Making Solutions Come to Life: Integrating Designs into Mission Operations
Government programs are large and complex, and their customers and stakeholders are demanding and have different priorities and goals. Designing solutions to new challenges when programs have increased mission responsibilities or unexpected challenges is important. It gets hard when agencies need to incorporate these new processes, tools, and methods into their organizations and workflow without disrupting ongoing operations and while gaining the buy-in of the workforce that needs to make these solutions come alive.
To make bold ideas come to life, it is critical to design and customize plans to accommodate existing Federal processes, policies, and regulations. Plans may include change management and communications, stakeholder engagement, innovation techniques, or a focus on the customer experience. Plans must overcome barriers, anticipate risks, gain buy-in from champions and the workforce, and seek to integrate solutions that drive long-term success.
Integration is the discipline of strategically aligning and incorporating innovative solutions (people, policy, process, data, and technology) into a Government organization to accelerate lasting mission outcomes. At Arc Aspicio, we focus on building a community of integrators who use our integration services to analyze each client’s unique environment and build buy-in around solutions from the beginning. Our community intensively collaborates with stakeholders to identify areas for alignment and develops solutions with a mission-focused mindset. This creates a vision for the future and the path to get there.
Integrators are adaptable, flexible, and attentive. We hold ourselves accountable for the success of our solutions because consulting should not be a one size fits all business. Our accelerators and tools include lessons learned from other Government projects and are easily customized to new missions and clients. We invest in our consultants’ problem-solving skills and support them with methods and tools to analyze problems, maintain mission focus, and deliver innovative solutions that address nuanced challenges.
Our approach empowers stakeholders to become champions for their organization and create a lasting impact. Integration encourages consultants to use a mission lens while working closely with clients to identify needs and areas of misalignment. Our teams of integrators tailor solutions with a focus on stakeholder needs and mission understanding, taking action to bring innovative ideas to life.
The results of this effort are lasting, mission-focused solutions, increased cohesion across teams and tasks, and better outcomes for stakeholders.
