Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC)

Since 1990, legislative mandates have closely measured capital investments—including IT projects—against their outcomes. As a result, improved accountability of government executives for operational and management performance is critical. The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution for Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC solution) helps make it easier to align your investments with agency objectives by providing a single, integrated workspace for planning, managing, and assessing your entire portfolio.

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As a government executive, you face a level of fiscal scrutiny rarely seen in the private sector. Gathering, analyzing, and reporting capital investment data can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process that cuts further into your limited resources.

The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution for Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC solution) is a robust, customizable suite of IT investment management tools that you can configure to meet the needs of your agency, large or small. This solution supports managers through the entire project life cycle with a single, collaborative user interface for entering, tracking, and reviewing investment portfolios and for retrieving all information pertaining to an investment. Because the CPIC solution is based on familiar Microsoft technologies, your existing staff can, with minimal training, customize, deploy, and use it to track investments across your organization and beyond.

To meet your specific needs, the CPIC solution offers both minimal and full deployment. It delivers value in each phase of the investment life cycle: selection, control, and evaluation.

Selection

In the selection phase, powered by Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, you can use the CPIC solution to:

Review investment candidates against uniform screening criteria.
Select investments that meet minimum requirements and align with agency objectives.
Assess risks and benefits.
Prioritize projects and resources.

Control

In the control phase, agency executives and project managers can monitor projects to ensure that they are on schedule, within budget, and performing as expected. Using Microsoft Office Project 2007 and Project Server 2007, you can collaborate within or across agencies to:

Identify and contain potential project issues.
Realign resource commitments and schedules to reflect budget changes.
Update individual projects to manage changes and issues across the portfolio.
Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis to verify that the value accrued aligns with projections and, if necessary, take immediate corrective action.

Evaluation

Completed projects enter the evaluation phase, in which actual results are compared with selection phase projections. After assessing project performance against stated objectives, project managers can recommend steps to improve future investment performance.

If it's vital to government, it's mission critical to Microsoft.

The following Microsoft partners have experience implementing the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution for Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC):


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LMR Solutions is a full-service program and project management firm helping organizations evaluate and standardize on program and project management processes, training, Microsoft Project technologies, and staff augmentation. LMR Solutions can help you apply the CPIC solution to improve management of your capital investments.

QuantumPM LLC is a leader in project, program, and portfolio management consulting and solutions, creating pragmatic and valuable solutions that address real-world problems. They have helped hundreds of clients develop creative solutions that fit the way they work. Whether your organization performs operational work, project work, or a combination, QuantumPM can help you manage your capital investments with the Microsoft CPIC solution.

Robbins-Gioia, Inc. CPIC Central solution helps commercial and government executives formulate a balanced enterprise portfolio that takes into account risks, returns, and strategic goals. The firm also offers a Microsoft EPM implementation based on 26 years in the project/program and portfolio management business and nearly a decade of experience with the Microsoft Project platform. Robbins-Gioia's implementation approach addresses the people, process, and tools required to achieve a successful rollout of the EPM system in a realistic amount of time.

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