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The Future of PPBE: Part 3 - It's all about Advana The Commission mentioned Advana many times throughout the report. The idea behind Advana is to have it serve as the ‘dat...
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5 Obstacles to Better Public Sector Decision Making: Organizational Disjointedness Today’s interconnected world and ever-changing macro factors have rendered existing government planning silos obsolete.
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Overview: Six Guiding Principles of a Next-Generation Defense Budget System Whitepaper Overview of ways to improve the current defense budget system and the PPBE process.
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Interview: Space Force Association DC Chapter VP Marketing - Josh Martin An interview with Space Force Association DC Chapter VP, Josh Martin.
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Everything you need to know about PPBS Everything that you need know know about the Planning Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) and how you can update it
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Transformational Decision-Making: Where Data, Decision Science, and Technology Meet Strategic financial decision-making, described in the National Defense Strategy, is one of the most important tasks for ...
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How To Hire The Best Candidate Without Bias How do you efficiently and effectively find the “best” candidate for the role your organization is searching for, while ...
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The Art and Science of Agile Roadmap Planning Most software Product Owners would agree that planning for the work that the Agile development teams will undertake is a...
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Leverage Your Most Critical Resource....People! When you think about "resources," what comes to mind? Operational budgets? Discretionary funds? What if I told you PEOPL...
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Is Continuous Planning A Smarter Move For Your Organization? Continuous planning provides an approach that maintains a continually updated plan, keeping you much more agile and avoi...
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Gut Check: It’s 2020, How Does Your Organization Defend Their Decision Making Without Data Driven Algorithms? Frustrated and not making any headway towards a decision? Maybe it's time you looked at your portfolio planning process....
Customer Service Week Employee Recognition: Brent Peaden As we continue to celebrate NCSW, find out what it takes to be successful in a customer-facing career and the importance...
Customer Service Week Employee Recognition: Sandra Murillo Continuing to celebrate National Customer Service Week, hear how our customer support team's overall success is the culm...
Customer Service Week Employee Recognition: Marco Trigueros This week is an opportunity to celebrate the importance of customer service as well as the people who support our custom...
Do You Know What Your Project Portfolio Is Really Trying To Tell You? How do you know what your Project Portfolio is trying to tell you? It's not easy to understand your options, navigate th...
6 Benefits of Online Learning Online learning provides access to education regardless of the topic or your location. If you're curious about what some...
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When you have more information than resources: a QA with U.S. Air Force Academy Leader For USAF Col. Shawn Campbell, decision-making in our day is about cleaving to critical information and matching resource...
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6 Steps for Effective Decision-Making Making decisions is the most important thing people and organizations will do. Many decisions are small and often trivia...
Give Your Planning Process Direction With These Criteria-Setting Best Practices Try some of these best Practices for Establishing Your Criteria
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How To Establish Performance Measures Under the FAST Act Requirements MAP-21 and Fast Act were devised to make the Federal surface transportation more streamlined. Most organizations are str...
The Modern Rules of Capital Planning in Public Works and Utilities Capital planning tends to rely on very manual processes involving complex spreadsheets with data from disconnected sourc...
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Effective Communication and Collaboration Critical for Strategy Execution Great ideas are meaningless if they translate into countless hours of creating detailed business and strategic plans wit...
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We Picked Apart the Pain Points in Public Water Capital Planning and Here's What We Found… Exercising water conservancy and complying with ever-changing water regulations is a persistent challenge for water mana...
Leverage Strategic Decision-Making in Facility and Infrastructure Planning for Improved Resource Allocation Learn how DHA was able to optimize $30B across asset classes to maximize their performance of facility management invest...
Elevate Your Facilities Planning Process Facilities Planning decisions are more complex than ever. The long-term implications that come with costly facility capi...
Want to be Amazing at Facility Resource Planning? Here's How! Making agile, smart decisions with an analytic process drives the performance of your investments. Reducing facility cos...
Transforming Organizations Through Effective Strategy Execution Evolve past making strategic prioritization decisions using only spreadsheets and meetings. Invest in a new solution foc...
Know-It-All's, Whiners and 800 Pound Gorillas in the Planning Process This popular video from our CTO and master facilitator, Dan Saaty, will show you how to manage the Know-It-All's, Whiner...
Evaluating Risk & Reward in Innovation Project Selection See how specific analytics and insights can empower you to consistently prioritize the highest value, optimal risk proje...
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Start Your Strategy Execution Engine Strategy Execution is a top down process. Understand the 3 main steps in driving strategy execution.
You Do Strategy. I’ll Do Execution. Most organizations struggle with developing a strategy process and decision architecture that enables them to strategica...
Collaborative Governance Can Be Your Friend Find out what an effective governance process looks like using Strategy Execution. What are the outputs? How can it help...
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A Spring Gift for You! The Decision Lens Spring 2016 Release is Live. A Spring Gift for You! The Decision Lens Spring 2016 Release is Live.
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Product Release: A New Set of Features for the Summer Product Release: A New Set of Features for the Summer
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Product Release: The Spring 2015 Release of Decision Lens Will Shake You to the Core! Product Release: The Spring 2015 Release of Decision Lens Will Shake You to the Core!
Product Release: Woo-hoooo! The Fall 2014 Release Landed Today! Product Release: Woo-hoooo! The Fall 2014 Release Landed Today!
We’re Proud to Announce the (Soft) Launch of Decision Lens University! We’re Proud to Announce the (Soft) Launch of Decision Lens University!
Product Release: The Summer 2014 Release Brings The Most Powerful Prioritization You’ve Ever Seen Product Release: The Summer 2014 Release Brings The Most Powerful Prioritization You’ve Ever Seen
An Enhancement to the Fall 2013 Release of Decision Lens An Enhancement to the Fall 2013 Release of Decision Lens
