Decision Analysis Services

A management and technical consultancy operating principally in the defence sector for government and industry. The company provides high value support to clients engaged in the procurement of defence equipment, facilities and services, together with working for a number of major blue-chip commercial companies.

Other Services

At DAS we strive to provide support to our clients in order to meet their specific requirements, bringing value-add through the deployment of our staff and carefully selected associate consultants.

Detail of the additional services offered by the company are summarised below;

• Strategy Consulting & Business Modelling - DAS staff experience and client engagements have included strategy consulting for major global firms in the areas of pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, as well as its core defence industry focus.
  
  Working with partner organisations, DAS staff have developed complex business simulation tools to support multi-billion investment decisions. These have been based on our recognised expertise in System Dynamics modelling techniques coupled with data mining and synthesis of corporate management information, as well as primary and syndicated market research.

• Total Cost Capability – DAS has a high-level cost capability that can be utilised for concept and whole-life cost studies. Our experience and core skills include; investment appraisals, project concept costing, balance of investment studies, development of be-spoke cost models, operational cost modelling and cost of ownership.
  
  
• Business Strategy Gaming – DAS staff have experience in the practical application of gaming techniques to strategy planning and options analysis. Our support can enable clients in undertaking an independent evaluation of its major policy decisions, future direction and business or management plan.

Such experience has included political-military gaming of a number of alternative threat scenarios for a major development, ensuring that potential threats were correctly evaluated, and that preventative or contingency measures were put in place

• Independent Experts & Specialist Manpower – In addition to our core staff and capabilities, we are also able to provide clients with access to a range of staff with a wide array of skills and experience, at short notice, through our Associate Consultants.
  
  We maintain a database that contains details of a wide variety of experts, including retired senior civil servants, former military officers and highly experienced industrialists. This provides ready access to a comprehensive range of engineering, technical and management skills.
  
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• Safety Management – DAS can provide you with ready access to a full range of safety services, including the development of Safety Cases, establishing Safety Management Systems (SMS) and supplying safety managers and safety teams for major projects. We can also provide external audits for clients who already have established in-house safety management capabilities.
  
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• Business Continuity Management – DAS are able to offer a Business Continuity Management consulting programme that is based upon a proven methodology that is wholly aligned with the principles of the new Business Continuity Standard: BS 25999 and delivers a series of benefits that maximise the organisation’s investment in this important discipline.
  
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