Government

Transforming Government Operations Today: Doing More with Less

Public sector leaders face a daunting set of challenges at a time when the velocity of external change is perhaps higher than ever. In today’s turbulent setting, organizations simply must deliver greater output with fewer resources.

In an environment with challenges like these:

Department/Agency missions and requirements are expanding and changing with greater velocity
New threats are emerging
Resources, especially budgets, are progressively more constrained or even slashed
Workforce demographics are changing due to in/outsourcing and retirement waves
The need for greater accountability and transparency continues to mount
Gaps between “as-is” and “needed” performance are growing

Leaders must manage their businesses to:

Adapt rapidly to changing missions, requirements, budgets and threats
Assure effectiveness…continue to satisfy their missions and their customers
Assure efficiency…reduce the cost of delivering their output
Improve responsiveness
Develop an internal ability to improve continuously
Maintain a high performance workforce today and in the future

Successful public sector leaders increasingly need to deliver bold transformational changes in the way their organizations operate and perform. And, they need successes delivered faster than ever.

Thomas Group’s Approach

For over 30 years Thomas Group has assisted large private sector organizations in many industries to plan and execute rapid and successful transformational change. Beginning in 1997, we brought these extensive private sector practices into the public sector environment with exceptional results.

Our Federal engagements have helped leaders generate major improvements in output and productivity while delivering a financial ROI of over 20:1. Our work in the FAA, Navy, Army, Air Force and OSD has resulted in improvements in areas such as readiness, maintenance, modernization, manpower, training, supply chain, strategic planning and decision-making, acquisition, performance measurement, cost reduction, and enterprise governance, to name several.

Today, Thomas Group employs a time-proven set of methodologies and tools through our seasoned professionals who have deep experience in driving change. Our trusted experts work shoulder-to-shoulder with the client team to jointly plan and deliver transformational improvements. We act with the same interests and urgency as the management team. We are persistent in meeting tight schedules and removing the barriers that constrain process performance.

Thomas Group professionals are trained to navigate difficult change management situations and facilitate rapid removal of cultural and business process barriers. We train, mentor and coach the client’s personnel to transfer learning and adopt good practices in real time.

Our approach to transforming government operations is geared to helping leaders attain these results:

Adjust strategies and operations to match changing missions…assuring customer demand is met
Accelerate the pace of needed change…often in half the time of traditional approaches
Increase the degree of performance improvements…often doubling internal expectations or more
Improve internal capabilities for continuous improvement…instilling a culture of rapid adaptation

Thomas Group Services

Every organization is on its own unique improvement path. Thomas Group engages as a close advisor to government leaders regardless of where they are on their particular path. Our approach enables us to generally provide any or all of the services described below, depending on the client’s needs.

Strategic alignment and deployment – Ensure that strategic plans support the emerging challenges and are executable throughout the organization
Business model innovation – Evaluate the current business model and determine the changes needed to support the organization’s objectives with the greatest simplicity, along with major performance improvement targets and barriers that must be removed
Operational strategy development – Construct time-phased project plans employing approaches and measurements that will bring the business model changes to fruition in the required time horizon
Accelerated execution of the operational strategies – Facilitate and drive client execution teams to reduce time-to-success by using acceleration techniques such as pilot projects, portfolio starts control and disciplined barrier removal teams

Small Business Partnering for Success

Thomas Group is a Small Business that provides services to help public sector leaders transform their operations. We operate either as a prime contractor, or as a sub-contractor on teams that provide comprehensive solutions to government clients. We team with capable partner firms having complementary capabilities to provide our clients with best-of-class solutions that are cost effective, robust and easy to deploy.