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Enterprise of the Future Solutions

A key element of competing in a flat world is the ability to quickly make the right decisions. When critical decisions need to be made, information alone is not enough. You need to correctly interpret the information, determine the right course of action, and clearly communicate instructions. These additional steps require human expertise, which is missing from most information systems.

By capturing and modeling critical decision-making knowledge, we help you perform more timely, accurate, and consistent decision-making. Each of the tools listed below is built from one or more commercial off-the-shelf products, designed specifically with this human expertise dimension in mind:

Crisis Planning and Response

WatchDeskXLerator^TM

In today’s world, timely and correct response to events is critical. The AKS WatchDeskXLerator^TM:

Monitors incidents as they are reported
Guides the decision maker through a rapid, yet structured assessment process
Formulates a course of action, based on previous planning and experience
Communicates clear instructions, to ensure smooth response coordination and execution.

AKVulnerability Assessment Tool^TM

Many complex factors go into crisis response planning. Is your facility/organization ready? The AKVulnerability Assessment Tool^TM combines the very best available medical and engineering knowledge in order to:

Minimize risk and vulnerability
Take preventative measures
Respond effectively by taking the right sequence of steps, as a crisis begins to unfold.

Personnel Security

ClearanceXLerator^TM

Although published guidelines exist, clearance investigations and adjudications are rarely performed in a timely and consistent manner. The AKS ClearanceXLerator^TM streamlines the personnel clearance process by:

Applying policy guidelines uniformly across all cases
Flagging areas of concern
Guiding the adjudicative process
Generating a complete electronic case file, including investigative and adjudicative reports.

AccessXLerator^TM

Managing physical and logical access has become a nightmare. AccessXLerator^TM removes bottlenecks and reduces delays, while maintaining the highest levels of assurance, by:

Ensuring accesses match clearance levels, and “need-to-know”
Consistently applying and enforcing access policies and procedures
Making policy changes available to all sites in real time.

Compliance Management and Governance

AKCompliance^TM

Fines, and even jail sentences, for non-compliance with government regulations are increasing at an alarming rate. AKCompliance^TM helps you:

Keep track of the overwhelming complexity of regulations affecting your organization
Identify potential areas of non-compliance, while recommending corrective measures
Generate reports at the proper time, in the proper format, while maintaining a secure, electronic record.

Government Streamlining and Business Transformation – The AKProductivity Suite^TM

Whether your enterprise is government, non-profit, or commercial, boosting the productivity of your knowledge workers is a must. These tools focus on the three biggest productivity drains of any knowledge-based organization: Too much time wasted looking for information Slow and/or poor decisions Report writing and other paperwork.
AKSearch^TM	AKSearch^TM reduces the time wasted looking for information by: Applying human expertise to the search process, which means less “trial and error” Formulating content-rich, situation-dependent queries, which reduces the number of irrelevant documents returned.
DecisionXLerator^TM	Having found the information, the correct course of action needs to be formulated. DecisionXLerator^TM captures the best practices of your top decision makers, and makes them available wherever and whenever they are needed. Novices benefit from an improved learning curve, experts become even better by refining what they know.
ReportXLerator^TM	Having determined the proper course of action, timely execution is essential. ReportXLerator^TM generates clear instructions for carrying out a decision, and documents the basis for the decision, in about half the time.

Some specific examples of the application of the AKProductivity Suite^TM to government streamlining and business transformation include:

Improper Payments Detection and Prevention

AKAuditor^TM

In the world of financial auditing, much of the emphasis is on fraud. But losses from improper payments are often many times greater. AKAuditor^TM combines data mining with the best available human expertise to reduce both fraud and improper payments, before they occur.

Asset and Portfolio Management

AKManager^TM

Proper balancing and deployment of critical assets is essential to successful portfolio management. For organizations with large groups of portfolio managers, a few top performers often outperform the rest of the organization. By making the best practices of the top performers available to everyone, the overall performance of the entire organization dramatically increases.

And finally, our most popular tool – with a 100% rate of success!

Strategic Planning and Alignment

AKStrategist^TM

One of the leading causes of low, or even negative return-on-investment, is the misalignment of projects and initiatives with the overall strategy of the organization. AKStrategist^TM creates a clear link across the mission, strategy, performance drivers, core capabilities, and key processes of your organization. Once this link is clearly defined, then, and only then, are technologies considered. By directly linking technologies, processes, and capabilities, with the organization’s strategy and performance goals, investment risk is greatly reduced. Scarce resources are directed only in areas having the greatest potential for improvement.

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