The last ten years has seen an explosion in the amount of data that organizations capture and manage. The Federal government is no different. The requirements for capturing data about investments, programs, and project execution have grown almost every year. Similarly, requirements surrounding IT and physical security, organizational performance and business process execution have ensured that even as the Federal government consolidates its data center infrastructure, there is no lack of data to manage.
A strong business strategy can lay the groundwork for positive direction in an organization, and a strong IT strategy can ensure that its systems and infrastructure are well designed and executed and built with an eye toward the future, but it is alignment of these two that will make or break many organizations as both business and society become more intertwined with all things digital. Is my business strategy at odds with what is feasible given the state of IT? Does my IT shop help me achieve my business goals and not pursue projects for their own sake? Do business and IT get in the way of one another?
As budgets tighten and more emphasis is placed on operational efficiency, planning and managing capital projects well becomes more important than ever. Through our experience in the Federal and private sectors, MB&A has developed a thorough understanding on the range of opportunities, requirements, and constraints facing organizations as they pursue their strategic goals. MB&A seeks to go above and beyond simple reporting requirements to develop processes that enable real business transformation and mission achievement.
While individual projects can and often do deliver significant value to an organization, more coordination and planning is required for driving larger-scale or wider-scoped outcomes. MB&A can support the development and administration of your project portfolio by leveraging our Federal and private sector experiences to your advantage. Sound program management approaches and techniques enable your projects to be greater than simply the sum of their parts.
The days of the infrastructure CIO are gone forever. Today’s CIO holds the keys to delivering informational value and technology as a differentiator to the entire organization. As budgets tighten the CIO is also faced with tough choices regarding outsourcing, cloud computing, managed services and a bewildering array of services that are hybrids of now familiar models like software as a service. These choices can equate to enormous opportunity if they provide value to the whole organization, but they often do not come without risks or tradeoffs. Security, privacy, data integrity and access are real issues in this more complex information driven age.
MB&A principals and employees have spent the last several years serving some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. The Federal government faces unique challenges on several fronts. The operating environment is inherently complex due to complex governance, an ever changing political landscape, and the implications of tightening budgets. Now more than ever Federal organizations need their planning capabilities to enable them to respond to change in an agile manner without losing sight of the comprehensive requirements for procurement and governance that can stifle innovation and performance improvement.
In-depth discussion of the applications domain as it relates to enterprise architecture and its relationship to the other domains within the framework. Particular attention is paid to applications dash boarding for executives and key areas for understanding emerging topics like service provision and business reference model linkages as well as how they relate to EA programs.
The world gets a little more complicated every day; dealing with increasing complexity doesn’t have to do the same. Developing a line of sight from strategy to implementation, building a performance management program that identifies organizational pain points, and understanding how to undertake business process improvement activities can help take some of the pain out of the ever-increasing complexity federal organizations are facing.
Millsapps, Ballinger & Associates (MB&A) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business(SDVOSB) full life-cycle management consulting company focusing on helping organizations achieve their goals and increase organizational performance. Our company believes that technology can be a force multiplier for positive change and that being able to consistently get the right information in the right hands in order to make the right decision is what makes an organization most effective.
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