CPIC Director™ is designed to assist you to create the essential elements for improved planning, control, and decision making.
Reduce time and effort designing ineffective manuals,
or creating new review committees, or guessing which best practices are for you. CPIC Director™ helps you work in a way that stresses that every step of the Capital Planning and Investment Control life cycle works on a foundation of information building-blocks. Management processes are organized into artifact-supported pathways - each leading to a result that is important in its own way - a cost baseline, a benefits model, schedule analysis, risk assessment, etc. Artifacts are "borrowed, bettered, and returned" along the way.
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RECYCLE - for better integration and efficiency -
CPIC Director™ enables continuous information and knowledge re-use. Each step uses artifacts borrowed from previous steps, and delivers its additions to the process for later use. And most artifacts serve multiple purposes at once. By staying focused on re-using information, the organization's knowledge base becomes more valuable for everyone involved.
Create better continuity and collaboration -
CPIC Director™ techniques help you coordinate fragmented activity within your business by focusing on what is important from the end-to-end CPIC process viewpoint. CPIC Director™ methods address the business issues faced in each of the four CPIC life cycle phases – |
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New performance requirements emerge while aging systems and processes lose effectiveness and alternative solutions are needed. The CPIC Pre-Select Phase features exploration, invention and analysis aimed at producing effective proposals for investment funding. But how does that creativity get channeled to produce credible, consistent and comparable investment proposals? Disintegrated ideas expressed in inconsistent formats offer little to inform the coming portfolio selection and funding process. The artifact-based approach changes that by working with a common framework of essential information building blocks...
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In practice, portfolio selection and funding is not as simple as "racking-up" the investment proposals, and picking the winners and losers. Even with common scoring metrics and careful deliberation, the process is often complicated by factors such as partial funding, discontinuous timelines, deferred deployment, and many other real-world management challenges. The CPIC Director™approach builds components of information in a structure that links technical performance capability with time and resources. Alternatives can be compared directly, or examined with drill-down techniques to assess scheduling and funding options. CPIC Director™ processes include risk and uncertainty as an integral part of the portfolio selection process...
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when investments are approved, and budgets move toward execution, their plans become performance commitments, baselines become contracts, time starts ticking toward deadlines, and real money gets spent. The CPIC Control Phase cannot waste time on paper exercises and unnecessary reporting gymnastics. This is the phase during the CPIC life cycle when visibility and awareness is a key to success. What IS essential? timely and reliable information to keep programs on course to deliver the committed results. Clear views of original assumptions; isolating baseline change; knowing about trends that have led to current variances; all support better corrective actions.
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getting the most from delivered investment programs. The CPIC Director approach maintains continuity of information needed to plan for effective deployment and steady-state operations. Life-cycle cost and benefits baselines enable clear performance measurement and support well-timed system modernization or enhancements. Steady state programs leverage information artifacts produced from earlier CPIC life cycle phases; and they create performance metrics in the specific operating environments that your planners need to support better definition for future investments.
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CPIC Director™ Multi-Phase
CPIC Director's modular elements suit individual CPIC life-cycle phase. By design, the elements and components are readily combined to build end-to-end CPIC process frameworks. This modular design suits organizations that manage a blended portfolio of steady-state systems, active acquisitions, start-up investments and new proposals.
CPIC Director multi-phase solutions build the foundations for organization-wide best practices. Implementation is straightforward, and can be undertaken from the outset as a multi-phase solution project, or approached in segments as a modular CPIC Phase project. The same principles of re-use and efficiency apply to the CPIC Director implementations as they do to the CPIC processes themselves.
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