Setting clear and realistic goals and plans

Our experience in decision analysis and mathematical modelling brings independence and rigour for clients who need help in reviewing their decision-making processes.  Our decision support toolset and implementation experience supports these clients to visualize and explore future commercial and financial implications of product, project or planning decisions.

Often, we see that the barrier to better decisions is not the people or process aspects – it is the availability of relevant information. Tessella are world leaders in the design and delivery of software environments that make best use of past (sometimes incomplete) information in the planning of future developments and potential responses to threats.   Our experience ranges from design and support of Adaptive Clinical Trials, through to threat analysis from radar information.

Through our services in portfolio management (Portmanto), technology road mapping and choices under uncertainty, we can help R&D-based clients to work out programme and project plans that maximize future value, taking proper account of identified risks; plans that:

• Are more resilient to a range of different futures
• Make best use of new supporting technologies
• Use pre-existing information in an unbiased way
• Can be delivered on time with the future mix of internal and external resources.

For example, we can help them create decision criteria and scoring rules that correctly reflect future expectations of cost and value and are well understood by the decision-making groups.  This is particularly challenging across the boundaries between research and development, for example in pharmaceutical project and candidate selection.