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Description:
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Prioritisation at the higher programme and portfolio level, balancing investment and disinvestment choices across a range of programmes and projects in order to optimise the value of the whole portfolio subject to a range of constraints (financial, workforce, deliverability etc).
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Delivered in time to support annual planning processes such as Annual Budget Cycle, or more strategic rebalancing including Strategic Defence Reviews, Comprehensive Spending Review settlements etc.
Outputs:
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Balance of Investment analysis and disinvestment choices across a range of potentially diverse programmes and projects.
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Structured capture of investment and disinvestment choices across breadth of portfolio.
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Analysis of capability impact of choices to support organisations capability management processes, linkage to Head Office processes such as Defence Contract Audit Report (DCAR) and Credit Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF).
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Analysis of financial impact of choices to support financial management across multi-year budgets.
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Analysis of other resource impacts such as changes to workforce demand and supply across multi-year profiles.
Benefits:
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Will provide evidence to support portfolio level capability management and/or management of TLB.
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Ability to make cross-programme balance of investment decisions to optimise the value of the overall portfolio.
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Enhanced stakeholder engagement and buy-in to strategic plan.
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Greater understanding of the opportunity cost of investments and more explicit understanding of trade-offs.
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Improved ability to generate and maintain a pan-Defence Line of Development (DLoD) Capability Management Plan aligned with a wider TLB level plan.
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Enhanced evidence base to support engagement with Head Office and other stakeholders.
