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.

Risk Management

At DAS we strive to provide assurance to our clients as to the integrity of the information used to drive their business decisions. Integral with this assurance is ensuring that all risks, at both the corporate and project level, have been identified, assessed and the most appropriate risk mitigation measures put in place.

Effective risk management consists of enabling a business to optimise its performance by understanding the threats to success and through identifying opportunities for improvement. The application of risk based techniques will help to correctly manage exposure to risk, give increased stakeholder confidence, and maximise shareholder return.

The DAS capability of implementing effective risk management programmes extends from just delivering individual project risk assessments to include establishing robust risk management processes as an integral element of their business model.

The DAS risk management capability includes:

• Corporate Risk Management – the implementation of a structured and systematic approach for the assessment and control of risks in order to comply with national corporate governance requirements.
  
  
• Decision Support – the application of risk management techniques to facilitate decision making and to provide a structured audit trail for the presentation of recommendations to client stakeholders.
  
  
• Project Risk Management – the key to the successful delivery of any project is the pro-active management of risk and opportunity. The qualitative assessment of risk is supported by the application of quantitative schedule and cost risk analyses in order to better inform management decision making.

Track Record of Success

DAS personnel have successfully completed a variety of risk management based tasks for major clients. These have included:

• Risk management support to a number of major equipment procurement programmes for an overseas Ministry of Defence.
  
  
• An independent assessment for a defence manufacturer of the principal risks facing them in compiling their response to a UK requirement for a family of armoured vehicles.
  
  
• The conduct of a number of business and project risk assessments for a major manufacturer, including the development of a model for testing and evaluating the validity of business decisions.
  
  
• Development and implementation of a corporate risk management framework for all the business units of a multi-national commercial client, fully compliant with the best practice of the UK corporate governance guidelines.
  
  
• The provision of risk management and cost analysis support to defence manufacturers on a number of major warship, submarine and weapons programmes.