‘A structured approach to the delivery of, financial, operational and cost analysis in order to deliver strategic options that support rapid decision making and effective contracting’

Introduction

McCarten Flower understands that effective long term decision making should be predicated on robust and quantifiable options analysis.  It is only through this approach that long term operational and commercial success can be achieved.  This approach is commensurate with both programme and operational effectiveness seeking as it does to understand the implications of investment decisions as well as guaranteeing effective delivery of to the end user.

Approach

McCarten Flower’s approach is to deliver a robust business case either as part of a project team through a structured programme of works or as a bespoke product.  McCarten Flower will interpret customer requirements to reduce risk and produce relevant strategies that will enable our clients to:

1. Create the environment for effective competition or delivery.
2. Rapidly decide on an option which is underpinned by clear and coherent commercial, financial and operational analysis with concise recommendations for exploitation.
3. Identify operational & commercial risk.
4. Identify Key user requirements
5. Identify exit strategies
6. Highlight and expand on significant areas of potential conflict (Change, TU, TUPE, HR).
7. Our techniques are underpinned by configuration management and the latest business and quality management techniques such as Six Sigma and Lean Processing.

Our Offering

McCarten Flower has demonstrable capability in delivering a comprehensive business case.
Our offering includes:

1. Stakeholder Engagement planning.
2. Investment Appraisal
1. Cost modelling
2. Risk modelling
3. Operational Modelling
4. 3 Point estimates
3. Options Definition & Analysis
4. Market Analysis
5. Bid & Tender definition – to create the appropriate environment for effective competition.
6. Commercial Landscape definition – to map current commercial contracts against programme planning in order to assess impact on change (innovation, run out, etc, etc).
7. Appropriate Commercial frameworks – such as Contracting for Availability (CfA) or Contracting for Logistic Support (CLS).
8. Commercial dialogue – to engage with industry across a competition or programme life cycle.
9. Change Management - including current state assessment and future change mapping. To gauge impact against each option.
10. Exit Strategies – to preserve commercial and operational integrity.

Adding Value

Sound decision making is key to effective contracting.  This is no more demonstrable than in capital Defence programmes where significant costs are committed early in the project cycle.  It is at this early stage of project life that business intelligence can make a real difference.

At McCarten Flower we rise to the challenge of developing effective strategies through:

1. Identify the cost drivers associated with strategic decision making.
2. Deliver comprehensive options analysis that reduce the risk of failure and set the right conditions for effective competition.
3. Operate within UK and International policies and procedures.
4. Protect current operations through pragmatic exit strategies.

By rising to these challenges we not only deliver a pragmatic business case for change but facilitate a rapid route to market.

Delivering Supportability Engineering

Working as part of a team McCarten Flower’s approach is to work with our clients to set the high order requirements that will form the base line for options generation.  In order to reduce risk and identify practical and effective options our delivery model adopts the following stages:

1. Interpretation of the Requirement.
2. Stakeholder Management Plan
3. Options Generation.
4. Investment & Operational Appraisal.
5. Options Analysis.
6. Options Reduction Exercise
7. Assurance & Governance
8. Recommendation & Stakeholder Sign Off

Interpretation of the Requirement

Understanding the customer’s requirements is fundamental to establishing effective options for decision making.  Early in the project life cycle McCarten Flower combines stakeholder management and requirements setting to deliver a pragmatic number of decision options.

Delivering the business options

Having correctly identified the requirement and defined a set of viable options, McCarten Flower can deliver a robust and quantifiable investment and operational appraisal through the application of intelligent modelling and simulation techniques.  Our experience of undertaking business analysis for a number of capital programmes allows us to rapidly define a reduced number of viable options that offer the best advantage to our clients.

Assurance, Governance & Recommendations

The whole point of business case development is to support the client with demonstrable and measurable business options.  McCarten Flower prides itself in delivering concise recommendations that have been the subject of internal and external validation.

Summary

McCarten Flower has a proven track record of delivering business cases for high profile projects.  We have consistently delivered innovative business options that have resulted in well structured programme teams and effective competition.  In turn this has led to optimised operational delivery and sustainable business growth.   In summary we deliver:

1. Highly experienced and trained business analysts that understand the market and the wide stakeholder groups that exist within. 
2. A rapid build up of decision options and cost effective solutions.
3. An environment for effective competition.

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