Projects with which we have been significantly involved with include:
| Defence quantitative risk analysis (QRA) Individuals now working for Andcer have determined the likely cost outcomes and associated cost risks for many major projects. Some of the larger... see below | Defence Fixed High Frequency Radio Replacement (cost modelling, and data discovery) The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is replacing its legacy domestic high frequency radio system. This system... see below | Defence light aircraft Beechcraft 200 (economic cost studies) The New Zealand Defence Force had a fleet of B200 aircraft (more). These aircraft were leased, and were mainly used for aircrew... see below |
| NZDF sizing of aircraft engine inventory (QRA-logistics) High end military aircraft engines are expensive. Too many engines on inventory incurs excessive costs and creates a capability that... see below | Telecommunications (regulatory cost model) Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) (now Chorus and Spark) provided their regulator, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, with a cost model showing the costs of... see below | NZDF high capacity mobile communications (demand and economic cost model) WGS (Wideband Global Satellite communications) is a high capacity communications system owned and controlled by the... see below |
| Defence policy (optimisation) Policy and policy related discussions are often performed without the benefit of quantifying the economic cost and benefit of numerical optimisation. Policy is... see below | Statistics: tools to detect fraud [the value is in the detail] Curiosity is probably the analyst's best friend in examining data for fraud or in any modelling. Analysis of data is about finding... see below | ACC organisational performance measurement At the time of this study, ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation) had approximately 33 main branches. Each branch was largely autonomous in its... see below |
| Police-organisational performance measurement The New Zealand Police have many Policing Areas distributed around New Zealand. This study examined the contribution of each Area to the overall... see below | Department of Labour (currently MBIE) Immigration Office Performance Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used as the base technique to assess Immigration Office organisational performance. ... see below |
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used as the base technique to assess Immigration Office organisational performance. This technique takes existing data, uses it to construct a "performance frontier". Best-in-class performance units are in this frontier. Other unit's performance is assessed based on these best-in-class units.
At the time the study was performed, the Department of Labour had approximately 15 overseas and domestic offices providing immigration services. The Department's data was used to inform an assessment of individual offices performance. In aggregate, through this work we identified the performance of the DoL immigration function. This evaluation provided the DoL with an objective assessment of its organisational performance, one that allowed for targeted intervention.
The work involved acquiring the client information, vetting the data for potentially anomalous results, normalising the data to correct for known differences between the studied areas, and then undertaking the DEA study. At the conclusion of the exercise, aggregate performance results are available as is a detailed story of each units performance and the gap that they would have to close to become best-in-class.
The top three skills required and used for this project: