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Program Aerodynamics™

Complex program and transformation management that delivers

Program management has remained essentially unchanged for decades. Enter Program Aerodynamics™, a revolutionary next-gen methodology designed for complex projects in a fast-moving world. Reduce risk, anticipate challenges, and execute with confidence.

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Program Aerodynamics™ enables successful program and transformation delivery

Societies around the world are facing a growing set of complex environmental, economic, and social challenges. Meeting them requires major, often national, or even global programs.

Programs based on a fixed strategy can grow out of date, limiting flexibility and allocating resources less than optimally. Program management and delivery organizations are often static and built around vertical structures, or silos, whereas delivery is horizontal.

To answer these challenges, Deloitte has developed a flexible and responsive approach to major program delivery and transformation, called Program Aerodynamics™.

The 5 dimensions of Program Aerodynamics™

Program Aerodynamics™ is a unique approach that accelerates delivery of high-impact programs and transformation by enabling organizations to anticipate, shape, and manage change across the program’s lifecycle.

Predictive. Proactive. Resilient.

Responds to changing perspectives and environments, providing leadership with the ability to anticipate future needs, develop choices, assess options, and evaluate outcomes. Centered on simulation technology, it provides a radically different approach to program management.

  • Helps ensure leadership can forecast needs and define the multiple steps necessary to deliver transformational improvement.
  • Enables nonlinear development of solutions and faster responses to new challenges.

Dynamic. Rapid. Flexible.

A framework to define the key design components of a major program and manage the relationships between these components. Based on a set of single page templates, it helps manage evolving designs, improves resource reallocation, and ensures greater alignment across the program.

  • Ensures all the components of a program (including processes, technologies, workforce, and intellectual property) and the interconnections can be identified.
  • Allows leaders to set the design direction with enough precision to move forward but without imposing excessive structure or unnecessary detail.
  • Facilitates the rapid modification of the design as new information is received.

Action. Integration. Evaluation.

A program delivery process with a defined cadence of meetings creates a forward-looking, problem-solving, and aligned mindset. By focusing on building a delivery rhythm and transparency, the process accelerates program delivery and momentum.

  • Creates a forward-looking, problem-solving mindset to predict potential barriers and develop alternative delivery solutions.
  • Enables leaders to create momentum and rhythm, and to continuously make progress even in the most challenging of environments.

Transformation. Innovation. Optimization.

Delivers digital capabilities to shape the designs of solutions and manage program delivery. Leverages technologies such as new sensors, digital twins, and control towers to design more precise impactful solutions, which can be delivered with greater flexibility. These tools help de-risk design choices and support accelerated delivery.

  • Empowers leaders to leverage new digital capabilities including sensors, shared data platforms, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, digital twins, and digital program controls.
  • Supports simulation to improve strategic decision-making.
  • Enhances control of complex delivery programs.

Adaptive. Cohesive. Pre-emptive.

An approach that can help ensure that at each stage of the program life cycle, the right roles, skills, capabilities, and leadership styles are in place. In addition, human system design (HSD) leverages the flexible architecture design to help ensure we can pivot the program management structure to respond to evolving requirements.

  • Studies the optimum individual skills, team behavior, and organizational structure to deliver the program.
  • Supports the migration of the delivery organization.

Program Aerodynamics™: Deloitte’s unique approach for the world’s largest and most complex programs

Real-world impact: Program delivery success stories

<h3>UK government COVID-19 testing program</h3> </p> <h4>The challenge:</h4> <p>In March 2020 the United Kingdom had to develop a full national testing capability to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic across all demographics. The testing regime had to provide rapid and accurate results using technology that was unproven. Starting from a base of zero, the testing capability had to scale rapidly to cover the whole population.</p> <h4>The results:</h4> <ul> <li><p>Stood up more than 1,000 test sites—89 drive-through test sites, 510 walk-through test sites—and 500 mobile test units.</p></li> <li><p>Designed, managed, and delivered the bulk delivery and collection of more than 85 million test kits to care homes.</p></li> <li><p>Runs a digital portal that ships more products daily than almost any online retailer on Black Fridays.</p></li> </ul>

<h3>Crossrail program transformation</h3> </p> <h4>The challenge:</h4> <p>Crossrail had been built as an engineering program; however, the technical complexities of integrating multiple signaling and train technologies had not been tried before. With costs increasing, and the nature of a high-profile national infrastructure program, high levels of public and political scrutiny were a constant feature.</p> <h4>The results:</h4> <ul> <li><p>Supported the opening of a new line connecting 41 stations and completing 200 million passenger journeys each year.</p></li> <li><p>Set up the program controls to help the transport organization navigate complex regulatory requirements.</p></li> <li><p>Rearchitected operating model of program to account for full complexity of creating 42 km of new rail tunnels under a large city.</p></li> <li><p>Set up a new function that managed the handover from construction to management.</p</li></ul>

The Deloitte Difference

Early intervention

Our experienced team manages risks and maximizes opportunities by anticipating hurdles and responding to challenges with flexibility and speed.

Resilience

Our measured approach allows us to deliver successful outcomes and key business transformation solutions, even under volatile and uncertain conditions.

Connected teams

We connect multidisciplinary teams of people to create a collaborative environment that leverages diverse backgrounds and skills.

Impact

We create ambitious solutions, minimize risk, and accelerate program delivery to maximize benefits for our clients and greater society.

Digital tools

Our proprietary tools and accelerators allow us to drive overall digital maturity and revolutionize the delivery of large and complex transformations.

Data-based decision-making

Intelligence-led decision-making interrupts the chain of command to enable efficient decisions at the point of most relevant information.

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