Embed Business Analytics Into Your Decision-Making DNA
Strategic Resource Allocation:
- Translate corporate strategy into resource allocation strategies that realize your organization's strategic objectives.
- Utilize strategic investment criteria, to actively bias resource allocation and to effect your desired portfolio investment profile.
- Compare and contrast alternative strategic investment scenarios on financial, strategic, resource utilization, and risk measures.
Project Portfolio Optimization:
- Capture the value you are likely forfeiting through prioritization methods that use rating & ranking type scoring models.
- Optimally allocate time, people, and capital, period-by-period, over your planning horizon - with a wide range of "what-if" levers.
- Actively incorporate strategic constraints, risk diversification, and inter-project dependencies and/or mutual exclusivities.
Market Forecasting & Simulation:
- Comprehend the impact of major market trends and the dynamics of your competitive industry structure.
- Easily create business case inputs that are credible for market demand, selling prices, COGS, and upfront investment costs.
- Allow key uncertain assumptions to interact, in order to generate high-confidence, robust forecasts for your decision analyses.
Risk-based Project-level Valuation:
- Learn how to distinguish and model the marginal costs and benefits of a project investment, while excluding shared overhead costs.
- Properly treat sunk costs, continuing values for project investments, and costs-of-capital/discount rates for present value calculations.
- Harness monte carlo simulation for the key uncertain assumptions that drive upfront investment costs and that dictate project returns.
