Government

The government today is charged with expansive responsibilities at a time of urgent need. There are re-directed federal domestic priorities that must be attended to while budget-funding uncertainty and challenges to economic stability compete with real and ever-present threats of terrorist attacks for our attention.

As government leaders and leaders of public-sector organizations grapple with balancing expanded missions with finite resources, they understand that a major shift in organizational mindset is necessary in order to meet the needs of the American people.

Congress and the administration have mandated that Federal agencies adopt a business management approach that effectively manages costs and improves performance and results in both improved productivity and a lowered total cost of ownership for citizens.

New ways of thinking about government processes, strategies, resources, and ways of instituting cultural change can assist the government to become more agile and responsive as it learns to accomplish more with less and fulfill government’s expanded mission while accelerating its rate of change as it undertakes continuous improvement leading to measurable and sustainable governance improvements over time.

Thomas Group’s Approach

Our government practice provides clients with business management consulting informed by deep strategic expertise in much needed areas of operation. We have extensive experience and success assisting government groups in process improvement initiatives:

  • Defining performance parameters and implementing them through application of relevant business cases
  • Aligning people, processes, and technology with strategy and vision to achieve government transformation and breakthrough performance results
  • Reduce risks in major government enterprise solution implementations

Our proven and proprietary Process Value Management™ (PVM) methodology has enabled us to achieve impressive performance enhancements for our current government clients; we can do the same for your organization. Thomas Group government solutions include:

What is PVM?

PVM is a proven, proprietary Thomas Group methodology that enables us to deliver the promise of breakthrough process performance to our clients. PVM precisely identifies, prioritizes, and quantifies the value associated with specific business improvement opportunities. PVM helps Thomas Group develop solutions that maximize value throughout the value chain and that lead to lasting performance improvement. Thus, PVM optimizes each step in the business process, builds competitive advantage by utilizing key tools (CPI Maturity Model, Hoshin Kanri, Kaizen, Lean, Metrics, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Total Cycle Time®) and linking them to other steps in the process through a series of hierarchical leading indicators.

Using PVM, Thomas Group applies its leading-edge experience, powerful technology tools and valuable expertise to deliver real value to:

  • Government organizations, enabling them to be more effective and efficient in fulfilling their missions
  • Government leaders, more clearly defining issues of governance, empowering them to become more effective leaders
  • Government employees, uniting them under a common vision, empowering them, and training them on best-practice problem-solving techniques in a barrier-free, can-do culture
  • Citizens, enabling them to receive enhanced returns on their tax-dollars  

Contacts

 

Tom Zych
Practice Leader, Government
972.443.1141

Tom Pick
Practice Leader, Government
202.617.5062

Mike Dungan 
Principal
972.443.1124

Harrison Goldman 
Practice Leader
972.401.4284

Dan Hampton 
Principal
972.401.4257

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