Risk Management

Risk Balanced Resource Allocation: A program office needed a decision aid to determine where to invest, sustain, streamline, or divest its efforts in a specific homeland security space.

Starting with RPM to characterize and quantify risk across 50 key functions, we used GAP to assess the relevance, impact and priority of 90 efforts. The scored outcome was provided in several actionable metrics, including relative scores for ‘Attention Given’ versus ‘Attention Warranted’ for each of their 90 efforts.

Armed with this knowledge, the program office reframed its programming plan to rebalance it towards underserviced risk, streamline overlaps, right-size investments, and eliminate unwarranted effort. More that 30 efforts were combined or altogether eliminated.

Based on TTI’s work, a Department of Defense combat support agency benefited from optimizing organizational strategies and programs to rigorously defined and measured risk and mitigation opportunities.

Now repeated annually, our methodologies allows the agency to address the realities of an evolving, complex operational environment with appropriate alignment to risk, thus illuminating opportunities to outpace threats posed by adversaries. Through our risk management methods, underserviced risks were characterized, prioritized, and paired with actionable mitigation objectives, each measured for impact.

These metrics allow very focused elimination or mitigation of risk and a way to measure progress over time. Our findings fundamentally re-oriented the agency‘s strategy and programs impactfully support National Security, National Defense, and National Military Strategies.

During COVID 19, we worked with a major government agency to proactively communicate and plan a response with key leadership.

Our swift action resulted in quickly informing staff of threats, solutions, and courses of action that ensured their safety and minimal disruption to the COOP mission.