Services

Rather than simply respond to data calls, The Lever Group advocates using federal budgeting requirements in the agencies favor. In Information Technology, the OMB CPIC cycle, properly applied, can assist drive federal agencies to fund the most valuable and successful IT programs, thereby maximizing their IT systems ability to support their mission.

The Lever Group provides three areas of services dedicated to working with federal managers to use the CPIC cycle to their advantage.

Strategy:
Strategy is about planning for the future. Your IT strategy is the road map to providing better services over the one to five years. We at The Lever Group help our clients continually improve the services they provide. We focus on developing transition strategies and strategic initiatives that focus on long term goals and mission improvements.

Portfolio Management:
Enterprise Portfolio management centers on managing your IT investments to obtain the best value. It looks at which programs are generating the greatest benefit, which can perform better, and which are underperforming. The goal is to create a portfolio of systems that continually provides the greatest return for your agency.

Performance Based Project Management:
Performance Based Management (PBM) focuses on maximizing the performance of one single investment. PBM focuses on ensuring that investment costs are controlled, risks are mitigated, and schedules monitored. The end result is that investments are delivered on time, on budget, and to specification.

The Lever Group is dedicated to helping federal project and program managers get the most out of their annual CPIC cycle. At highest level, we want managers to understand how effective capital planning helps them manage the wide variety of projects in their IT portfolio. At the project level, The Lever Group works with project managers to understand how to use best practices to make the CPIC work for them, not against. Federal Agencies are mission driven but must adhere to OMB requirements.