Analytic Decisions

Helping decision makers solve complex, significant business problems by evaluating different options and scenarios and optimizing results within constraints

Executives regularly face many problems that are simply too difficult to make the best possible decision without employing an effective thinking process and leveraging analytical tools or technologies.   Such business problems may have multiple competing objectives or decision criteria as well as various alternatives that need to be considered.  Given the significance and potential impact on the organization, these decisions cannot be made lightly.  This is the basis for Fortegis Analytic Decisions, a tailored service to dramatically improve your individual or team decision-making effectiveness.

To use a strong decision-making process and optimize results, the challenges include: the identification, proper structuring and prioritization of all the organization’s objectives, constraints, decision criteria and alternatives; asking the right questions and objectively answering them to ensure breadth, depth and quality of the inputs; thorough quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the choices; and, an easy, effective means to conduct what-if or sensitivity analysis to fully understand implications and assess trade-offs before making a final decision.   We address these challenges by using the most appropriate set of advanced business tools, analytical methodologies, and decision support technologies to ensure you make logical, informed decisions that can be easily understood and supported within your organization.

Common Applications*:

• Strategic Planning
• Balanced Scorecard
• Integrated Performance Management
• Financial, Personnel or IT Portfolio Optimization
• New Product/Market Entry Analysis & Prioritization
• Resource or Asset Allocation
• M&A Analysis
• Outsource Assessment
• Enterprise Risk Mitigation
• Product/Vendor Evaluation & Selection
• Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

* Fortegis Analytic Decisions can be effectively applied to achieving virtually any type of business goal.

Key Benefits:

• Objectively make decisions in the best interest of the enterprise, effectively addressing biases, conflicts and other impediments to sound decisions
• Recognize dependencies and causal relationships among numerous factors that impact your goal
• Prioritize options and optimize results within constraints—time, funding, resources, etc.
• Identify and quantify trade-off’s, opportunity costs, risks, and other implications of your decisions
• Utilize strong sensitivity analysis with dynamic integrated graphs—see what effect changing one variable or choice has on everything else
• Quickly and easily convey analysis and results
• Improve justification and internal consensus through our visual, interactive tool enabling individual and group input as well as collaborative analysis

"The most effective, rational way for business leaders to make great, very confident decisions."

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