Decision Lens develops integrated planning software which modernizes how government prioritizes, plans, and funds since 2005. Built on decision science, agencies better meet their objectives through integrated long-range planning, continuous medium-range prioritization, and agile short-range funding execution.

USDA APHIS

ARM - Prioritization of enhancement requests for APHIS/ARM internal systems.

HLB MAC - Prioritization use case regarding grants management.

Import Targeting- Prioritization use case targeting designated imports for advanced inspection.

Leadership Development Cohorts - Prioritizing students to vet for acceptance into USDA's Leadership Program.

MRP Salary/Benefits - MRP uses Decision Lens to enter, validate, track and report salary data regarding their FTE’s. This data includes salary by pay period, positional vacancies the need to be filled, retirements, and grade for 12 different sub orgs.

NADPRP - Research proposal prioritization use case; part of PPA 7721

Port Risk Prioritization - Prioritization of marine ports that receives and process veterinarian materials.

PPQ PPA 7721 - Selection use case where 7 separate goal teams use pre-established criteria to screen project proposals submitted from research institutions across the country.

PPQ Vacancy Prioritization - This use case prioritizes job vacancies within PPQ.

USDA ARS

Annual Prioritization - This use case is their annual prioritization to generate a 1-N list of ~650 agriculture research projects.

USDA FS

Candidate Section - This is an annual use case that anonymizes candidates and enables FS hiring employees to vote on new candidates.

IT Spend Plan - Management of 460+ projects against a $467 million budget

Prioritization – Annual NFS IT prioritization of ~120 projects

NFS IT Investments Prioritization - Annual prioritization of the NFS IT investments.

USDA RD

PMO IT Projects Prioritization - Semi-annual prioritization of IT projects in RD's portfolio. Projects pertain to rural development and are candidates for funding with available resources.

Risk Refresh - Annual prioritization of RD's top risks. Office of the Chief Risk Officer for RD leverages prioritization to evaluate top risks against RD's priorities.

Honor Awards - Annual prioritization of RD wide awards nominees.

Training Opportunities

Below is an outline of online courses on learn.decisionlens.com equipped with short videos and quizzes to learn Decision Lens at your own pace.

• Decision Lens Product Education Course: https://learn.decisionlens.com/decision-lens-product-education 
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• Decision Lens Collaborative Prioritization: https://learn.decisionlens.com/decision-lens-product-education-1 
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• • Data Intake/Validation (from 1pm EST - 3pm EST)
    • This training will focus on features in our Decision Lens Accelerate continuous planning software. Learn how to automate data intake into our system, validate the data is correct, learn to control access in this single repository, and enable a more continuous planning process!
  • What-If Planning/Execution (from 1pm EST - 3pm EST) 
    • "Data Intake & Validation" is a pre-requisite to this course
      • This training will focus on features in our Decision Lens Accelerate continuous planning software. Learn to analyze scenarios, create excursions and decipher implications and tradeoffs of decisions.

New to Decision Lens?

Demonstrations & Support 

If you or your organization is new to Decision Lens, and wish to leverage Decision Lens to support your organization, follow these steps to get started:

1. Request a short demonstration of Decision Lens. Call Laura Seng, your Decision Lens Account Manager, at 484-553-8841 or email lseng@decisionlens.com.

2. Post-demonstration, Decision Lens provides a Success Planning Workshop with your organization's key stakeholders. Decision Lens team members will meet with USDA leads and core team members to review the details of a prospective USDA process for which Decision Lens may be implemented. The purpose of these discussions will be to help the Decision Lens team generate a recommendation regarding the level of support needed to ensure success for the USDA user groups (see packages below). These meetings will also help USDA personnel understand the Decision Lens implementation and support approach.

3. Support packages (implementation and support)

USDA has purchased implementation and support packages to accompany the Decision Lens License. Customer Success Managers are standing by to assist the USDA for any decision. Typical support includes model development, best practices for rating scales, data import, facilitation support, allocation scenario development, advanced analytics and visualization and custom training. 

Decision Lens can also provide a custom learning program for your organization based on your specific goals/requirements.  Contact your USDA Decision Lens Account Manager to get started.

Already Familiar with Decision Lens?

Training Opportunities

Register for our upcoming LIVE virtual product training courses: https://www.decisionlens.com/dlu-training-registration 

Use our online on-demand learning resources: https://learn.decisionlens.com/ 

Contact university@decisionlens.com to learn more.