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Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) is the Federal Government's primary process for making investment decisions, assessing investment process effectiveness, and refining investment related policies and procedures in IT selection as mandated by the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.

The CPIC approach calls for agencies to establish a portfolio planning process that:

• Optimizes investment decisions
• Minimizes risks
• Ensures investments align with agency missions

Key to this portfolio planning methodology is the prioritization of potential investments. Expert Choice's software and methodology have been identified as a best practice by many Federal agencies for the prioritization and selection of investments.

Join Expert Choice for this recorded webinar and learn how to:

• Minimize mistakes; focus on mission benefits; create a defendable process
• Evaluate and prioritize the objectives of your department using a transparent process
• Collaborate among career executives, political appointees, and subject matter experts across agencies and geographies
• Make justifiable, auditable decisions quickly and move on to execution with confidence

Guest Speaker: John Roerty - Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton for a FREE webinar on Analysis of Alternatives.

Required in some organizations, beneficial to all, the Analysis of Alternatives is a beneficial process for any group to ensure that multiple options have been systematically reviewed prior to making costly investment decisions. By comparing among reasonable, actionable alternatives, based on well defined objectives, end selections are greatly improved. And with just a little experience, you will find the cost of making a selection and the time to implementation both decline.

Key topics include:
• Identifying and involving appropriate stakeholders
• Properly defining and socializing objectives (criteria)
• Prioritizing among all-inclusive yet unique capabilities
• Rating capabilities
• Wrapping up and confirming results

In addition to making better decisions, following the methodology discussed in this webinar, the tradeoffs and justification of a decision becomes more apparent, driving alignment and buy-in of the final selection.

Speaker: Dr. Ernest Forman

Struggling to understand risk in your project or financial portfolio? We can help. We will show you how a methodology used to help prioritize National Security risk can be translated to your organization's challenges.

Please join us for Risk Management: Understanding Choices. Joining us is Dr. Ernest Forman, D.Sc., Founder and Chairman of Expert Choice. In this session, we will focus on solutions to estimating probabilities and risks.

Topics we will cover include:

• Understanding uncertainty and risk
• Utilizing intuition and expertise
• Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data

In selecting system requirements, the key challenge is maximizing resources (time, staff, and money). In this recorded webinar learn how to:

• Make justifiable selections with organizational buy-in so you can move on to execution with confidence 
• Evaluate and prioritize criteria using a robust, transparent methodology 
• Collaborate within and across departments in the same meeting room or around the world 
• Minimize mistakes; focus on mission benefits; create a defendable process

System Requirement Selection is a vital part of building an organization's infrastructure. To maximize the use of limited resources, leaders must identify key system functions that best align with and support the organization's mission. Separating the must haves and real needs from the nice to haves or pet projects is both complex and politically challenging. Expert Choice can help.

The CPIC approach calls for agencies to establish a portfolio planning process that:

• Optimizes investment decisions
• Minimizes risks
• Ensures investments align with agency missions

Key to this portfolio planning methodology is the prioritization of potential investments. Expert Choice has been identified as a best practice by many Federal agencies for the prioritization and selection of investments.

View Expert Choice's webinar on Capital Planning and Investment Control. Learn how to:

• Minimize mistakes; focus on mission benefits; create a defendable process
• Evaluate and prioritize the objectives of your department using a transparent process
• Collaborate among career executives, political appointees, and subject matter experts across agencies and geographies
• Make justifiable, auditable decisions quickly and move on to execution with confidence

Explore our newest web-based software product, TeamTime. TeamTime facilitates real-time, focused collaboration & decision-making resulting in actionable outcomes. Learn how to efficiently brings together people from around the globe, across the country, or in your home office.

Tough Times - Tough Decisions. By now indications are that 2009 will demand more from decision makers. Economic conditions are deteriorating, and the importance of the decisions made today will reverberate throughout the economic downturn.  If you are reconsidering your resource allocations, we have 3 webinars to help you think about addressing these challenges: People • Budgets • Projects.