Services

Phase One Consulting Group assists industry and federal government decision-makers by addressing priorities and achieving measurable results.  Phase One is skilled at helping formulate strategies that become actionable and successful.  Our expertise includes organizational transformation, communications, process analysis, investment management, and performance metrics.  We offer Enterprise Architecture and CPIC services, with a focus on intelligently planning for, and affecting, change.

Phase One works with its clients to navigate strategic and tactical crossroads using actionable planning and management consulting techniques.  Phase One's expertise focuses on effecting change by building trusted relationships across business and architecture communities, building consensus, and providing technology and vendor independent advice. 

Phase One prides itself on offering top-tier teams that can address complex improvement challenges.  In fact, all Phase One consultants are broad thinkers and excellent communicators who define and facilitate significant improvements in an organization's operations. Phase One recruits the best and brightest throughout the country to build a staff skilled in strategic, performance, human capital, technology, and solutions planning.

The Phase One staff includes Harvard, MIT, and Wharton business school graduates as well as staff with extensive commercial consulting experience at firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, Accenture, and Bearing Point.  Phase One has several consultants who regularly lecture on Enterprise Architecture at local universities and institutes while other team members who provide federal training on the Methodology for Business Transformation through the Department of Interior.  Phase One's Business Transformation service offerings include the following core competencies:
 

Business and IT Strategy

Serve as strategic advisors skilled at establishing vision and goals, strategic planning, and maturing the organization.

Transformation and Integration Planning

Facilitate effective business and IT transformation by providing planning, change management, outreach, and stakeholder adoption support.

Provide expert Enterprise Architecture program guidance and methods to create world-class Enterprise Architecture programs that can plan, create, and execute effective segment and solution architectures. Provide Enterprise Architecture training ranging from an introduction to Enterprise Architecture through advanced principles classes associated with the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM).

Clients & Case Studies:
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Student Aid
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
U.S. Army
U.S. Department of Defense ' Business Transformation Agency
U.S. Department of Interior
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. MINT

Provide a planning methodology for the implementation of the new Open Government Directive in the Federal government, enabling a more transparent and collaborative interaction between the government and its citizens. Provide a unique, full life-cycle strategy development approach using the three principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration as the cornerstones to forming an open government and as a tool for the execution of agency mission and goals. POCG staff possess in-depth knowledge of the latest social media tools as well as Web 2.0 industry standards in helping Federal agencies comply with the requirements of the Directive.
 

Clients & Case Studies:
White House Initiatives (Data.gov, Federal Health Architecture)
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Forest Service

Solution Requirements and Lifecycle Management

Formulate solution requirements based on stakeholder input and help support and coordinate activities through the full solution lifecycle.

Clients & Case Studies:
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Student Aid
National Park Service - SOA
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Navy
Vista
Time Inc.
Time & Life
Bertelsman
Choice
Washington Gas
Verio

System Integration and Engineering

Design, pilot, evaluate, and implement solutions that align with solution requirements and follow best practice development integration methodologies.

Clients & Case Studies:
Time Inc.
Time & Life
Choice
Washington Gas
National Park Service - SOA
U.S. Forest Service

IT Portfolio Management

Provide expert Portfolio Management advice by helping clients manage IT investments throughout the investment lifecycle, ensuring a maximum return on each investment, eliminating redundant capabilities, and bridging the gap between the planning and execution phases.