BRAC is a highly complex organizational transformation and is extremely stressful on people, processes, and systems. BRAC is also an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for agencies to re-new, re-create and re-focus their operations. Military organizations must respond with balanced approach to ensure continuity of operations while effectively managing the BRAC transformation.

Celerant has developed a tailored program management toolkit to assist installations and other military organizations impacted by BRAC to harmonize multiple workstreams; fine-tune their organization; and optimize future performance.

Creating sustainable change is a challenge in the Federal environment. Too often, Federal agencies invest great time and effort to create new processes and capabilities, only to see short-term benefits of such efforts erode over time. Celerant believes that behavior change is the key to sustainability.

Through our Closework® methodology, our consultants work shoulder-to-shoulder with agency staff to embed change throughout the organization. We focus on transferring the tools and knowledge to agency staff required to sustain improved processes, and create management systems for agency leaders that contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

Configuration Management (CM) is a growing issue for U.S. Military Services and other Federal agencies that maintain large capital assets. As funding constraints postpone system replacement, agencies are extending service lives through modifications, upgrades, and engineering change orders. The growth in such configuration changes places increasing pressure on existing CM processes and contributes to the proliferation of non-standard configurations, impacting safety, durability, and maintainability.

Celerant is working with the Army aviation community to improve CM transparency across multiple levels of maintenance, and to establish a more effective process for assessing the impact of configuration changes on life cycle performance.

With energy prices spiraling to unprecedented levels, Federal agencies have a strong incentive to minimize energy usage across all facilities and installations, including office space and industrial / operational facilities. Years ago, Celerant developed a disciplined energy management process and toolkit through its work with the energy-intensive chemical industry, where we regularly achieve energy savings of 10% - 20% or more.

Celerant has adapted its energy management capability to serve its other commercial and Federal clients. We can assist agencies in establishing a sustainable culture of heightened energy awareness and conservation, while helping you to achieve significant reductions in energy usage and cost.

Federal agencies often lack a full understanding of the costs associated with specific agency programs and initiatives – budgets often tell only a part of the story.

Celerant employs a wide array of financial tools such as activity-based costing (ABC), return-on-investment (ROI) analysis, and parametric cost modeling to provide clients with revealing insights into resource allocation and efficiency. We also focus on assessing program outcomes and determining the extent to which such outcomes contribute to the agency mission and goals.

Federal clients call on Celerant to assist them with OMB PART reviews, and agency executives with recommendations for improving the cost effectiveness of agency programs.

In recent years, Federal agencies have spent billions of dollars to develop and implement standard enterprise IT systems in finance and accounting, personnel, supply chain, and other key functions. However, agencies frequently do not full advantage of the powerful functionality of these enterprise systems. As a result, Federal organizations have often struggle to realize the promised benefits of these massive investments.

We believe agencies have become preoccupied with the technical aspect of these complex implementations, and have not placed enough focus on the difficult work of thinking through how these systems should be leveraged to transform agency operations.

Celerant has extensive experience and expertise in working with clients to fine-tune system configurations, reporting tools, and business processes to ensure that your agency achieves the full benefits of its IT investments.

Federal agencies are increasingly challenged to become leaner and meaner, to do more with less, and to become more citizen-focused and responsive. To meet these challenges, agencies must eliminate organizational stovepipes and fragmented or redundant processes. Celerant uses our Closework® methodology and Lean Six Sigma principles and tools to identify inefficient processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and build integrated, streamlined processes that fully align Federal organizations to their mission and objectives.