Program Excellence and Visibility

Implementing Program Excellence and Visibility Solutions
As a result of customer pressure to more closely track programs, Aerospace and Defense (A&D) organizations have an increasing need to more quickly and accurately track program status, enable timely decision making, reduce manual reporting efforts, and ensure common program analysis procedures and metrics. Many A&D companies struggle with the ability to meet this need based on a variety of process- and infrastructure-related issues, including data housed in disparate applications.

Key challenges faced by A&D leadership, including program managers, when trying to understand, analyze and report on the real-time status of a program include:

Increasing customer program reporting requests causing increased program management costs
The inability of program managers to deliver timely information to executives and customers resulting in potential program overruns and low customer satisfaction ratings
Lack of a standard program visibility environment due to:
- Siloed business systems and processes
- Disparate reporting environments and toolsets
- Lack of a standardized BI/enterprise reporting infrastructure
- Lack of data management policies and procedures
- Diverging metrics definitions for the same measurement within different programs

Inaccurately reported statuses
Unrepeatable processes
Lengthy manual processes, resulting in increased costs for maintenance and program tracking

In working with major A&D companies, Hitachi Consulting recognizes that program managers have common program data visibility needs and challenges. Based on this common issue faced by many program managers, Hitachi Consulting developed a new approach to disseminate necessary program information across A&D organizations. The team utilized significant Business Intelligence and Microsoft technology expertise to develop an approach to implementing program visibility solutions as well as a template program visibility solution designed to jumpstart dashboard and analytics projects.

This solution approach specifically focused on:

Addressing those information needs of the CEO, SBU, PMO leadership
Enabling program managers to quickly and easily gain visibility into key program metrics across and within programs
Building a robust, extensible and reusable BI Infrastructure to leverage for information needs in all areas of the business

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