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 |
WGS (Wideband Global Satellite communications) is a high capacity communications system owned and controlled by the United States Space Force.
Demand for telecommunication services was determined by examining the NZDF's current practices and assembling bottom-up requirement for information bandwidth. The bottom-up demand was validated by a top down capture of the current and historical demand for information bandwidth.
An economic cost model was then produced that compared the economic cost of using the US Government's Wideband Global Satellite Communications system against the cost and risk for the NZDF of ad-hoc communications capability purchases on the spot market.
Individuals now working for Andcer assembled the various forecasts, provided an economic model, provided business cases to Cabinet for their approval. This project has cost approximately NZD 80 million, and is now in use by each branch of the NZDF.
The top three skills required and used for this project: