Lone Star StraTable

According to the Lone Star website, "StraTable℠ business consulting services using predictive and analytical models is a matrix-based model that incorporates the power of the processing engine. StraTable assists in providing enhanced decision analysis for our clients. It has proven to be a highly effective tool for tasks including: Options Analysis, Price to Win, Performance Trades, Risk Comparisons, Analysis of Alternatives, Competitive Positioning, and Others.

The StraTable℠ matrix provides a means to quickly generate considerable quantitative insight across multiple options for problems with many variables - considering even multiple selections within each variable. It does this by concentrating a rich set of alternatives into a "Menu Style" palette based on what is possible and desired. Depending on the importance/relevance of specific items within an exercise, the number of columns/major elements can vary; although there is no upper or lower limit. Once a basic model is built, any chosen Option combination can be evaluated in a matter of seconds to at most a minute or two. It is easy to modify in real time and therefore especially useful in quickly developing a multi-dimensional Analysis-of-Alternatives (AOA) space. Capabilities include:

• A Process/Tool that easily quantifies and assesses different options (Alternatives, Strategies, Competitors) 
• Multiple Options can be easily defined and documented 
• The number of possible Options and the potential variables are only bounded by the specific problem at hand - not by the tool 
• The StraTable℠ can also simultaneously support multiple Cost, Risk, and Performance layers as additional dimensions that are all evaluated as each Option is defined. 
• The process can be accomplished by a single individual, but is especially powerful when options are considered in a group setting of Stake Holders and/or Subject Matter Experts"

Processes Supported

• Business Case Analysis (BCA)
• Risk Management
• Other  

Departments Associated

• Unknown

Integrated Product Support Elements Addressed

• Design Interface
• Product Support Management

Disclaimer

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