Having the ability to respond to both internal and external events are critical in business today. However, the level of insight available determines the quality of that response.

If you need five working days to gather data, it's too long, a different approach is required.

At VorausPlan we can provide you with true insight of your portfolio, provide you with multiple dimensions to support and enhance your decision making. Even with a poor quality dataset we can deliver tangible results, to begin the decision support process. You need more than an excel based dashboard of static data - we can provide it.

At the heart of the decision analytics is the ability to provide a strong, tangible link between strategy and projects. With this achieved there will be much greater buy-in to the resulting decisions taken.

It's important to state that we make no judgement on your strategy, after all you know your core business. Rather, we work with your strategy, as it is, to define the "Strategic Direction" providing a single holistic view which brings together the individual components that make up your strategy.

We then work with you to identify the core business drivers that articulate your business most accurately. To ensure completeness of the drivers we undertake a "Strategy-to-Driver Mapping" which can also assist you in re-assessing your strategy, if required. The "Driver Framework" is then established to fully articulate the

• core business drivers
• description guidance
• KPI description
• KPI range and
• banding

The KPIs provide the link between the corporate strategy and the project
initiatives. We'll work closely with you to define this important measure.

Doing this enables us to then gain a very different perspective of your portfolio, you will be surprised at the results and perhaps even amazed. With some smart analysis we can rank drivers thereby identifying the most and least important. Through the KPIs we are then able to align project initiatives to business drivers. With just a bit more analysis we can provide you with a prioritised portfolio which is connected to your strategy and not arbitrary weights or weak criteria. From this very strong position we can begin to provision advanced analytics in very short timescales.

We can provide the following insight on your portfolio performance in the following areas:

• Core business driver cost model
• Project dependency impact
• Cost constraint analysis
• Portfolio modelling / optimisation
• Scenario modelling
• Divergence of Opinion analysis
• Application of MPT (Modern Portfolio Theory)
• Sensitivity Analysis
• 'What-If' modelling
• Strategic value of your current portfolio