CPIC On-DemandTM

CPIC On-Demand™

We understand that the cost to acquire and maintain full-time access to specialized CPIC analytical tools, expertise and data resources can be significant. It's also safe to conclude that only a select few of the more sophisticated CPIC program management environments can afford, justify or gain the benefits of the investment required. CPIC On-Demand™ is designed to increase access to the right solutions and resources needed for your Capital Planning and Investment Control challenges.

The most powerful, enterprise-wide solutions aren’t always best for you…

Start with an honest assessment of what your organization does well (and not so well) throughout the Capital Planning and Investment Control life cycle. You may be surprised how little in the way of CPIC analytical tools, expertise and research database resources are actually necessary. Organizations that skip this important step often find themselves erring on the side of far too much power and sophistication to be effective. The stories are commonplace - years of effort attempting to implement the most powerful and sophisticated management information processing - resulting in solutions for some, and burdens for many.

Flexibility to match tools to needs

without losing consistency

CPIC Solutions’ on demand approach matches tools with necessity - but the artifacts produced are reusable - not stove-piped. Small organizations and part-time users can find answers to their need for CPIC analytical processing and support without adding unnecessary software assets, training and maintenance overheads. Temporary access to reliable tools and borrowed expertise suit these users well, but too much flexibility can raise the risk of creating ad hoc processes and disintegrated portfolio planning. CPIC Solutions’ On-Demand™ approach maintains necessary commonality by applying flexible tools and techniques in a process framework built for information re-use.

Applying specialized tools and techniques

Reusable artifacts have meaning as inputs or outputs to a wide variety of analytical tools and techniques. CPIC On-Demand™ applies this principle to enable the flexibility in the use of analysis tools. So long as every step of the Capital Planning and Investment Control life cycle works on a foundation of information building-blocks, the management processes behind the analysis and information processing stay organized into artifact-supported pathways. Specific analytical tools and techniques contribute to specific results that essential in their own way - a cost baseline, a benefits model, schedule analysis, risk assessment, etc. These analysis artifacts are "borrowed, bettered, and returned" along the way.

Data Conditioning, Transformation, and Foundations

Without context and a scale of reference, even the best-matched set of analysis and reporting tools are limited in what they can do to improve your ability to plan and manage for better CPIC results. And, without a history of operating CPIC business and analysis processes continuously building and re-using organizational knowledge, can a potential “data dilemma” be overcome for early CPIC On-Demand™ results? The answer is yes, and you may be surprised to learn that much of the data you require is all around you waiting to be discovered and transformed into usable information assets.

CPIC On-Demand™ Pre-Select Phase – analysis tools, data and templates for conceptual performance planning, rough order magnitude cost estimating, schedule milestone analysis and associated uncertainty and risk analysis

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CPIC On-Demand™ Select Phase – analysis tools appled to the task of formal life-cycle cost and benefits analysis with risk and uncertainty applied. The Select Phase analysis requires additional basis of estimating and planning up to the task of formal buisness case development and investment review decision processes. Analysis tools in the Select Phase also support the structured decision-making processes.

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CPIC On-Demand™ Control Phase – analysis and reporting tools to support tranisition from planning into active acquisition. Continuity of cost estinating, performance benefits baselines, requirements management and integrated schedule baselines is a key feature of information processing and analysis in the program control environment. In addition, increased emphasis is common in relation to Earned Value Management reportong and analysis as well as risk assessment, analysis and corrctive action planning.

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CPIC On-Demand™ Evaluation Phase – analysis and reporting tools to support quantified information collection and decision making for the systems in steady state operations. Evaluation phase analysis requires performance planning and measurment for operational and finiancial factors. The Evanluation Phase also benefits from quantified techniques that can be applied to decision-making for system enhancement, modernaization, obsolescence mitigation and retirement planning.

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Multi-Phase CPIC On-Demand™ solutions – analysis and reporting tools that support portfolio-level information processing and management. Multi-phase tools involve support activity such as the transition from budget authorization, through Acquisition Program Baseline and into creation and use of Earned Value Management Performance Baselines; or, life-cycle activity such as maintenance of through-life performance improvement schedule.

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