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ACE: Accelerating Competitive Effectiveness Tool
Software to support strategic project assessment.
Project team members complete survey questions measuring the
extent to which critical elements of emerging competitive
advantage are falling into place. To the extent that
business understanding, team effectiveness, emerging
competence, distinctiveness, market acceptance, political
acceptance and insulation from competition are at low
levels, a project's progress will be hampered. This
tool allows the identification of issues and provides
the factual basis for early intervention. Teams can
use the results to self-monitor their progress.
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BareBones Cost/Benefit Valuation Tool
A simple tool for calculating the Net Present Value of a
project from cost/benefit profiles, using continuous
(rather than conventional discrete) cash flows and
range estimates (rather than traditional
point-estimates) for benefit and cost drivers.
Specify your project life-cycle, with times and cash-flows,
such as ramp-up costs, steady-state benefits, and benefit
erosion as they become obsolete over time. Input
expected distributions (ranges) for these variables.
This releases your project evaluation from traditional,
unrealistic point estimates. The program maps out a
cash flow timing profile that permits you to then
calculate the Net Present Value for the project using
continuous, instead of conventional discrete, cash
flows. View the standard deviation of NPV, and plot
the cumulative probability of attaining a given NPV,
in an easily readable chart.
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BareBones Real Options Valuation Tool
For more advanced cost/benefit calculations.
The BareBones Real Options tool provides users with a fast,
straightforward method of calculating the net present
value and real option value of a project. The software
builds these estimates using a method based on yearly
business milestones, along with revenue and cost
assumptions. The user-defined assumptions are then
entered into a mathematical distribution that outputs
the NPV and Real Options values.
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New Venture Profiling Tool
Easily profile the revenues and costs for the first
years of your new company or internal initiative.
Specify your costs, revenues, and other assumptions for
each period. Run multi-period simulations. Automatically build
estimated income statements, and plot graphical confidence
intervals for revenues and costs for successive periods.
View your profit profile over time, and your Net Present
Value. The New Venture Profiling Tool is an advanced
version of our popular Monte Carlo simulation tool: it adds
built-in support for multiple cash flow periods,
and adds longitudinal revenue / cost / profit profiling charts.
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DDP Tool
Discovery Driven Planning: A way to plan uncertain projects
or investments, folding back from desired returns to
required deliverables.
A software implementation of the popular Discovery Driven
Planning methodology, as published in Harvard Business
Review. Specify the return you want on your new project
commensurate with the risk. Input ranges for your
assumptions. Fold back to determine required values you
need to achieve for key deliverables, in order to meet
your targets. Map your assumptions to checkpoints:
milestones when those assumptions will be tested and
revised. Compare multiple projects side-by-side, and
choose the best way to turn limited resources into
profits. Avoid costly failures: discover problems early
and cheaply, learn through checkpoints, abandon bedeviled
projects, and win big on your successes.
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EVS Software for Opportunity Valuation
The Engineered Value Solution (EVS) Project Valuation
Tool produces NPV and Real Options valuations for complex
integrated business ventures.
Assess the value of your project opportunities in uncertain
business environments, using real options valuation.
Estimate likely ranges for revenues and expenses.
Define checkpoints expenses and asset realizations.
Create option chains. See how early-stage learning and
decision events increase opportunity value. Gauge the
optimal development path for a project.
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Hotspot Mapping Tool
Plot the hotspot locations in your business with this basic
geographic information system extension for Microsoft Excel*
Import your own data, such as product sales, complaint
volumes, or competitor locations into Excel. Append
latitude and longitude information. Automatically
aggregate data by geographic blocks. Color-code areas
that exceed a threshold score for any business metric
you choose. For example, highlight in red regions with
low total sales, high complaints, or high competitor
penetration. Quickly get a view of hotspot regions in
your business. Acquire the ability to identify and
manage problem areas faster and better.
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Innovation Opportunities Mapping Tool
Plot your options in a readable matrix which allows you to
quickly choose a desirable opportunity mix.
The purpose of this tool is to provide project and portfolio
managers with an easy-to-understand map of projects that
are being considered or are currently underway, in the
context of the major uncertainties facing those projects.
The purpose of the tool is to ensure alignment between
strategic goals, resource allocations, project approval
practices and people management practices. By mapping
projects visually, it becomes immediately clear whether
appropriate investments are being made and whether
sufficient attention is being given to both today's core
business and tomorrow's future opportunities. The
portfolio approach also helps to improve the management
of disappointment, by placing individual projects in the
context of the overall opportunity mix being pursued by a firm.
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IT-DDP: an Excel Tool for Software Project Valuation
Use the IT-DDP tool for valuation of information technology
projects using Return on Time Invested (ROTI).
Faced with multiple information technology project
opportunities, your goal is to narrow down to a handful
of options worthy of more detailed analysis. Projects
that survive the IT-DDP filtering process earn the right
to further investigation (e.g. detailed Net Present Value
analysis, detailed risk assessment, detailed staffing
analysis, etc.)
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Monte Carlo Simulation Add-In for Microsoft Excel*
A simple, easy-to-use tool for assessing likely profits given
your assumptions for input variable ranges.
Run business simulations with the Monte Carlo Simulation
Add-In. Set triangular, normal, and uniform distributions
on your business parameters. Run limited-iteration or
limited-time simulations. Analyze upper and lower bounds,
volatility, and distributions for expected profit or other
output variables, with automatically generated summary
stats, staircase charts, and histograms.
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DDP Simulation Add-In for Microsoft Excel*
A simple, easy-to-use tool for assessing likely profits given
your assumptions for input variable ranges.
Run business simulations with the DDP Simulation
Add-In. Set triangular, normal, and uniform distributions
on your business parameters. Run limited-iteration or
limited-time simulations. Analyze upper and lower bounds,
volatility, and distributions for expected profit or other
output variables, with automatically generated summary
stats, staircase charts, and histograms.
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Patent Analysis Tool
A tool for assessing the outward- or inward-focus of
innovations in a company or business unit.
Input a company name. The tool will retrieve all patents for
the specified company. Indicate which patents were
developed by which business unit. Then perform a patent
analysis: the tool automatically determines percentage
self-citations and external-citations for each
organizational unit - an indicator of inward- or
outward-focused innovation.
*Microsoft and Excel are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Monte Carlo Simulation Tool Excel Add in
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